Last night, having felt like I've been majorly culture-deprived, I went to the ICA to catch Face Addict, having missed the UK premiere last week and after reading some words by the director Edo Bertoglio, I was determined not to let this one slip by me.  Edo Bertoglio arrived in New York in 1976 and stayed there until 1990, living the New York 'downtown' years to the max, the glory period being 1978-1982.  He became the photographer for Andy Warhol's Interview magazine and subsequently fell into of the whole Factory crowd.  'Fell' being the operative word as Bertolgio fell hard into a destructive herion addiction that made him leave New York and go back to his hometown Lugano, Switzerland.  A few years ago, he decided to return to New York, to open up his photographic archive and look at those faces that he shot, many of them now dead swep

To say that the Tom Kalin film Savage Grace (based on the book by Natalie Robbins and Steven M.L.

The Steve is away so I got to spend the evening with Yves instead, watching the Yves Saint Laurent documentaries 'His Life and Times' and '5 Avenue Marceau 75116 Paris' back to back and then re-reading The Beautiful Fall (tea stains a-plenty in this well thumbed book...).  My favourite bits in the books are when the encounters with Yves' various muses are recalled, with

The most recurring and oft-blog-quoted shoe imagery goes to Dorothy's red sequinned shoes in Wizard of Oz and whilst the shoes themselves have always seemed too obvious a thing to go for (and also because me and red don't really do well together....), wearing a pair around the neck would probably be a better option.

Fashion history video sequences such as the Mode en France one I posted a while back seem to be mighty popular with the clip having garnered over 50,000 views.  So, I wonder what will people make of this short film 'The Phenomenology of the Body', directed by Daphne Guinness which premiered on NYTimes T Magazine today and will also be presented during Paris Couture Fashion Week at the Hotel Crillon.   It features 13 historical female figures/roles, including Joan of Arc, Marie Antoinette (played by Guinness herself), the flapper, the commissar, the housewife all spinning on a turn table in the dark to an LCD Soundsystem soundtrack and finally ends with a vei