"Johnny's"

This Friday I'm OUT OF TOWN so will be missing the launch of Johnny's - Johnny Blue Eyes' new monthly night!!! Gah! (It should be said that I will be in Kent doing lovely Halloween things with my offspring.....also lovely - but I'm not missing the next one!).

If you can get on the list to this hot hot hot night the theme is "The Photographs of Helmut Newton meets Brideshead Revisited"...now THAT'S a theme!!!

If you don't already know Johnny of The House of Blue Eyes, you're definitely missing out, he's possessor of one of only two laughs in the world that I wish I could bottle for blue-days (the other being Sheila Tequila who frankly out Crusties Crusty the Clown!). One of those rare people who absolutley ooooozes joie de vivre and good vibes and will fill the room with his fabulousness......my ears always ache from sheer smiling and my voice is always a little hoarse after he leaves.

Stylist (Beth Ditto, Scissor Sisters), performer (until you've seen "Clowny" you haven't wholly met Johnny) and artist (amazing huge-format polaroids), his mission is "The Celebration of Goddess Women and Homosexuals". AMEN TO THAT!

If you can't get there on Friday come next time, I'll be posting details on here, it's only on the best street in Soho (Greek of course) so it's well within Madame's tramping ground....I know what the theme will be but I don't know if I'm allowed to say but I'm SO EXCITED!!!


Love that man.

Madame xxx

Blog withdrawal....

I can't believe I haven't blogged since Holly Woodlawn hit the town!!! Still can't get over my luck at meeting her, and today I learned from a link Superduck sent that they'll be laying Candy Darling's ashes to rest this weekend in a special ceremony in america....aaah, love those superstars! Sold my Viva book at Frieze today ('cos I've got 2), or rather Nathaniel did....what's going on in my life? It's like Warhol's doing a tapdance on my grave or something!!

If you're wondering what I've been up to, well...the following video which I've JUST finished, documents Max and my last trip to Paris at the weekend. We went to look at Summer 08 APC which was of course awesome, not least the silver and gold dresses, which have that nautical take that APC have got so down...how do they do that? Anyway, almost as exciting was the new bicycle borrowing system they have installed on the streets of Paris. F.A.N.T.A.S.T.I.C.!!!!! OMG, we spent the whole day riding around and took in EVERYTHING! I see Boris tootling by Maison Bertaux on his bike quite often and next time I'm going to collar him and tell him he'd be well on his way to making me a happy citizen if he would champion the same thing in London! It's perfect for people with no space to keep a bike, it's CHEAP, it's FUN and it's HEALTHY!!!! I'll stop before I start sounding like a commercia!

On to my movie then,.......



I was thrilled to find that we were doing our appointment with Hughes who I LOVE! He usually manages the shop but came in specially for us, so merci beaucoup Hughes! The summer stuff is so great, you can see that I favoured the metallic theme, but also there's some incredible colours which are surprising from APC, simple shirts in schiaperelli pink, yellow cheesecloth, knitted dresses in bright blue edged with red....you're gonna love love love!!!

madame x

Open Sesame!!

This isn't going to be a long post - I'm too tired to write more than a few lines. I just wanted to write that last night's opening party for Shop At Maison Bertaux was a BLAST!!! There were so many people we ran out of glasses, but then it didn't matter cause then we ran out of drinks. It was a fabulous street party out on Greek Street with the throng of guests that came for the opening, the Coach and Horses drinkers and the Somalian mini cab drivers. Phew!! All the work was totally worth it! Pictures and video from the Shop and the after party at Soho House to be posted soon and I'm sure Pippa will have a lot to write from her first day as shopgirl in Shop at Maison Bertaux.

xx Emma

P.S. I had to get up at 7am this morning. Urgh.