Month: March 2011

Balenciaga makes shark-teeth bracelets acceptable

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When it comes to accessories, these are my worsties:

5) Scarves made out of this kind of chenille wool;
4) This exact shoe;
3) Really small ugly black leather nondescript handbags;
2) Matrix sunglasses;

…and in prime position…

1) Leather thong necklaces with vaguely ~tribal~ silver pendants

This Balenciaga bracelet feels like it could go a bit the way of my number one worsty, but I guess the fact that it is lovingly crafted from pewter and beautiful dentritic agate saves it. I’d still feel like a bit of a meathead wearing a shark tooth bracelet, but I reckon I could handle being a Balenciaga-clad meathead.

If you want to go all-out Fat Willy’s Surf Shack meathead, Balenciaga are also doing shark tooth pendants on leather thongs!! Noooooooo.

Alberto Guardiani lipstick heels

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Despite having relatively small feet, I seem to trip over them on a pretty regular basis. I’m currently nursing a twisted ankle after going arse over tit last week, and I stack it on the curb outside the office on a weekly basis. Flats, heels, running, walking, drunk, sober; I just can’t walk.

All my shoes are invariably in terrible condition, which is why I don’t fancy chancing it in these Alberto Guardiani lipstick heels, no matter how bad-ass they are. Available at Colette – where else?

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Andrew WK launches Charlie Sheen shirt

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Your friend and mine, Andrew WK, has just released this limited edition Charlie Sheen t-shirt. If it’s anything like as popular as my three other AWK shirts I can guarantee you that you will get stopped on a weekly basis by awestruck party fiends who remember the golden days of 2001.

BTW, if you didn’t see this on my Facebook about two months ago:

 

Ignore his t-shirt and any jock-related initial thoughts and just enjoy. He is a marvel, a true marvel.

Looking forward to Postmodernism: Style and Subversion

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I’ve said it before I’ll say it again, Stop Making Sense is one of very few DVDs I own which I could happily watch every day for the rest of my life. Along with Alan Partridge, 200 Cigarettes, and Jeeves and Wooster boxsets ad infinitum, I can watch Stop Making Sense any time, anywhere, any day, and still get non-stop joy from it.

True story: just writing that, I had to stop watching Corrie and put it on.

I love Talking Heads more than most things in life, and it kills me every day that there are too many egos involved to ever let a full reunion happen. After like obviously KISS, they are grappling with Beach Boys for the second spot in my top three.

END RANT.

The point of this post was to say how excited I am about the upcoming post-modernism exhibition at the always-fabulous Victoria & Albert Museum this autumn. Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990 is the V&A’s big winter exhibit this year, and will cover art, design, and culture in the 70s and 80s – including [GET READY!!] the big suit from Stop Making Sense. SCREAM! I’m no psychic, but knowing what he’s like, I wouldn’t be surprised if we were treated to a lecture from David in the events surrounding the exhibition too. SCREAM!

The V&A says:

The exhibition will explore the radical ideas that challenged the orthodoxies of Modernism; overthrowing purity and simplicity in favour of exuberant colour, bold patterns, artificial looking surfaces, historical quotation, parody and wit, and above all, a newfound freedom in design. Many modernists considered style to be a mere sideshow to their utopian visions; but for the postmodernists, style was everything.

Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970 – 1990 will bring together over 250 objects across all genres of art and design, revisiting a time when style was not just a ‘look’ but became an attitude.

I don’t know about you, but that pretty much sounds like the best exhibition of all time in my eyes.

Other highlights include artwork from Jeff Koons and Peter Saville, music videos from Grace Jones (!!) and New Order (!!!) and films including Derek Jarman’s The Last of England (Tilda Swinton fans, get ready!!!!).

Another thing I’ve said before but that I’ll say again; exhibitions like this make me want to go back to university just so I can write an essay with footnotes about how good it is. Would it be weird to do that anyway and post it to the V&A like fan mail?

The exhibition opens on 24 September AND IT WILL BE FUCKING BRILL.

PS If you’ve never watched Stop Making Sense, consider yourself no longer a friend. Also, tell me. I’ll buy it and send it to you. I mean it!

Abbey Lee Kershaw has amazing taste in jewellery

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Love these pictures of Abbey Lee Kershaw’s ringers which I found on Knight Cat. I have a heap of new rings which I need to take pictures of, but the main thing I take from this picture is how much too fat my fingers are for the pink YSL Arty which Abbey models so expertly.

I went to buy it in Selfridges (the only place I can still find the pink one), only to discover that my enormous hands are just too enormous. Wah wah. The nice lady from YSL did tell me that they only got small sizes in, but that’s kind of a barbed compliment, isn’t it?

(Fat) fingers crossed they have some left somewhere in NYC.

PS Abbey’s turquoise ring is from here!