JE VEUX TU VOIR - Yelle

I lost the will to blog....

....for a couple of weeks there. How British of me to be so affected by the weather but sad to say I was. I felt like Chicken Licken waiting for the doom-laden sky to fall on my head!

I think I'm over it now...which is why it's always important to remember....

Reasons to be cheerful:

1. We now do bespoke name-necklaces! And I've already got one!!! Here's mine....they can be custom-made to suit the personality of the wearer, so instead of an "o" you could have a flower or a mother-of-pearl heart for instance, or as I did, a little shard of coral (one of my favourite colours in the world, especially when it's a YSL lipstick!) instead of an "i" or a star for an "a", in fact whatever the hell you want! We've done a Mel with a star for an "e"! The idea is to mix the gold and silver theme up too, so the letters only come in silver but you can have on a gold, silver or oxidised silver chain if you wanted to go a bit goth....We're taking orders now, a silver chain name necklace will set you back £69 and a gold on £89, half up-front please and half on delivery, allow 2 weeks for them to be made up! Get creative people!


2. Jack, the student studying fashion in Brighton who helps me in the shop sometimes over the summer hols, and I have a mutual obsession with Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City books. I read them when they came out I hate to admit cos that makes me ANCIENT, but anyway, he's just written another one called "Michael Tolliver Lives", and I had mentioned this to Jack and the fact that he had been appearing in various bookshops for readings and signings etc...(Jack's only 20 and I've found myself waxing lyrical about all kinds of counter-culture gays, your John Waters', your Andy Warhols, your Armistead Maupins, like some old friend of Truman Capote's or something...)...anyhoo, there he was wandering through the streets of Brighton and who should be signing that night but Armistead Maupin HIMSELF!!! Long and the short of it is he only got the author to sign a book to me as follows "To Pippa at Maison B" !!!! Made my month!!! I'm trying not to race through it too quickly, to savour it, but I CAN"T!!! All the old friends are there....if you loved the Tales of the City's, it's COMPULSORY reading!!!


3. Emma's husband Paul took part in the shoot for Katharine Hamnett's website which Duke and Joe also popped by for, and although when we arrived late in the day, he looked his usual scrubbed-self, earlier in the day, he'd got a little experimental with a little make-up and edgy styling.....and he sent me a shot!!! How fantastic is this?! Paul love's a garish jacket or a pink trouser, but here it's like he's discovered an alter ego - who sweats glitter and goes out on the town in his smalls!!!! Never send me a pic like this if you don't want it to end up public!!!


4. Duke and Joe did a shoot for i-D!!! A fashion shoot if you please and Henry Holland made special "Hang on a min, that ki-D's a twin!" t shirts for the occasion which they were allowed to keep!!! Look out for the kid's issue in Octber!


5. I get to dj at the next Look Presents...on Thursday night AND Pam Hogg's djing and performing AND Poppy and the Jezebels are playing. You've GOT to get down there, it's like a continental oasis down south, with the best talent, the BEST cocktails and it's once a month. This one's "Girls' Night Out" but boys are also permitted...


6. Two of my best friends, Jonathan and James, got married at the weekend, and we partayed from 10am til the wee hours. So much laughing, dancing and champagne with your favourite people will banish the blues in a second! Great potato salad too!


7. Bev and I have been going to Power Plates! If the image of us two in the nearest thing to workout gear we can pull together out of our decidedly un-casual wardrobes, vibrating with teeth a-chattering doesn't make you break into an involuntary smile then there's no hope for you.......!

Cheerful lists are a very good idea. I've already thought of loads more, I'll save them for another rainy day......

madame x

MADAME IN PARIS

Pippa, Emma and Max are in Paris for Le Weekend on a buying trip at APC and a shopping blitz at FiFi Chachnil. The track is Une Bande de Mecs Sympas from TTC's album 3615. Watch out for the rabbit!!

Quentin Crisp envy...

Oh look what my friend Paul Frecker bought at Bonham's the other day! Only Quentin Crisp's ACTUAL typewriter!!!! The very one he wrote The Naked Civil Servant on!!! Now you can call me an old fag hag if you want but i was tres tres jealous!!!

There's even a note from Mr Quentin Crisp, stately homo himself!!!

Lots has happened since I last wrote to you...Paris was great, APC ROCKED! Emma and I even made one of our fabulous movies to record the events of the day.... APC, underwear and rose - what more could you wish for in a day trip!

