WAS IT WORTH IT

I have known Pippa for years and I only found this out on Saturday.

Was It Worth It? Pet Shop Boys



Watch in at 01:40 and see if you can pick out Pippa Brooks with the bows in her hair!

xx Emma

GOOD TIMES

Pippa and I knock another VAT return on the head - this time in record time - and then go have a niec treat over at Maison B to celebrate. This is our new bestie fave.

Then we got back to the office and worked out how to use iMovie and Madame has made her first YouTube video that I hope she blogs here soon!

Later on we had a quiet rosé [hohoho yes I know Pippa...] at The Coach and Horses with Max. Then who should roll up but the old 7 Year Glitch crew with DJ ASSAULT!!

Brains and DJ Assault


Lektrogirl, DJ Assault and Philippa Cardinal


DJ Assault wid all dem hoes. Scratch that, I mean Madame.

I tried all night to explain to all and sundry who DJ Assault is. I can't believe people don't know. If you ever heard any ghetto tech or booty bass or in DJ Assault's own words "accelerated funk" then it was probably him. Or DJ Godfather. But DJ Assault has got beef with him cause DJ Godfather is only in the game for the money [apparently]. As I can't sing it all to you, I can only say go here and buy a few MP3's for .99c My personal favourites are Sex On The Beach and Hoes Get Naked.

We tried to explain to DJ Assault what Showerface meant but I'm not sure he really got it. He was more interested in the fruit juice cocktails Pippa was having made for him at the bar. I heard he only drank milk but apparently these days he has switched to fruit juice cause he has to watch his physique.

On another note - YOU HAVE TO GET INTO MAISON B ASAP! The new SONIA is there too along with all the APC. I'm about to go shopping. There isn't gonna be a lot left once I've rinsed the place!!

xx Emma

Oh, and before I go.....

Have to brag cos last nite me and Superduck went to see John Waters' new movie at the Bfi, followed by a q and a with the man himself!!!! Words cannot describe how great I think he is, and this is a crappy picture but it's the only proof I got!.....

....and I keep forgetting to post this video by Von Sudenfed which stars Woo, the fabulous Jeanette and another bearded lady who I don't know, I think it's a great song, HRH Mark E Smith of course on vocals, something to watch while you miss me! (Not leaving 'til monday morning, I'll probably find something else to blog about before then!)


madame xxx

Oh, and also....

Susie from Style bubble asked me to contribute a week of outfits to her wonderful blog! Check it out!

http://www.stylebubble.typepad.com

madame x

Woo, Banksy and Peru..

Is it too soon for another blog about drag queens??!!! I just asked one of my ladies Minette and she said "never too soon" so here goes....

My good friend Louise (who I met at the Look talk Max and I did at LCF last year and ended up contributing to her forthcoming book, more details nearer the time!) and I went to see Jonny Woo's latest drag drama at the Soho Theatre last night. I think it's on for another couple of nights and is HILARIOUS! A tight little script revolving around Dallas and ending up with the best Golden Girls sendup you'll see in a long time, Woo's Sue Ellen is frighteningly authentic and abandoned!

Then...there we were having an aftershow recap and a snifter when I bumped into a lovely chap I once struck up a conversation with on the Eurostar on my way back from an APC buying trip. Louise and I had just said we'd like to try to catch the CoCo Peru show and there he was with 2 spare tickets for that very show, starting in half an hour. Two drag shows in one night! Had Christmas come early?! Coco is a real trooper, singing show tunes with tweaked lyrics and doing a stand up "monoluuge" which took us through her Bronx childhood as a girly boy and eventual drag queen.....lovely, see it!

Banksy vs Warhol is on at the Hospital, of course I wasn't invited to the show, but on my way back from my power plates class, I noticed his Marilyn behind it's own little red rope...

Talking of power plates, my beautiful friend Nahid who you will have seen modelling the APC is the reason I've started going. Who could fail to be inspired just by looking at her?! This is her at her desk at Good Vibes on Betterton St, one of her growing power plates empire. I love a workout that 1. is only 25 minutes long 2. you don't have to wear TRAINERS for 3. you can do in full make-up!

