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FRITH VALET SERVICE

So back in the days before The World According To... and before Shopgirl was SHOP round on Frith Street that was a little laundry next to Bar Italia where Max and Pippa first set up business doing service washes and selling clothes from a couple of rails in the window of the laundrette. Weird huh?

And here are the pictures of them from then:
Pippa Brooks in a cross between Madonna [the rosary] / Fiorucci model [the shades]


And here is Max Karie

No comment from me about the nipple ring. The thought of any body piercing except in the ears terrifies me!

A fabulous piece of press from Max's club DJ times

With 'Things That Make You Go Hmmmm...' in at number 4.

And speaking of Max's music taste, we are OBSESSED with this song at the moment.

Love Synchronicity by Sandy Marton. It is too incredible.
I think Sandy Marton is too skinny to be wearing such a baggy outfit but the mullet is a killer!

There are more photos to come but I just don't want to give them all to you at once! Besides, I have to see how much Max and Pippa are going to kill me for this first.

xx 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

Laugh?

Ok, if you don't come to the Lost Society next month you're MAD!!! I don't think I've laughed so much in AGES...just one of those nights where the fun starts and you can't stop until you realise you've laughed yourself onto the floor of the cab on the way home...eh, Sarah?

so if this is how the evening ended, what on earth went on in the lead up to this?

Mr Mark Eley and I nearly got into a scrap behind the decks...can you see the tension brewing? But I love a good battle and really it was only the pina colada talking....

...and there were better things to do like DANCE!!

..even in your Westwood prostitute shoes, the music was too fantastic to sit still!

Especially when I was on the decks!!!!

There reallly is nothing so wonderful as dancing around your handbag in good company to fantastic music, and though it doesn't look like it here, this was a drug-free high-on-life (plus some fine wine...) kind of a night...

In fact, the only thing to do was make like a monkey (sarah's idea...thanks for that..) swing from the beams and get friggin FUGLY!!!! Even with the special effect light effects which Sarah taught me there's no getting away from the fact that this is one of the scariest picture of me that has ever been taken.......mother of two, how proud the boys will be of me one day....

Forgot to mention House of Boing who did a delightful performance using the whole room, twirling in beautiful frocks and generally bring a bit of class to the proceedings......then it was back to this...


Do come down next time...you know you want to! madame xxx

WAS IT WORTH IT

I have known Pippa for years and I only found this out on Saturday.

Was It Worth It? Pet Shop Boys



Watch in at 01:40 and see if you can pick out Pippa Brooks with the bows in her hair!

xx Emma

EXCITEMENT PLUS

OMG today was awesome cause I went into Soho to meet at the Shop with everyone else to pull off the fastest roof top shoot with all the new season APC that has hit the shop this week. We did the shoot on Bev's roof - she lives on Charing Cross Road - and the views are PHENOMENAL!! Nelson's Column, Big Ben, The Wheel and every cute little chimney stack in between. So amazing. YOU ARE ALL GOING TO DIE when you see the pics by the shop's bestie fav photographers Sarah Lee and Bev herself! Afterwards, we went and had a drink together at the Coach and Horses which was not only a fab chillax for all of us, but for me it was the total total unwind required after the super hectic work I have had going at my other job.


A gang of beautiful women.

Chilli, like the coolest dog ever. She barked at all the loser drunk men with floppy hair, pink shirts and pinker cheeks.

Cute Pippa, actually wearing an A.P.C. smock dress. You will die for these. And there isn't going to be that many left - now that Pippa has one herself in every colour.

Two models and a photographer.

That is not J-Lo even though it looks a bit like it, with Bev who has great pins and lovely feet to go with them.

ANYWAY - you are going to have to hang on a few more days while we capture video, download photos and get film processed before you can check out the work we did tonight - or you can race into Shop At Maison B and nab the pieces you want before anyone else does! [When I saw it all, I screamed! For real! Ask Pippa.]

xx Emma

SUMMER SORE THROAT

Praise the Lord that Summerish weather is finally here! I've been able to wear my Jessica Ogden / APC Madras without a white cotton vest underneath and flounce about in all my vintage cotton party dresses without a tower of knitwear on top as well. Sadly however, I've been working too hard [9 days straight] and ended up in bed this morning with a throat of FIRE. But there is always a plus side - time to blog!

The last 9 days have had some party time in between. One of the girls at Katharine Hamnett is leaving on maternity leave so we had a big dinner at Julie's to celebrate the exciting times ahead for her. We decided we all have to turn up with mad hair cause Jo has the craziest hair of all.

Katharine Hamnett was able to live her Amy Winehouse hair obsession for one night only.
I was sad when we brushed it out the next day. I loved it.
N.B. I have to say I drank far to many French 75 Champagne cocktails that night and had dry mouth the whole of the next day and it was tough going reconciling bank statements AND answering the Katharine Hamnett phones. Particularly as I had been drinking the same cocktails the night before at the Hawksmoor.

I found a gang of old photos too:

Paul found these old nudie pics when he was still living in Chicago. I think they are so beautiful - there are three or four of them all together all as lovely as this. And I can't help but look at her and think that is Madonna wasn't a pop star, she might just look like this.

And do you recognise anyone here?:

This is from when Pippa came to Hamburg in 2003 with me and did two shows, one at the Golden Pudel and another on the MS Stubnitz. The boys were still little babies I think! Of course, they were not dancing around in the background, they were safely at home. I have to say, Pippa looks about 19 in this picture.

I wish I had got to go to the last party of Paul Gorman's Pippa was performing at - I will have to get all the gossip off her on Saturday when I see her next. I am also looking forward to all the new stuff coming into Maison B for Autumn/Winter - I had a mini snoop in Selfridges at the SONIA stuff but didn't buy anything cause I know that Maison B prices are always a bit cheaper, and Pippa and Max always get madder stuff. And I'm DYING for the A.P.C. on it's way. And of course all that means is we are gonna be making some more videos and doing more shoots to show you all the new stuff - which has got to be the best fun of ALL!

xx Emma

Quentin Crisp envy...

Oh look what my friend Paul Frecker bought at Bonham's the other day! Only Quentin Crisp's ACTUAL typewriter!!!! The very one he wrote The Naked Civil Servant on!!! Now you can call me an old fag hag if you want but i was tres tres jealous!!!

There's even a note from Mr Quentin Crisp, stately homo himself!!!

Lots has happened since I last wrote to you...Paris was great, APC ROCKED! Emma and I even made one of our fabulous movies to record the events of the day.... APC, underwear and rose - what more could you wish for in a day trip!

More from me soon, I'm djing with Emma at a Blondes vs Brunettes night on Friday- better make sure my roots are up to scratch! More Babitz news soon and of course we're busy busy busy with the sale, still lots of bargains to be had before the winter stock hits the rails! If you get a chance, have a gander at the exhibition upstairs in the tearoom, it's Matthew Buckham's show-within-a-show "10 Heroes", here's Tania giving good eek on top of some of the paintings....

Get yourself some art and a frock for goodness sake!!!

Meanwhile, re-read "The Naked Civil Servant"......madame xxxx

pics from paul

Paul Gorman just sent me these from the St Martin's do the other night, wanted to show you my top as it was such a great one....and paul looks rather pleased with his choice, i want to say it's the cambridge rapist t shirt but i'm probably wrong....i love how paul always has a copy of his book The Look in his hand....


The photographs are taken by Vic Singh who has a few stories to tell himself...friend of George Harrison from way back when who shot amongst other things the cover of Pink Floyd's PIper at the Gates of Dawn album sleeve.....