More from me soon, I'm djing with Emma at a Blondes vs Brunettes night on Friday- better make sure my roots are up to scratch! More Babitz news soon and of course we're busy busy busy with the sale, still lots of bargains to be had before the winter stock hits the rails! If you get a chance, have a gander at the exhibition upstairs in the tearoom, it's Matthew Buckham's show-within-a-show "10 Heroes", here's Tania giving good eek on top of some of the paintings....

Get yourself some art and a frock for goodness sake!!!

Meanwhile, re-read "The Naked Civil Servant"......madame xxxx

ANOTHER PARTY

Oh and I forgot this party too [as modelled by the gorgeous Philippa Cardinal]...

SATURDAY 21 JULY
7 YEAR GLITCH v DO IT!
Room 1 DJ ASSAULT / STARKEY / RUFF SQWAD / SKULL JUICE / 7 YEAR GLITCH / PRANCEHALL / LOUIS ENCHANTE
Room 2 FAGGATRONIX / MATTHEW !WOWOW! / JO APPS / G.U.N.I.T / REKLESS / EASYCHORD
at CORSICA STUDIOS (elephant and castle)
11 PM - 5 AM
£7 / £5 concessions

Even though I'm sure Madame can still "do it" without toppling off her stillies, I don't think she will be coming along to this. But Paul is DJing [7 Year Glitch] and I will definitely be working out what to wear for the whole week before.

And here is a funny photo diary Bitch Ass Darius made once when he booked DJ Assault to play for him.

And if you still don't know who DJ Assault is, he made these following tracks: Ass and Titties, Asses Jiggalin' and Titties Wigglin', Hoes Get Naked, Dick By The Pound etc etc. I think you get the picture!

xx Emma

BLONDE vs BRUNETTE 13 July 2007

Pippa and I will be DJing at Roxy's Blonde vs Brunette party on Friday the 13th. Of course we both know there is no neccessary competition between a blonde [of course Pippa is natural!] and a brunette cause we are both fit in our own ways... I mean I have LOADS of personality - but we are going to represent!!! All the DJ's are going to be foxy women and you can come represent your team, or come in a wig, or just come to perv on the babes.

xx Emma

COINCIDENTALLY PARIS!

I haven't shown my face on the Maison B blog for a loooon time. So here is a report from me [but let's rewind backwards] with all the news I got to bring.

Last weekend, I was in Paris and as a happy co-incidence, so were Max and Pippa buying for the A.P.C. collection! So it was omlettes and Rosé all round. Pippa and I were DV camera's all up in each others faces cause we are in the middle of making another video for Madame. But here is the real co-incidence: of all the shops in Paris and all the things we could buy - Pippa and I both had gone past the same shop at different times and ogled the same jewellery. Only I was the only one who bought it. Pippa was too gutted for words. I let her have a little turn of them in the A.P.C. showroom. But not too long.

We were also on a mission to find Fifi Chachnil. It isn't on Rue de Chambon any more. And the number isn't the one listed in the Time Out guide. On a MISSION I actually stopped a family with a young grumpy looking baby and a father with bored death eyes to get the mother to listen to the new number on the phone for the new shop and write it down for us... It was worth it! 40% off in Fifi Chachnil!!



Okay and so the week before that, my friends Jacob [from Paperrad] and David were in town with their band Extreme Animals. They are touring round Europe. The first gig was at the Old Blue Last where DJ Brain and Silverlink asked Cassette Playa and I to have a booty dance off challenge. I won. Don't cry Cassette Playa. You can share my glory.


Hmmm... The week before that, it was my friend Thugly's birthday. Thugly is one of the 7 Year Glitch crew. He had cocktails at the Hilton. Here is a pic of internet thug and epicenter of the UK grime scene, Prancehall, ordering off menu and getting one of the most fabulous strawberry daquaris I've seen.


But at risk of being thrown in the Big Brother diary room - maybe that drink is a bit gay? Look at his pinky finger.

The coolest thing that has happened though is Paul B. Davis had his exhibition at Seventeen gallery on Kingsland Road for the last month. It was a lot of new media, computer and video art. Here is a picture of the video Paul made in collaboration with Jacob Ciocci which is in essence two YouTube videos mixed together not using a video editing software, but actually editing the source at code [like all the 000's and 111's and 101's etc] to 'beatmatch' musically and visually Rhiannas "Umbrella" and The Cranberries "Zombie".

It was really cool - the audio mixed perfectly while the visuals were faces of the two different artist morphing into the other in a sea of pixels and distortion.

Okay - so enough from me, I got to get editing video from Paris! Nice talking to you all again!

xx Emma