Bev and I are hooked without being obsessed...you should try it, it really takes care of business!

I'm going away next week to a Victorian water tower I think in Norfolk which looks like a tiny circular castle!

See you on my return.....madame xxxx

APC Grrrrrrrrls...

Put the right bunch of mates on a rooftop with their favourite A.P.C. outfits from this autumn/winter and this is what you get!!!! London at magic hour with a few Maison Bertaux cherry cakes for sustenance! Pick your favourite outfit and come and have a mince in front of the mirror yourself!



There's more to come....let's call this episode 1......and let's marvel at Lektrogirl's editing skills - she's getting tooooo good!!!

madame xxx

WHAT DID YOU DO THIS WEEKEND?

I'm saying the weekend started on Thursday night and I don't feel the need to write more - you know the old saying - a picture speaks a thousand words. Here is the lastest home movie from the Shop At Maison B gang about nothing in particular, just hanging out.


XX Emma

EXCITEMENT PLUS

OMG today was awesome cause I went into Soho to meet at the Shop with everyone else to pull off the fastest roof top shoot with all the new season APC that has hit the shop this week. We did the shoot on Bev's roof - she lives on Charing Cross Road - and the views are PHENOMENAL!! Nelson's Column, Big Ben, The Wheel and every cute little chimney stack in between. So amazing. YOU ARE ALL GOING TO DIE when you see the pics by the shop's bestie fav photographers Sarah Lee and Bev herself! Afterwards, we went and had a drink together at the Coach and Horses which was not only a fab chillax for all of us, but for me it was the total total unwind required after the super hectic work I have had going at my other job.


A gang of beautiful women.

Chilli, like the coolest dog ever. She barked at all the loser drunk men with floppy hair, pink shirts and pinker cheeks.

Cute Pippa, actually wearing an A.P.C. smock dress. You will die for these. And there isn't going to be that many left - now that Pippa has one herself in every colour.

Two models and a photographer.

That is not J-Lo even though it looks a bit like it, with Bev who has great pins and lovely feet to go with them.

ANYWAY - you are going to have to hang on a few more days while we capture video, download photos and get film processed before you can check out the work we did tonight - or you can race into Shop At Maison B and nab the pieces you want before anyone else does! [When I saw it all, I screamed! For real! Ask Pippa.]

xx Emma

All The P's!

Well the girls' night out at Paul Gorman's Look Presents...at the Lost Society was p-p-p-perfect!!!

Those nights always feel like your friends houseparty with special guests, it's wonderful! Also I had the honour of being billed as one of the special guests as I was djing, so even better!

Here's Paul giving as good as the girls, bare breasts n all, with Caz, me and Pam Hogg:

Poppy and the Jezebels played a fabulous set of their dreamy pop songs, cor they dress really well too!! They look like little Biba models and they've just released a mini-album "Follow me Down" which I would recommend you buy ASAP! Here they are with Pam:

And talking of Pam....The Hoggdoll not only performed some of her dark, rockabilly-tinged songs giving her gold-clad ALL, she then rocked the house with a dj set that ticked all my boxes!!! You've gotta love this woman!

Having planned an early exit due to fatigue I found myself dancing myself dizzy! Mark Eley was a latecomer who made up for it quicksmart and Superduck even shuffled his brogues after threatening a no-show!

Caz is one of the best dancers I know and the way she was shaking her tush I couldn't resist!

Here's Paul and her front:

Max left before the snapping frenzy but as usual played up a storm...hadn't realised he was such a fan of Blank Generation unitl now....enough said about that Mr-Richard Hell never heard of him-Karie!
In fact Mark will be djing at the next one which is the first Thursday in September (the 6th) and All About Eve Babitz are rumoured to be playing so I know you won't want to miss that!

That's about all my news except to say the AW APC has just arrived-you'll love love love it!-and Duke learned to ride without his stabilisers at the weekend....

.....madame xxxxx

SUMMER SORE THROAT

Praise the Lord that Summerish weather is finally here! I've been able to wear my Jessica Ogden / APC Madras without a white cotton vest underneath and flounce about in all my vintage cotton party dresses without a tower of knitwear on top as well. Sadly however, I've been working too hard [9 days straight] and ended up in bed this morning with a throat of FIRE. But there is always a plus side - time to blog!

