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➤ K West sign ‘possibly’ for sale in Bowie memorabilia show
❚ AFTER ZIGGY’S 40TH ANNIVERSARY HULLABALOO comes a unique selling exhibition of Bowie graphic art and memorabilia from his golden years 1969–1981. On display this week in London for the first time in...
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➤ Barcelona celebrates Adriá, magician of edible art, and a totally useless...
❚ EATING CAN BE THEATRE, just as food can be art. The Catalan chef Ferran Adriá is Houdini and Picasso in one, commonly lauded as the best in the world. His three-Michelin starred restaurant El Bulli,...
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➤ Bowie at V&A: more than a rock star, Bowie reveals the process of art and...
➢ 1965, Teenage Bowie flashes priceless smile to an amateur cine camera – read how the clip was found MAR 20: PROFESSOR OF FASHION IAIN R WEBB ON THE OPENING PARTY ❏ Just spent a blissed out evening at...
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➤ Searching for that last kiss on the third anniversary of McLaren’s death
My lips are open wide Stretched so far apart Searching for that last kiss With my hands pressed tight to my heart A thousand hungry flowers Loving you for hours and hours Soon smothers me so tenderly A...
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➤ Linard’s twist on classic Levi – add the kitchen sink
➢ Blitz magazine recalled on the V&A blog: “ The Blitz designer collection of Levis denim jackets celebrates some of the most talented and creative designers working out of London in 1986 and it...
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2013 ➤ A ‘blistering’ picture hoard from punk’s formative years
❚ FOR THOSE WHO SURVIVED the mid-70s, punk was the anti-fashion UK phenomenon that transformed contemporary culture. Now “a blistering 1976-80 photo-hoard” of mostly unseen pictures has been published...
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➤ Another eyeopener from always-there Ridgers
❚ PUNK AND CLUB PHOTOGRAPHER Derek Ridgers has a new show titled Afternoon At The Seven Palms And Other Stories which opened this week at The Society Club in Soho. At his blog Ridgers writes: “ This is...
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➤ 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...
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➤ 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...
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➤ 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,...
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➤ 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...
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➤ 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...
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➤ 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...
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2016 ➤ 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...
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2016 ➤ 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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