TIME FOR AN UPDATE?!

Hi Everybody - IT HAS BEEN A LONG TIME YEAH??!! I have to say apart from sometimes longing for the pink wallpaper and some girly chats with winter coming I am happy not to be sitting under the stairs in 5 layers of thermal and a scarf 10 years long.

But what is the girly gossip I can update you with in lieu of the fact I can't do it over an eclair with you?

Madame and I wanted to let you know that Maison Bertaux will have their own lovely website soon and when we get the link, we will let you know.

Madame's own blog madamesays.com has turned into an Internet hit and was voted by The Telegraph as on of the top 20 fashion blogs along with The Sartorialist, Susie Bubble and GoFugYourself. See for yourself!

If you need to get a personal fix of Madame herself, don't forget to head East to Hackney Road and visit M Goldstein the shop full of stuff you never realised you HAD TO HAVE run jointly with Nathaniel "I know where I can get one of those" Lee Jones.

Lektrogirl [me] is still addicted to the Internet and CSI, works for Denza, Consults with financial management and record keeping, runs an amateur erotic online gallery which is definitely NSFW [not safe for work!] called lameatnames. I've also started with two of the other Lady Gang, The Cardinal from Picnic-Land and Sarah Lee a blog about one of the Shop At Maison B Lady Gang's passions VINTAGE CHINA and AFTERNOON TEA - swooning just typing it! Take a look at our personal treasures at madameatrois.com

Sarah Lee the professional shutter bug has her own website these days sarahmlee.com with her whole folio of celebrities and fabulous nobodies like us lot drunk and showing off at Lady's Nights.

Mrs Gorman has her own blog now too Mrs Gorman where she reports her latest fashion fixations from her desk. [More likely the sofa in Thai fisherman's trousers.]

Last but not least, Max Karie, who knows a great lady when he sees one can be checked out on the regular at his own site maxkarie.com and he is still Consulting, Brainstorming, Powerhousing, Idea Having!!!

Most of all WE MISS YOU. We get together for Lady's Night - our supper club - about once a month to keep up with each other now rather than over a cake and coffee. Sadly none of us have a living room big enough to accommodate you all [give us a room and a table big enough we would sure as hell try!!] so I think the best thing to do would be roll up to one of Madame's DJ gigs - Pippa Brooks appears at Pony Step, still at The George and Dragon - and you can find details of all of that at madamesays.com

xx Lektrogirl & Madame

So.....

I decided to take my eyebrows up a couple of shades....

...this was after a little encouragement from Lektrogirl. I still catch sight of the huge upper expanse now reaching from eyes to hairline and gasp, but I think it's quite summery so as I grasp every last vestige of summer to my breast as it slips away, I think I'll keep it like this....or should I go all out bleached freak white?! The joy of course is you can draw in your eyebrows any shape so it's pretty much a win, win.

Madame x

Nordic num nums

Emma came by the other day at lunchtime with a brown paper bag full of Nordic specialties for us to share....

What a treat! We both love the pickled herring, beetroot, dark heavy dense bread thing which is quite an acquired taste so she knew I'd be clapping my hands with delight as she unpacked our picnic. I got my ceremonial doily out of the cupboard as befitted the situation and we shared a salmon tartare roll and a pickled herring and potato one which were so amazing, then a cinnamon bun to share with our Flat White coffees......deeeelicious! If any of you like this kind of fare get down here, if only for a cinnamon bun, they're covered in a thick sticky sugar glaze and are amaaaazing. Superduck came down in time for a bite and agreed, although he wasn't as excited as us about the pickled herring aspect.


Super!

Madame x

Decision Reached

Was going to get the red patent Repettos but finally decided on the Bardot black and white check ones instead....

Emma was freaking out seeing me padding around in flats - according to her she's seen me at my true height maybe eight times in as many years....it unsettles her!

Madame xx

Have you seen this?

A lot of you already will have seen this if you are fans of Lektrogirl's blog but I wanted to post it anyway because I love it so much!


Madame x

AND IN NEW YORK TONIGHT!!

For all the Shop at Maison B blog readers who live in New York, here is something you might want to go and check out [then report back and let me know how it went...]

