Fur Coat, No Knickers

I loved the makeup at Christian Dior’s A/W ’08 show — the winged eyeliner, the false lashes, the pale lips… not to mention the bouffant hair, which by now I’m sure you all know how much I love. One of the inspirations for the look was 60s socialite and Andy Warhol muse, ‘Baby’ Jane Holzer.

Holzer was a real Park Avenue princess, the ultimate New York socialite — the Paris Hilton of her day, if you will. As well as a hefty inheritance fund, Holzer Married into money and she has worked variously as an actress, model, art collector, and, most famously, muse to the artist Andy Warhol. As well as Warhol, she was photographed by the legendary David Bailey for Vogue in the 60s.

You can check Holzer out in the Warhol movies, Soap Opera and Batman Dracula, and Ciao! Manhattan. For now though, let’s just take a moment to revel in the massive hair, amazing makeup, and mod-tastic 60s garb. I love you Baby Jane!

Nan Goldin is my all-time favourite photographer, so I was pretty psyched to see a new collection from her in the New York Times this week. Nan has taken a series of photos of celebrities/models/socialite-types dressed in this season’s couture, but this being Nan, these aren’t your average fashion shots.

To make up for the two lame-ass excuses for punks I reported on earlier today, I figured it would be nice to end the day with a look at a real kick-ass punk lady. The Rezillos are a criminally underrated punk/nuwave band, who appeared way back in 1976. With a penchant for all things spacey and futuristic, the band made awesome poppy tunes, and put on great stage shows featuing fun costumes and stage shows. Although they split and formed other bands in the 80s, they are now back together and gigging again. Clearly the best member of the band is the fabulous Fay Fife, who spits out lines in a fantastic broad Scottish accent.

The band’s bio sums up Fay’s style best;

Ah, The Mary Quant of Day-Glo Punk – My, haven’t the years been kinder to her than most…and hell, the heart of a deranged Tasmanian devil still beats deep within!

Here a couple of more recent shots of Fay, still looking as brilliant as ever. Question: could your mum rock a plastic chain mail outfit?

The Rezillos are probably best known for the AMAZING song, (Somebody’s Gonna Get Their) Head Kicked in Tonight, which was featured in the original Jackass movie. Fun fact; this song was originally recorded by Fleetwood Mac. No, really.

I know I bang on about Talking Heads, but it’s only because it genuinely worries me that there might be some people out there who haven’t been touched by them. Anyway, this isn’t about them, really. Today I want to introduce some friends of the Heads, the wonderful Brides of Funkenstein.

If you’re familiar with the amazing Stop Making Sense, you’ll have seen some of the Brides (Lynn Mabry and Edna Holt) in action as backing singers. But less of the Talking Heads, the Brides of Funkenstein are a great band in themselves. If you know anything about funk (and you really should), it might not come as any surprise to hear that they were the brain child of George Clinton, of Funkadelic fame.

The band had various lineups over the years, and as well as Talking Heads perfomed with everyone from Grace Jones to Ice T. I funking love them! There’s a distinct lack of videos available, but here’s a couple for your consideration.

I love LA a lot, but I still don’t think I could get away with the Root’d In Style area code bracelets, even though they’re amazing. You can pick them up at Shopbop.com, but at the moment they do only have West Hollywood/downtown LA area codes. They do have necklaces for other cities, but they aren’t quite as cute as these.

They need to design a SE14 one, then we’d be talking business…

The real highlight of all the Fashion Weeks put together surely has to be the Anna Wintour-alike who showed up at the Lanvin show.

How bizarre! I wonder if it’s anything to do with Alison Jackson…