On the backdrop of the stage, an erotic film of a beautiful model with a snake writhing across her breast is projected. Enormous predatory robot cameras prowl the catwalk filming the parade of models that stalk by in their evermore exquisite, otherworldly ensembles, balanced on vertiginous ‘armadillo shoes’ like space-age chopines. Occasionally the cameras turn [...]
Categories: exclusive,exhibition,fashion,word
Tagged: Alexander McQueen, Beauty, Christina Kruse, Christophe Haleb, contemporary art, crypt, Cyrille Weiner, Dom Agius, dress, Elsa Schiaparelli, Erick Soler, exhibition, fashion, fashion editor, Glamour, Harper's Bazaar, Hollywood, Katarina Mootich, Lingering Whispers, Louis Vuitton, opulence, photograph, Plato's Atlantis, Predrag Pajdic, provocative, Ricci/Forte, Salvador Dali, Sang Bleu, Sarah Bailey, St Pancras Church, Wallis Simpson
- Published:
- 01/03/2010 – 8:45 pm
- Author:
- By The Pandorian
Images: © Steven Meisel Vogue Italua Stardust with Viktoriya Sasonkina styled by Andrew Richardson September 2008
Categories: fashion,photography
Tagged: Andrew Richardson, fashion, film star, Glamour, Hollywood, model, photography, Star, stardust, Steven Meisel, Viktoriya Sasonkina, Vogue, Vogue Italua
- Published:
- 16/02/2010 – 11:31 pm
- Author:
- By The Pandorian
For who can wonder that man should feel a vague belief in tales of disembodied spirits wandering through those places which they once dearly affected, when he himself, scarcely less separated from his old world than they, is for ever lingering upon past emotions and bygone times, and hovering, the ghost of his former self, [...]
Categories: contemporary art,design,exclusive,exhibition
Tagged: Al Giga, Barney Ashton, Carolyn Cowan, champagne, Christophe Haleb, Christopher Stribley, crypt, Cyrille Weiner, Daniel Holfeld, designers, Devin Elijah, Dom Agius, Dreams, Emiliano Lazzarotto, Erick Soler, Errikos Andreu, fashion, Fran Dileo, Frances Goodman, Glamour, international artists, Jannis Tsipoulanis, jewellery, Joachim Baldauf, Katarina Mootich, Katharina Hesse, Kobi Israel, Lingering Whispers, London, Maflohé Passedouet, magic, Manuel Estevez, Mark Mander, Mauro Santucci, Milijana Babic, Pascale Lafay, performers, Petra Reimann, photographers, Predrag Pajdic, Ricci/Forte, Roberto Foddai, Scooter Laforge, spectacular venue, St Pancras Church, Stefania Bonatelli, Tapio Snellman, Tupac Martir, Virginie Puertolas-Syn, Wolfgang Stiller, Wren Britton, Yvonne de Rosa
- Published:
- 10/01/2010 – 3:53 pm
- Author:
- By The Pandorian
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. [Oscar Wilde] In Biology, mimicry is the similarity in appearance an organism takes on from another that affords it concealment and protection. This is only modestly applicable in the case of Mark Mander [...]
Categories: exclusive,interview
Tagged: alter ego, audience, Barbie, BBC, Clementine, Clementine The Living Fashion Doll, fashion, Glamour, interview, Little Angel Puppet Theatre, London, Mark Mander, Norwich, Oscar Wilde, performance, personality, Polari, Polari Magazine, Predrag Pajdic, public, puppet, puppeteer, scene, stage, Star, Strictly Come Dancing, Technicolor, theatre, Top of the Pops, Toy Theatre, TV, Vicky Barkess
- Published:
- 10/01/2010 – 1:01 am
- Author:
- By The Pandorian
The first issue of Wallpaper* Magazine was published in 1996 and the magazine’s take on postmodern aesthetics was an instant success. In 1999 Joachim Baldauf joined Wallpaper* and was responsible for some 10 covers and more then 30 editorials until 2001. As Tyler Brule, founding editor of Wallpaper*, once stated, Joachim Baldauf added a “very [...]
Categories: event,exhibition,photography
Tagged: Berlin, Claudia Seidel, cover, fame, Forgotten Bar Project, Glamour, habit, Joachim Baldauf, magazine, photography, style, success, taste, visual, Wallpaper, Wallpaper* Magazine
- Published:
- 08/12/2009 – 12:13 am
- Author:
- By The Pandorian
This November, prepare to set sail (literally and figuratively) for the most extravagant and fanciful gathering of castaways, sailors, glittering mermaids, sea sirens, pirates, romantic sea captains and scalawags ever known to New York! Dances of Vice Festival returns on November 20 – 22 2009 in a three-day nautical themed flight of fancy that will [...]
Categories: costumes,dance,festival,live art,party,performance
Tagged: Alexandra Snyder, Antonia Pugliese, ballroom dancing, BASTET, classical, Company XIV, costume, cultire, Dame Darcy, dance, Dances of Vice, decadence, DJ PUREVILE, fashion, fencing, festival, Glamour, Hey Sailor, Jared Kirby, Martinez Academy of Arms, music, New York, Nouveau cabaret, opera, opulence, performance art, puppetry, Ragwater Revue, Revue Noir, rock, SHIEN LEE, Starkall, The Hellblinki Sextet, Tina Cassati, vendors, Victorian
- Published:
- 10/11/2009 – 5:15 pm
- Author:
- By The Pandorian