Event InfoName: NASTY NETS at NYUFF - DVD release screening!
Tagline: As Nasty As U Wanna Be
Host: Marisa Olson
Type: Music/Arts - Jam Session
Time and PlaceDate: Friday, April 4, 2008
Time: 8:30pm - 10:30pm
Location: Anthology Film Archives
Street: 32 2nd Avenue
City/Town: New York, NY

Nasty Nets has just produced a DVD (with video & data for maximum pleasure!) and we're releasing it in a screening called NASTY AS U WANNA BE at the 15th (and final) NY Underground Film Festival.

Please come and enjoy, and get your discounted dvd's--$5 while supplies last!

Big thanks to RHIZOME for sponsoring the dvd & screening!
http://nastynets.com/dvd.html
http://www.nyuff.com/2008/index2.php?p=arc&s=res&fid=295



Nasty As U Wanna Be
EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO MIN INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
Organized by Marisa Olson & the Nasty Nets with support from Rhizome.org

Identifying themselves as an "internet surfing club," Nasty Nets is an international ensemble representing some of the most active artists working online today. Together their work both celebrates and critiques the internet by employing original and appropriated imagery and audio, such as animated gifs, YouTube hacks, html cheat codes, and other found and edited material, offering a poignant and humorous take on contemporary digital visual culture.

This event will serve as a release party for their new dvd, which features videos for dvd players, copious digital files to be opened on personal computers, and a type-in website by Michael Bell-Smith. Tonight's screening will feature videos from the dvd and additional works by members of this 25-person crew.

Nasty Nets was founded by artists John Michael Boling, Joel Holmberg, Guthrie Lonergan, and Marisa Olson, and includes members Peter Baldes, Michael Bell-Smith, Camille Paloque Bergés, Kevin Bewers- dorf, Brian Blomerth, Charles Broskoski, Petra Cortright, Chris Coy, Paul B. Davis, Michael Guidetti, Britta Gustafson, Travis Hallenbeck, Chance Jackson, Lektrogirl, Tom Moody, Javier Morales, Paul Slocum, James Whipple, Robert Wodzinski, and Damon Zucconi. The Nasty Nets DVD is generously supported by Rhizome. Discs will be sold at a discount to NYUFF ticket-holders, at the festival, while supplies last. - Marisa Olson

My song and video that I made for it THE RESULT is going to be screened. If you want to check it out for yourselves, the link is here, but I would have to say that reports from my friends who work in offices was that they saw the first few moments and said "I think I better finish watching that at home." The video is made from culling other peoples clips from YouTube and editing them together.

xx Emma [aka Lektrogirl]

Fashion and Food

I have to say that my photos of night-time shenanigans are getting pretty good, ever since Sarah showed me that slow syncro trick on my camera! These photos from the Eley Kishimoto fashion week party where Max and I were djing wouldn't look out of place gracing a Steven Saban article on hot night-life and beautiful people! I used to love his column in Details, my favourite was one illustrated by a fantastic picture of Halston with a disco light glinting in his sunglasses....oooh or the one with Margaux and Mariel Hemingway leaving a club, Margaux baring one breast as her spaghetti-strap fell down....




It was so great to have Katrina back in London...gotta catch up with her properly this week...

Me Emma, Jasmine and Sarah went out for amazing Tapas in Mornington Crescent on Saturday night and laughed and laughed and laughed.....and laughed!!


Until my nose caught on fire...

The restaurant is called El Parador and doesn't look anything special from the outside but the food is diviiiiiiiiine!!! The vegetable dishes were my favourites, artichokes, spicey patates, aubergine and potato patties and the hot bean and garlic mush to start was delicious!!!

Anyway, if you've had a rough week, tapas with the girls is the best antidote to the blues....I recommend!!

Yes, I'm wearing the new APC polka dot dress in these pics, have you seen the new delivery yet? No? Where have you been???

madame x

BOOYAH!

IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME

Ahhh! Back in the driving seat at the office upstairs in the universe of The World According To... and Shop At Maison Bertaux. I feel like I was away for a zillion years, but really I just spent the last weekend DJing in Hamburg. I had been a long time since I was with my Hamburg Homies, but it felt like only yesterday since I saw them all there. The reason for me hopping over there was to DJ at the best club in Europe [actually de:bug magazine listed it as second in like the first time in 5 years this year...] and you may think "Oh wow! What the hell can the best club in Europe look like?" Well folks... Here it is:

The Golden Pudel.
This place is like a little charm on the bank of the Elbe river that from the outside looks like some crappy shack. Well actually it is kind of a crappy shack. But that is just how everyone likes it.


