I never thought I was over Warhol...

....but it's easy to think you've seen it ALL if you're a fan. The same photos, clips, cow wallpaper....well, apart from the cow wallpaper which has been done to DEATH, I was thrilled by the Hayward's Andy Warhol exhibition.

It's mostly on tv screens, so you crawl along picking up headphones as they become free, your eyes flicking to what others are watching "...is that Divine?! Did I just see Diana Vreeland talking from her geisha-red couch?!....ohhhh, did John Sex just flicker into my line of vision.....Halston???? "

Lots of lovely clips from Andy Warhol TV, lots of footage from shoots you may be familiar with but there was someone there filming the proceedings, so you get to hear the inanities uttered as Andy gets dragged up, or eavesdrop on Liza and Andy as they chit-chat while a society friend is being made up for her polaroid for a later screenprint....

One of my favourite clips is a boring day at the Factory and Candy Darling is half-heartedly manning the phones, becoming aware of the presence of a camera she demands a lolipop and then breaks into a song and dance, her hair not "done" at all and wearing a thrift store forties dress she looks absolutely exquisite of course....



Was this just an excuse for me to post a picture of Candy Darling?

Probably. What a beauty.

Madame xxx

And in other news; Pyjamas!

Lola is Beauty asked me for a snap in the A.P.C. madras polka dot PJs for her super blog ....she's been whipping herself and her readers into a frenzy over them over the past weeks! This was a new blog for me and it was a lovely surprise to find another soul who thinks as highly of Diana Vreeland as myself; I've only gone as far as immortalising her on one of my Madame flyers, Lola takes it to a whole other level whereby you can put questions/problems to La Vreeland and she will quote D.V. appropriately and solve your query!

So, check out my pic....you'll see I'm averting my green face! I was suffering from a sicky bug on that day and felt like death-not-even-warmed-up but you get the gist of these wonderful PJs. My advice: for £55 you can buy the jim jams, keep the top to wear out - it's classic peter pan collar is all over this season's A.P.C. collection - and wear the bottoms with a vest for bed! The slippers are also A.P.C., I've been slip sliding around my flat in them all cosy.......

Madame xx