Last of the goodies....

The news that we are closing next month should sound sweeter when you know that we are starting our closing down sale TODAY! Here's a reminder of some of the luscious goodies you might want to get your mitts on.....all at 30% off!!!

Westwood perspex trinkets in neon pinks and greens with crystal highlights.....

Polka dot APC PJs make the best Christmas presents....not to mention the slippers....

Plastic and enamel Sonia remainders to brighten up your olds with a bit of new...

Cosy A.P.C. jumper dress to team with woolly tights...we've got a few pairs of them left too!

Spriggy teamed with cardigan is a favourite combo of mine from A.P.C....

Uncharacteristically pretty Westwood jewelry would make anyone smile for Chrimbo....

Can't go wrong in a boyish A.P.C. cap, you know you lose a lot of heat through the head this time of year...

Nothing to wear to that party?????? Not anymore...

You know where you are with an orb....and we've got them on everything!!!

Seriously, you've been great, ladies and gentlemen.....thanks for battling your way through the chattering classes upstairs, supporting our bijoux emporium and being part of our niche....

We'll stay in touch.

Madame x

YSL R.I.P.

This is a really great tribute news piece, Vivienne Westwood on Yves Saint Laurent in the studio and some wonderful footage.

Madame xx

The Great Unsaid

Vive le Punk is an intriguing film of Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren talking at the retrospective of their work in 1993 at The Horse Hospital. I went to the Horse Hospital on Tuesday night to watch the film with Paul Gorman, Caz Facey and El Vez. Strange to view the piece in the very space it was filmed. You find yourself flicking your eyes from screen to surroundings as Vivienne leans against a pillar, thinking, is that the one? The film is a gem. To have Westwood and McLaren in a room together is a rarity in itself, since apparently they don't communicate any more and hadn't for several years previous to this meeting.



Dressed in similar gentlemen's overcoats and regarding each other with much suspicion it's an incredible study in awkwardness and the unsaid.....Vivienne Westwood spends the first half of the interview smoking, wincing at McLaren's incessant narrative, drinking her way through several glasses of red wine and barely being given the chance for a word in edgwise. Both are incredibly eloquent and brilliantly eccentric and Vivienne gets the last word in an amazing comment the young.....I don't know if there are plans to realease the dvd, it needs considerable cleaning up as there's a lot of irritating background scrapings and fidgeting, but it would be worth doing I reckon.

We had an intelligent discussion following the screening....

....and Paul chose to demonstrate his impressive wink...I'm always impressed with this as my face and mouth have to go into a state of animated shock to coax a wink, but as you can see, Gorman is a natural...

Great to spend time also with the wonderful El Vez, he is the Mexican Elvis impersonator but so much more...check out his En El Barrio video here....

And check out Madame the Giant here....

El Vez is not tiny as this picture suggests, I was just clutching him to my chest to show I like him!!

Madame x

Favourites....

Here's Joe and Lektrogirl modelling some of their favourite pieces in the shop....

The rounded collar stripe shirt from A.P.C. which I keep thinking I might have to get myself, for those strict executive realness moments.....

And Joe and I were hanging in the shop today while Duke and Max went to Hastings. He was making magazines and conned me into getting him some shiny tights...which looked pretty good with the Eley Kishimoto print maryjanes as it goes....

And if you've not seen the Westwood perspex jewels you're going to LOVE them! This is the necklace and next week we've got brooches coming, in fact I need to do a jewelry special feature because what with the Obey sunglasses rings n things.....


Gotta go, Max and Duke just got back from Hastings and Max needs a DRINK! A day with one of the twins can do that to you......off I go to the Coach!!!

Madame xxx

Not great but an effort...

So, I was bored and Emma said, "why don't you animate some Westwood jewelry?"....which I'm sure i'll get around to doing sometime but I felt I needed a plot for my three second animation. The plot is that the Eley Kishimoto flash kubrick teddy falls in love with a flash converse and they make a baby....

....and it's not very flash at all....

Madame xx

Laydees Nite....

Oh what laughter!!! We (Madame, Lektrogirl, Jasmine, Sarah, Bev, Philippa and Nahid) all went out for a delicious dinner on Saturday night at La Barca, a favourite of mine and Emma's which we decided to force everyone else to enjoy!

And it looked like there was something for everyone....favourite was lobster spaghetti which I used to order every time until I decided I can't eat lobsters anymore. So Bev and I had asparagus risotto which was divine, Sarah had something with melted cheese on top and Nahid had a salad and.....was it a prawn dish..? Her plate was the furthest away from me but pudding-wise I can definately say she had chocolate mousse as she shared with me!! I forgot to take food pictures apart from this one of Emma's profiteroles....

And also the only person I didn't get a picture of.....

....except this of her scary, scary hands, was Emma!
Emma, Sarah and I sat on one side and chuckled as we saw our glossy be-fringed raven locked girlfriends lined up in front of us like this...

...except Bev and Nahid sat down to eat....
We had a fine glass of Frangelico which Sarah first introduced us to and is a liqueur of hazlenuts and very sweet and delicious. Sarah looks like she just poisoned my glass in this one....

It was such a wonderful time, we tottered out onto Lower Marsh at midnight and then I stayed up to watch Vivienne Westwood on the repeat of the Jonathan Ross show with my sister who got in from her party at the same time. She was fantastic, glinting in some holographic pirate-ish boiler suit and really eloquent and funny....love that lady!

Madame xxx

The World According To...

Just before Christmas we had a mini re-decoration at The World According To... and the walls in the stairway were wallpapered with newsprints of Wak's Eley Kishimoto designs. Her drawings of the collections are so beautiful and they make great wallpaper!!



And here is some of what we got in our mega super Silas super sale

Snow White bag and Boo bag!

Some real goodies.
We even have some Vivienne Westwood Bags on sale!

Belts between £5 and £20... Cool!!

Pieces from the Silas archives and one offs!



And all kinds of accessories, bags, belts and ties.

Bounce down the stairs to check out the sale and say hello!

xx Emma

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.....

pistol at st martin's!

Pippa Brooks with Glen Matlock!

Max and i went to St Martin's college on Friday night where Paul Gorman was doing a presentation to students of Westwood/McLaren tshirts, muslins, bondage trousers etc. I was one of the "models"(wearing a muslin of mickey and minnie mouse having sex) who chronologically minced up on stage to be described and put into historical context - Paul constantly amazes me with his knowledge, it's all there on the tip of his tongue, no notes, i think it comes from being obsessed and a real enthusiast for what you do, which is the best way to be i reckon, no half measures.....Max played some appropriate music in the background and the best part was when he played the Ramones at the wrong speed!!! Glen Matlock (original Sex Pistol and finale model in one of the earliest tshirts) was laughing so hard!!! Really nice bloke actually, i was determined to get a picture of us together for this blog and he was very gracious...in fact here's another one!!!