Here are two of my best friends, Superdefekt and Booty Carrell. Booty Carrell is one of the coolest dressers on hear but for proof check my whole flickr set from Hamburg. Total white trash pimp style.
I played on Friday night with Prokoller and Booty Carrell and then on Sunday with Superdefekt and my good buddies from Dresden, Mash Gordon also did a live gig.

Unfortunately I missed most of their set cause I ended up helping out behind the bar which had been a fantasy job of mine for some time.

Anyway the other thing other than The Golden Pudel to check out in Hamburg is THE BUNKER:

It is right on Feldstrasse - you can't miss it when you come out of the U-Bahn at the Feldstrasse stop. It still stand because apparently the only way to destroy it would be to use a huge amount of explosives cause the walls are so thick. Unfortunately, this would also take out half the surrounding suburbs.

The other thing you gotta have when you are in German is a freshly baked pretzel!

On Sunday morning we went over to a Bavarian friends house for a Bavarian traditional brekkie - white sausages cooked in hot water and loads of beer. We even ate the sausage in the traditional way where you have to score the skin of the sausage, then peel it off before you can eat it. But it has to be the weirdest faux sexual experience of my life - you are left with something uncannily like a condom in one hand and in the other you have a warm semi solid phallic object that you then have to put in your mouth and eat in front of a lot of half drunk Germans who think it is cute and funny to make the girl from London do this at 10am in the morning. Blurgh!


The other thing you might want to check out in Hamburg is the Reeperbahn. Just for all the weird things you might see for sale in the shop along the way:



In other news, the other week I went to 7 Year Glitch vs Dirty canvas - but only cause Paul was Djing. Ruff Squad MC'd and then Tempa T turned up for a go.


Tempa T has the coolest fade but a shame he only has one jumper. For more pics from the night check here.

Finally - I bought: THE NEW A.P.C. GREY DRESS, THE A.P.C. YELLOW LEATHER WALLET, THE A.P.C. STRIPEY LOGO T, THE A.P.C. KNITTED RAFFIA BAG BUT THE A.P.C. SIZE 40 DOLLY SHOES IN BLACK DIDN'T FIT SO SOME OTHER LUCKY GIRL IS GOING TO GET THEM. ARGGGGGHH!! Gutted.

xx Emma

Chez Moi!

Well! I wasn't gone long, but my weekend in Paris was so nuts and wonderful that I am totally exhausted and really glad to be back in my little bed in London hanging out watching TV.


But back in Paris, I got to hook up with some of my best friends [anti-clockwise from top left] Livia, DJ Koyote, Bitch Ass Darius, your truely and DJ Goon.
I was also thrilled to meet Teki Latex - one of the guys from French group TTC who has made some great music recently. Check out this video [thanks youtube] and maybe you will see why I think Teki is so fab.

And he talks about some of the people he has worked with for the album - Lio!!!! MON DIEU!!!!
And if you are into booty bass, miami, baltimore, ghetto tech, chicago house, italo disco and have a sense of humour you will probably love this:

from DJ Goon and DJ Koyote of Diamond Grills.

xx Emma

SCHWEINER ROCK!

Well now it is my turn to complain about being tired. But I have been in Liege, Brussels DJing at a party and dancing til 6.30 am, then rushing back on the train, to Brussels and nearly missing the Eurostar - which wouldn't have been so horrible - I'll tell you about all the incredible restaurants in Brussels one day that I have been to. But first I will tell you about my favourite thing in Belgium:

I feel like Alice in Wonderland with everything bigger and smaller and all the beers said "DRINK ME".

The party was by L'armée des bonbons the brain child of DJ Motorcross. Every one who performs at these events makes a bit nutso weirdo noisy electronic music - some like circus music, some love ballads, some like gabba and others, like my new favourite - Dresden band Mash Gordon who make punk with a table FULL of electronic stuff and a guitar. Which is rich coming from me who can be quoted as saying "I hate all music with guitars." Maybe it is the pig masks the guys wear on stage that helps.

Discobernd - Hog On!!

Me - all sweaty in a Mash Gordon sandwich with Discobernd on the right [cute] and Lu Weed on my left [SUPER CUTE]

It is really great to get away and do my [not so] secret music career stuff. It was also great the time Pippa came with me and was singing on a disused warship wearing rubber knickers in Hamburg come to think of it! But I am looking forward to now rolling into bed and finding out what the latest gossip from the shop is tomorrow

xx Emma