➤ The original Wag sets the scene for Club to Catwalk at the V&A
➢ The July issue of High Life magazine celebrates the launch next week of the Club to Catwalk exhibition in the V&A fashion gallery – Longtime Wag club host Chris Sullivan recalls the unbridled...
View Article➤ Bowie blockbuster goes abroad after 20 weeks wowing London
➢ Bowie HQ on the V&A show’s last days: “ Around 300,000 people have seen the V&A’s David Bowie is exhibition as it enters its closing week. The V&A has been running regular late-night...
View Article➤ Dress UP while Sullivan selects sounds from the 80s at the V&A’s Friday Late
❚ EX-ST MARTIN’S AND WAG CLUB HOST Chris Sullivan says: “I’ll be deejay at the V&A again for next Friday’s free event. I’ll be doing a typical 80s club set from Kraftwerk to house with hip hop,...
View Article➤ Gaultier celebration trumps all else in London this summer
◼︎ YOU’LL NEVER HAVE SEEN an avant-garde fashion show like it, let alone couture up close and jangling its Swarovski crystals in your face. The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier, From Sidewalk to the...
View Article➤ After Anna’s drenching, Gaultier leads the world’s fashionistas for more...
◼ WHO WOULD HAVE PREDICTED the stern-faced Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour would have played ball with the #icebucketchallenge sweeping America to raise funds for the ALS charity? Well, having been...
View Article➤ Fashionista Webb plays Sherlock to shed light on the mysteries of a smart...
◼ ANOTHER YEAR ANOTHER BOOK LAUNCH. Here’s Iain R Webb doing the honours signing his latest in Mayfair this week – here for Hugo von Hugo, there for Helen David, there again for Carol Morgan, a...
View Article2016 ➤ Telling it like it is, Mister Nightlife aka Swindells Junior
◼ WE FIRST MET, I VAGUELY RECALL, at the Leadmill in that damp autumn of ’82 when Dave Swindells was still a student at Sheffield Uni. I was the hotshot “Man from The Face” doing a whistle-stop tour of...
View Article2016 ➤ Bid for your own rare photo of David Bowie
◼ FOR THE NEXT 12 DAYS in central London a free exhibition titled David Bowie: Fame, Fashion, Photography is showing previously unseen archive photographs of the pop icon who died in January. The event...
View Article2017 ➤ His name is Prince and his London tribute is downright spunky
◼ Hold your breath! An exhibition that could so easily have been a lightweight commercial ripoff about the myth of Prince Rogers Nelson proves to be a surprisingly affecting tribute. Scores of...
View Article2018 ➤ Bayeux Tapestry to be displayed in UK for the first time
◼ DURING HIS UK VISIT THIS WEEK, French President Emmanuel Macron announced the loan of the 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry which depicts events leading up to the Norman conquest of England in 1066 which...
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