andy & edie are nyc

In honour of holding on to that new york feeling as long as I can after just getting back from a week of that blasting rushing fun fun city---the original superstars.

We Love You Isabella B

Very sad to have just learned that Isabella Blow, fashion raconteur and great discover/supporter of among others Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan and milliner Philip Treacy, has died at an unseasonably young 48. In these times it seems like an impossibility to see her revolutionary like again. We should all celebrate her by wearing something we normally wouldn't...be brave!

Tralala

In honour of my impending trip to NYC, and in appreciation of this remarkable book that certainly has horrific elements...and to one of the most memorable film performances ever, by Jennifer Jason Leigh.

The Nightmare Factory

Thomas Ligotti is a modern horror short-story writer whose first publications came out in the late 80s, and were a profound influence on the genre and I think on anyone who reads him. If you are familair with the field you will always remember the first Ligotti story you read (mine was "Alice's Last Adventure' from Prime Evil) . His style can be arch, dry, really disturbing and very funny. He is one of the really important ones. A film adaptation of his story 'The Frolic' is forthcoming, as is a graphic novel of his highly recommended collection 'The Nightmare Factory'. Lovely, dark and deep.

The Spunky Androgyne

Isn't Agyness Deyn adorable?...she reminds me a little of Sara Stockbridge, one of the stars of i-D magazine in the 80s and a favourite of Vivienne Westwood's. They're both got a sweet, individualistic attitude.

Agyness above, Sara below.

The Queen of England

Boudicca is a British fashion label: a cool, sexy couple that make sharp, graphic clothes.

A New Wall of Sound

This is Amy Winehouse, a tattooed, not-so-nice little Jewish girl from the east end of London, whose voice is a gravelly and very knowing anomaly. The production on her second album 'Back to Black' is a spit-perfect rendition of 60s Spector-sound - the slightly hollow, raucous boom, with lots of brass, and claps, and rhythm. She looks, and seems to live, the part.