UFO's and neon clothes!

Well what an exciting week for Duke and Joe! They're only on the cover of Fortean Times for flip-sake!!!!

My friend Etienne was working on an illustrated cover but decided the boys were cartoon-like enough to pose for real!! They were thrilled...but wondered why they weren't on every page!!! Don't know where they get that ME ME ME thing from...probably their father I reckon.....

News just in, we got our Tonite animal print hoodies and t shirts in and they are a beautiful thing to see and wear.....in grey and neon yellow with Fergus' inimitable rock n roll late 70's-style artwork....we've missed Tonite and all things Fergadelic!


Emma came by to visit me on Saturday and as usual I roped her into a photo-shoot! Of course we had to go for a customary rose at the Coach (and share a traditional chocolate and more avant-garde banana eclair), where we ran into Superduck and got into an arguement about the relevance of figurative art in the modern world......it's very high-brow this end of Old Compton St I tell you....

My ladies have been taking heed of their VIP status and snapping up the 25% discounts on offer to the mailing list, what a great time it is to snag a bargain summer dress for a fraction of the original price, here I am showing off our new Princess Tina brooches on some of said sale items....




I'm off to see John Barry tonite - yippeee!

Madame xx

Freestylin' down south....

What fun we had!

The Look at the Lost Society on Thursday was such a blast! Paul Gorman came into work last Saturday to discuss finer details but we all got totally sidetracked by Rita, who I hadn't seen in ages...

She's so lovely and always steals the show...good job she didn't turn up on the nite, you know my history of being upstaged by dogs!

Birthday boy Michael came down to show me his new birthday trainers with Lucy and Sefton on Saturday too...they'd all been having a tea-party but didn't want me to be left out.

Snazzy!
Here's a very romantic picture of the bride and groom-to-be:

Is that a banana on your t shirt or are you just pleased to see me?

So, I know you all want to know what went down down south at the Lost Society on thursday nite....it is SO worth the schlep, and if you don't come next time you're just lazy lazy lazy!!! First of all the venue is so fabulous, a barn that was a hang out for hippies in the 70's and still has all the old beams, a little courtyard which is a joy now the summer's here and a STAGE which pleased the Babitz's no end!

Max and Pippa warmed up proceedings playing as eclectic a mix as ever,

and All About Eve Babitz did a song every half hour, and if you're a fan of their George and Dragon evenings you'll know this is their unique, trademarked format - very avant-garde!

All wonderful so far....then things got H.O.T! Kevin Rowlands hit the decks playing a blinding set, old soul classics, Bowie, Roxy Music and began singing over the fade-outs.......and as you know I don't need much encouragement to have a go as it were, and when he invited me to "freestyle" duet-style with him up I hopped! This lady knows no shame! It was the best fun...especially to the tracks I didn't know - you had to be there!

Here we are giving it some! And here's me hoggin the mic!

That's the first time that's EVER happened I assure you!!!
I gave Paul Gorman a few tips on his djing technique....

....gave Nathaniel a quick cuddle in between my vox-spots!!....

...gave Sefton a supportive squeeze while warning him not to smile too hard...

...watched Jasmine dance for a bit....

...had a photo face-off with Caz....

....had a laugh with the bearded ones....

...oh I could go on and on about the good-times but I fear you might get too jealous.....

So instead I'll show you a picture of Michelle's Birthday cake!

And what a cake it was.....and within 10 minutes Mentorn had expertly carved it into THIS!

I can tell you it tasted DIVINE! But by then the boys and I had been for a picnic on Clapham Common with the Gormans, finishing up with double scoop ice cream cornets, grazed on mounds of mini-eclairs, tarts,not to mention croissants at Michelle's do BEFORE the grand entrance of the cake! There's only so much sugar a body can take.....

Here is Duke hitting the sugar wall (not in the Sheena Easton sense! More in the euphoria brought on by excess consumption sense!). I haven't eaten anything sweet since although I do find myself this evening experimenting with rhubarb fool.....

Oh yeah, Jasmine had her hair cut and it was as shiny as GLASS!!! Lookit!!!


madame..xxx

P.S. This week our sale starts early for the mailing list members!!!! As ever, just mutter "madame" at the checkout and you'll get a scorching 20% off all A.P.C., Sonia by Sonia Rykiel and Eley Kishimoto!!!!! Run like the wind while stocks last!!!! xxx