Fantasies realised......
Ok, I've got a new camera now but had no time to blog as i've been too busy living it up!! OMG not once but TWICE this week I met heroes of mine.....first on a more sedate and high-brow note at the V & A on Saturday i only met the genius behind Biba, Barbara Hulanicki!!!! I missed most of the lecture as i was trailing around the LCF building looking for the 60's lecture...wondering why i was met with blank stares and then Hannah our Saturday girl at the cake shop rang me and told me it was at the V & A...what a twat!!! (me not her) At her insistence I jumped in a cab across town and i'm so glad she shook me out of my bad mood because I arrived in time for tea, watched Paul Gorman's contribution to the proceedings and then seized my opportunity for a photo-op with the woman who's probably influenced my taste since an ill-informed brown lipstick purchase as a teenager and still lingers in an obsession with crepe widow dresses with puffed shoulders, berry hues, smokey eye make-up and platforms be they concealed or cork. I have a beautiful pair of over the knee suede sexy high heeled original Biba boots which I picked up at camden when i was a student and still wear today and a high-waisted crepe pair of trousers that make me feel soooooo glamorous!
She was lovely too which is always a relief when you meet someone you've admired for so long and was even kind enough to say she liked my look!!!! MY look!!!
The same night I'd just locked up at the cake shop and if you've ever seen me do that you know what a production it is - trap-door and all - and walked headlong into Simon and Gordon from Obey who'd brought the womenswear designer and two other lovely guys from Obey America to check out the store. So I turned right around and we crammed back down into the shop which I think they liked pretty well, and ended up taking a whole load of stupid photos of ourselves before they headed off into Soho......
Did I mention my friends Ian and Leah who now live in Lisbon now came by last week? Look how effortlessly chic they look together....makes you sick! Not really.....and they brought their friend Sandra down too who's in an amazing band called New Connection. Her voice is MENTAL in the best way, we were listening to Lolipop in the shop....which rhymes....
Now there's only a few bands that drive me to distraction and I have Sasha from Hyde SK to thank for turning me on to Eagles of Death Metal, who are one of my favourite bands IN THE WORLD!!!!!! If you haven't checked them out GO ON!!!! They were playing a Ladies Only night on monday at the Raymond Revue Bar - how genius is that?! - surely the brainchild of singer Jesse who's a one for the ladies to say the least. I went with Alex who'd never heard them before and had had a pretty shit day, and got swept along (even onto the stage!!!) with their fantastic sexy sweaty infectious fabulousness!!!! Jesse's like a cross between a 70's porn star/clone and a sleazy greaser which equals sex on legs in my tiny mind, with a sort of falsetto voice...you've got to check them out they're so amazing. Can i say that a ladies only gig is the best night out ever!!
Lots of hotties down the front shaking their hairdos, loads of screaming and singing along and no aggro AT ALL!!! Best gig i've been to oooooooh in AGES, haven't had as much fun since Peaches dry-humped me on stage.....
This is me and Alex with Jesse, pleased to meet you! Maybe I was a bit too excited and squeezed him too hard, but that's what rock n roll is all about right?????
Alex as usual looks beautiful, calm, and not at all like a nutter, in her picture....I must take some tips from her.....
That was one of my favourite weeks in a while....and i haven't even told you about the APC shipment we just got in...I might have to save that for another day....you can only take so much excitement........
madame x
She was lovely too which is always a relief when you meet someone you've admired for so long and was even kind enough to say she liked my look!!!! MY look!!!
The same night I'd just locked up at the cake shop and if you've ever seen me do that you know what a production it is - trap-door and all - and walked headlong into Simon and Gordon from Obey who'd brought the womenswear designer and two other lovely guys from Obey America to check out the store. So I turned right around and we crammed back down into the shop which I think they liked pretty well, and ended up taking a whole load of stupid photos of ourselves before they headed off into Soho......
Did I mention my friends Ian and Leah who now live in Lisbon now came by last week? Look how effortlessly chic they look together....makes you sick! Not really.....and they brought their friend Sandra down too who's in an amazing band called New Connection. Her voice is MENTAL in the best way, we were listening to Lolipop in the shop....which rhymes....
Now there's only a few bands that drive me to distraction and I have Sasha from Hyde SK to thank for turning me on to Eagles of Death Metal, who are one of my favourite bands IN THE WORLD!!!!!! If you haven't checked them out GO ON!!!! They were playing a Ladies Only night on monday at the Raymond Revue Bar - how genius is that?! - surely the brainchild of singer Jesse who's a one for the ladies to say the least. I went with Alex who'd never heard them before and had had a pretty shit day, and got swept along (even onto the stage!!!) with their fantastic sexy sweaty infectious fabulousness!!!! Jesse's like a cross between a 70's porn star/clone and a sleazy greaser which equals sex on legs in my tiny mind, with a sort of falsetto voice...you've got to check them out they're so amazing. Can i say that a ladies only gig is the best night out ever!!
Lots of hotties down the front shaking their hairdos, loads of screaming and singing along and no aggro AT ALL!!! Best gig i've been to oooooooh in AGES, haven't had as much fun since Peaches dry-humped me on stage.....
This is me and Alex with Jesse, pleased to meet you! Maybe I was a bit too excited and squeezed him too hard, but that's what rock n roll is all about right?????
Alex as usual looks beautiful, calm, and not at all like a nutter, in her picture....I must take some tips from her.....
That was one of my favourite weeks in a while....and i haven't even told you about the APC shipment we just got in...I might have to save that for another day....you can only take so much excitement........
madame x
Labels: Barbara Hulanicki, Biba, Eagles of Death Metal, Hyde S.K., Obey, Paul Gorman