The last 9 days have had some party time in between. One of the girls at Katharine Hamnett is leaving on maternity leave so we had a big dinner at Julie's to celebrate the exciting times ahead for her. We decided we all have to turn up with mad hair cause Jo has the craziest hair of all.

Katharine Hamnett was able to live her Amy Winehouse hair obsession for one night only.
I was sad when we brushed it out the next day. I loved it.
N.B. I have to say I drank far to many French 75 Champagne cocktails that night and had dry mouth the whole of the next day and it was tough going reconciling bank statements AND answering the Katharine Hamnett phones. Particularly as I had been drinking the same cocktails the night before at the Hawksmoor.

I found a gang of old photos too:

Paul found these old nudie pics when he was still living in Chicago. I think they are so beautiful - there are three or four of them all together all as lovely as this. And I can't help but look at her and think that is Madonna wasn't a pop star, she might just look like this.

And do you recognise anyone here?:

This is from when Pippa came to Hamburg in 2003 with me and did two shows, one at the Golden Pudel and another on the MS Stubnitz. The boys were still little babies I think! Of course, they were not dancing around in the background, they were safely at home. I have to say, Pippa looks about 19 in this picture.

I wish I had got to go to the last party of Paul Gorman's Pippa was performing at - I will have to get all the gossip off her on Saturday when I see her next. I am also looking forward to all the new stuff coming into Maison B for Autumn/Winter - I had a mini snoop in Selfridges at the SONIA stuff but didn't buy anything cause I know that Maison B prices are always a bit cheaper, and Pippa and Max always get madder stuff. And I'm DYING for the A.P.C. on it's way. And of course all that means is we are gonna be making some more videos and doing more shoots to show you all the new stuff - which has got to be the best fun of ALL!

xx Emma

Bona Drag

Anyone new to my blog might get the impression from this post that I roam the streets and pore the listings for drag drag drag!!!!......and they'd be right!!!!! This has been a week of the cream of the crop from the old school Lavinia Co-op to hottest drag star of the moment, Johnney Woo's "Night of a Thousand Jay Aston's" which is on for the rest of the week at the Soho Theatre! Go!!!!

In my self appointed role of educating my ladies and gents, The Bloolips were London's answer to San Francisco's Cockettes (for homework there's a wonderful Cockettes documentary available on DVD, Sylvester himself was once a member!), in a way, in fact they may take umbrage at the comparison but a raggle taggle, creative, hilarious bunch of trannies on acid who put on glitter encrusted reviews in San Francisco in the 70's, but somehow I think they're the nearest thing London ever had. And one of the founder members of the Bloolips, Lavinia Co-op was appearing at Bistrotheque last week, so for a shot of the old school, Paul, Lucy, Sefton and I went east to see her. As luck would have it the fabulous Betty Bourne (another Bloolips founder member) was in the audience. Now, I've followed Betty's career in slightly stalkerish detail, from collaborations with Neil Bartlett at the Drill Hall, through his incredible performance as Quentin Crisp to an internet geezer-type character at the Soho Theatre....so of course photo-ops all round!!!!
Here's Lucy and me with Lavinia Co-op:

And with the legendary Betty Bourne:

Who, incidentally Lucy had the honour to be the dresser for in a production at the Donmar. Imagine! Whenever Lucy arrived at work, Betty would say "Hello Fancypants!", what anecdotes! What rouge! What a great job!

So, then last night was "Johnney Woo's Night of a Thousand Jay Astons" at the Soho Theatre. To fill you in, the life of the pretty one out of Buck's Fizz, as lipsynced to the back-catalogue of the Eurovision's favourite pop band! Hi-frigging-larious!!!! Also, the lovely Richardette our favourite landlord from the George and Dragon is one of the Jays so we were showing front-row support! In our party were two of the most photogenic ladies I know, Liliana (if you read this blog, you probably feel like you know her already!)

and Kat a.k.a. Dexy who has her own show on the Sumo channel you've gotta check out...

We had such a laugh, here's a few highlights.....



You need to get down there I think it's on til Saturday......

Madame x