I always leave it until I've got SO MUCH TO SAY!!! Must post more regularly but where the f*** did April go???!!!! My life is flashing by like a speeded up recap on America's Next Top Model....without any top models!!!!
A week or so ago, Obey took the other shop for a couple of press days and made it look GREAT! When I went down to visit Gordon in between appointments I was so impressed! Made me nostalgic for the old gaff even though I love my new life as resident madame. It was also a great opportunity to look at the A/W Obey again, really looking forward to getting that gear in....
Been putting up bunkbeds in the boys room and unearthed a load of old photo albums and found another Obey shot, this time when Max and I were in Japan, must be at least 8 years ago...!
I think the next pic was taken on the same outing and I thought I'd throw it in to make sure you're concentrating....
Dean Chalkley, rock n roll photographer came to visit the other day, he's shooting a Levi's lookbook and on the lookout for "manly cowboys and vintage-faced girls" between the ages of 20-30 who can give good bombshell and would like to come to a casting tomorrow (4th May)! If you think you've got it going on why don't you email nina1cowan@hotmail.com and shake out your denims and slap on a bit of slap for Levi's!
Here's Dean giving good geezer, he's djing in southend-on-sea on Sunday night and when I've finished writing this I'd better try to sort out a hotel....
Then Mark and Jason drove by...they must have started on the Gumball Rally by now....in the red and blue g wizzes which looked so cute parked next to each other. The traffic wardens just wanted to ask them about the crazy little cars, unusually friendly for once....
My sister Sally and Ben McLaughlin the artist who she met in India and I went for a slightly boozy lunch on Monday at The Boot and Flogger which of course I've written about here before and is one of my favourite old boozers (the old boozers old boozer!) It's perfect for a long lunch actually because they only stay open until about 8pm, being peopled by quite alot of city types, politicians and the like who like their lunches long and liquid but perhaps an early night, probably nodding off during Newsnight... We laughed alot, particularly when Ben did an impression of a nun on iron supplement - you see this is funny because my sister's writing her doctorate on GM foods, particularly rice and one field of research is these nuns in the Philippines who get iron supplemented rice and can be observed I suppose because they don't get out much - anyhoo it was a bit like the Terminator singing "a wil o the wisp, a flibberdigibbit, a clown...." and you probably had to be there..........
Then a spot of "modelling" on Tuesday night (who said my life's not like ANTM?!) at the Cochrane Theatre for Paul Gorman's Clash Culture presentation where the women who designed the stage/street clothes the Clash wore from the late 70's to Combat Rock talked through some of the surviving outfits. Michon and Kolowska read from their diaries written at the time when they were late teens caught up in the Clash mania, sewing outfits right up until the minute before the boys ran out on stage, which was great.
Nathaniel got to wear one of the original t shirts made for the security guards at Clash concerts, this is him getting into character: "Thug Mrs"
Here's Jen from the Priscilla's and the other guys in the very recognisable zippy primary against black outfits..
Then Bernie Rhodes, notorious Clash manager got up on stage to make a "five minute statement" which ran on much longer and veered between moments of hilarious clarity, to a fashion audience primarily "I'm surprised to see you all here, I thought you'd all be at Topshop!" and great glimpses of a heady insane time, to slightly directionless rants about how we're all on the Titanic but he's good friends with Scorcese who wants to document his life....and in many ways we ARE on the Titanic metaphorically speaking.....Anyhoo, he calls himself a Punk Philosopher and he's right enough....
I love those situations when there's a polite yet terrified silence.....time to sink some free booze and sigh with relief afterwards....
Last thing to mention which I'm so excited about it that I've managed to lay my hands on some original 70's t shirt transfers which are amaaaaazing! So if you come and leaf through the file I've got some fantastic ones, these are two of my favourites, both featuring apples, but one with a glamour model pouting within it and the other with the tag "taken" attached. I've got some plain tshirts so you can choose the one you want and I can have it ready in a day or two for collection, or indeed if you have a garment you want the transfer to be put onto we can do that too!!! £39.95 with a t-shirt, £20 without.
I've got more of some than others and it's a case of while stocks last, but do come down and have a look....madame xxx
Labels: Andre the Giant, Bernie Rhodes, Mark Eley, Obey, Paul Gorman, The Clash
....who gave up trying to dodge my camera!
