Mates on Plates

I keep mentioning my and some of the Maison B ladies' trips to Good Vibes, which is Nahid's power plates studio, but if anyone wasn't sure what we do there take a look at this!

I did a film of Nahid for YouTube - this is the first of many, and I bet you'll be inspired to give it a go! When I tell people I go to power plates they imagine being wobbled around with a rubber band round your middle like something out of a cartoon, but you can see it's much more subtle than that. PLUS you can do it in full make-up, PLUS you don't need trainers, PLUS you can pretty much whip of your skirt and get on! And it "takes care of business" as Nahid says, kind of firms you up in all the key places - especially bum! Find out about Good Vibes and where her studios are http://www.goodvibesfitness.co.uk/, but check out the Mistress of the Good Vibes Universe herself.....


Madame x

p.s. Yes, that is a Sonia sweater she's wearing, and yes she got it at Maison B!

Ponystep.com

I trotted along to Sketch last night with Nahid (actually I took the tube and she glided up in a taxi, she's such a lady!), for Richard Mortimer's launch of Ponystep.com. It's his new project after Boombox and is an online magazine which I think goes live at midday today, so be one of the first to log on!! I think I remember him saying that Ponystep comes from either the catwalk style of Honor Fraser or Iris Palmer, they had a very individual lollop.

Anyway there'll be lots of fashion news and more besides and if it's Richard you know it'll be FIERCE! Here is my favourite picture of the night:

I love Nahid, she's so game!!!! We kept pointing out the cracks and flaws in the pod loos, neither of us has been to Sketch for years, I think the last time I went was for the Zoltar launch! But i think the amenities need a little sprucing up...

Bumped into lovely Pam, I'm singing a couple of songs in her "Slinky Salon" at Valbonne on Thursday night, she has the best hair colour of anyone in London....


I've got to run as I've got a power-plates booked and I'm meeting Sarah and Sonja there, we are going to have buns you can bounce pennies off by summer!!!!

Madame xx

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

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