Donna Summer is an american singer and songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of music, earning the title “The Queen of Disco”. She became the first female artist to have four number-one singles in a thirteen-month period. Summer’s website states that she has sold more than 130 million records worldwide. Bad ass album art and bad ass bitch in general.
Pam Hogg during the mid eighties, still fueled by the excitement and freedom of Punk and “The Blitz”, she infiltrated the elitist ranks of the conventional fashion world with her self-taught wild brand of outrageous creations, establishing a highly respected fashion career and continued success with her internationally renowned shop in the heart of London’s Soho.
Her one man show at the the Kelvingrove Art Galleries in 1990 was the first fashion design exhibition to be held in the grand Glasgow Museum and claimed one of the highest public attendances.
RIP
MEOWWWWWW. Can’t wait to see Nicki rocking our Barbie Clones tank. Stay tuned kiddies!
Our fav movies from the 90’s. Paris Is Burning is a 1990 documentary film directed by Jennie Livingston. Filmed in the mid-to-late 1980s, it chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the poor, African American and Latino gay and transgendered community involved in it. Many consider Paris Is Burning to be an invaluable documentary of the end of the “Golden Age” of New York City drag balls, as well as a thoughtful exploration of race, class, and gender in America.
Well, metaphorically speaking.
Jodie Smith in her own words.
I’m the girl in this equation, and the boy is Los Angeles [though I fully intend on taking it by the horns and humping it into submission if it doesn't concede with me asking nicely]. Having met me, you probably know that I’m English. I was born in Peterborough, England and came to the States in the late 90’s because my parents split up. My mum has since remarried, and my dad has two kids in the UK (Translation, I have a shit ton of siblings, Brady Bunch style. Except the whole part about singing songs and living in the same house.
I went to university in Pittsburgh (uofpitt) and studied finance, because I thought it was the thing to do… well, it wasn’t. Because after I finished with a finance degree and got a job in corporate lending, I hated my life and my soul was slowly dying (yes, it was that dramatic. I chronicle this extensively in my blog). I guess I looked around and felt like I was surrounded by ordinary people. I didn’t want to be ordinary; to have an ordinary job, marry an ordinary man, have ordinary children, live in an ordinary house, and grow to resent everyone in my ordinary life because I felt I had some unfulfilled dream.
So I quit my job and I moved out here (Los Angeles). To model. To live, as opposed to exist. To get Los angeles, New York, London, Paris, Milan, Tokyo, the world to love me. Or something like that. I still figured now that the regret of “shoulda coulda woulda” is way worse than being broke, being hungry, or trying and failing miserably. So that’s my story so far!
I also went to Africa and did a documentary on malaria– [When The Night Comes]. Was the most incredible thing I’ve ever done. This is a teaser trailer. Go to the site and check out the trailer!
It’s 2010, big things but bigger dreams. Ode to the sex god – Prince, we can’t get over it.
I stumbled upon Zandra Rhodes while researching vintage textile books in college one day. Ms. Rhodes was definitely no ordinary woman in fashion, more like a staple icon and has majorly influenced the way textiles are being designed today. She was introduced to the world of fashion by her mother, who was a fitter in a Paris fashion house and a teacher at Medway College of Art. Rhodes’ own lifestyle has proved to be as dramatic, glamorous and extrovert as her designs. With her bright pink hair (later changed to a pink and sometimes red or other colours), theatrical makeup and art jewelry, she stamped her identity on the international world of fashion.
Mostly known for vintage designs – origami-folded coats and layered caftans that fetch $1,200 to $6,000 – are catnip to collectors, and have turned up at red-carpet events on personalities as disparate as Helen Mirren and Kate Moss.
In recent seasons, interpretations of Rhodes’ prints have surfaced on the runways of Dior, Miu Miu, Louis Vuitton and Fendi. This month interpretations of her looks found their way into Fashion Rocks, the fashion and music magazine from the publishers of Vogue.
LOUD, PINK, IN YOUR FACE. WE LOVE.
Muse of Serge Gainsbourg and his rebound after Brigitte Bardot. Jane Birkin created the most audacious mixes of music with the musician Serge Gainsborg in 1967. Check out her video below and see where Dimepiece is gathering ideas for Spring 2010.
P.S. In the 1980s a purse/bag – the Hermes Birkin Bag – was named after her.
