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I’ve been reading about, and watching, the very interesting stand-up routine of Adrienne Truscott: Is it ever ok to laugh about rape? Having watched the Youtube video, below, and Adrienne Truscott’s ‘One-Lady Rape About Comedy‘, I’m still not sure. I do like the way she skewers the hypocrisy about attitudes to women, rape and sexism […]
MoreYes, this is totally crazy but I have just bought tickets to see Savage Beauty at the V&A in March 2015. Booking frenzy gone mad, no? I loathe planning so far ahead and there are always very real doubts that, health wise, I will be able to make it – I usually think a couple […]
MoreThere’s a nice review today on a documentary film, Looking for Light, about photographer, Jane Bown, by Hayley Ellis Jones at the-f-word: Inconspicuous presence behind the camera. The promotional clip for the film from Youtube is below and there is a lot more about her to be found on The Guardian website: see Jane Bown in their […]
MoreI have just pre-ordered, release date 3 June 2014, what looks to be a stunning book full of brilliant fashion photography: Dior: The Legendary Images: Great Photographers and Dior. The publisher, Rizzoli, says: About This Book Reaching beyond the intimate setting of the fashion show, the photographer paints a portrait of haute couture that takes […]
MoreI finally got round to watching the DVD: Mademoiselle C this week and found it … disappointing. If you don’t know her, Carine Roitfeld was the editor of French Vogue for over a decade, having been Tom Ford’s muse and involved in myriad aspects of the fashion world prior to that. In 2011-12, she departed […]
MoreI’m wondering whether Easter is a good weekend to trek over to the Barbican – not my favourite venue – to see the fashion world of Jean-Paul Gaultier exhibition on there to 25 August 2014. Busy or not busy? Hard to call. Maybe less busy over the summer … Anyone seen it and like to […]
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