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Posted Jun. 16, 2008,
Cornered Style London Edition: Henry Holland
By Zandile Blay
WHO: Henry Holland
SPOTTED: At Wrigley's "Get Extra Close" Party in East London, hosted by Holland this past Tuesday.
WHAT HE'S WEARING: "House of Holland. Everything is House of Holland, from the blazer to the [Henry Holland for Stubbs and Wootton] shoes -- except the underwear."
WHAT HIS LOOK SAYS ABOUT HIM: "That I work for the House of Holland and I get lots of free clothes."
Posted May. 12, 2008,
Film Buffs and Fashionistas Unite In London
By Zandile Blay
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The Fashion in Film Festival celebrated its second year with a party in London's SoHo neighborhood last Thursday night. The event attracted a surprising mix of celebrities, fashion types, film buffs… and Kelly Osbourne! Marketa Uhlirova, co-founder of the festival, told me a bit about the history of the event. "About four years ago, I was at the Horse Hospital [a Soho House style clubhouse for London creatives] and Roger Burton -- who started the Horse Hospital -- and I were watching a movie called Who Are You Polly Magoo," Uhlirova explains. "We had two bootleg versions of the film and couldn't really work out exactly what was going on, but the movie seemed stunning. We thought it would be really nice to do something on fashion and film, so Roger said, 'Why don't you do a series on Fashion and Film for the Horse Hospital?'" Enter her close friend Christel Tsilibaris who along with Uhlirova is co-founder of the event. Several years later, Uhlirova, Tsilibaris and Burton have transformed this festival into a respected and lauded biennial event. It's traveled to major cities all over the world and after a brief visit to New York last year, is set to return in a few months. "We don't know if it will be in the winter or fall, but it will definitely be in New York," said Tsilibaris. "It will be at the Museum of the Moving Image and we are working with a fantastic team of board of directors.”
Posted Mar. 10, 2008,
About Last Night, London Edition: Jodie Harsh's Circus Party Featuring Pete Burns
By Zandile Blay
The Soho Revue Club, Soho's first topless bar, is certainly a fitting venue for Circus, the weekly party held by London gal-about-town Jodie Harsh. The magic happens on a dance floor surrounded by burgundy velvet couches, heavy matching draperies and mirrored walls. Topless pole dancers showed their skills, while resident DJs Knights of Sound spun a sick mix of hip-hop, dance and techno music. The party this past Friday was more decadent than usual as the legendary Pete Burns, London's gender-bending "music personality" was on hand as guest DJ. Of course, he played his trademark 1985 chart topper, "You Spin Me Right Round." As soon as he entered the DJ booth the audience which had been happily dancing and drinking promptly stopped and -- you guessed it -- spun right round to stare and take photos of Burns. You couldn't blame them, but from my point of view, the partiers, an eclectic mix of south London boys, dainty socialites, drag divas, and nu rave kids, were just as interesting to watch as the guest of honor. See some of them below.
Posted Jun. 4, 2007,
Damian Hirst's 100 Million Dollar Bling
By Kim Hastreiter
"For the Love of God", Damian Hirst's latest piece of brilliant and outrageous art, was unveiled at his latest show called "Beyond Belief," at Jay Jopling's new gallery, White Cube 3, in London's West End. The piece, which was seen in magazines and newspapers around the world this weekend is, according to the artist, the "most expensive piece of art ever made" (the price tag is 99 million dollars). It was even given a full page photo in the New York Times Magazine's Style section. Is this fashion? is this jewelry? Is this bling? WHO WILL BUY THIS? WHAT an amazing and loaded object to put out there in the world. He financed the work and he will make the dough on it when it sells. "For the Love of God" (called this because this is what Hirst's mum supposedly said when she heard about it for the first time) is a human skull, cast in platinum and encrusted in 8,500 diamonds, including a 50 karat pear-shaped gem plopped on the forehead of the skull.
I must admit, although many of my friends hate Hirst (especially his dead aniimal stuff), I think this is one of the most brilliant pieces of art I've seen in a while. Yes it's hype, but yes, it's also so so smart and says so much about art, the artworld, money, greed and our sick society. I just can't stop thinking about this amazing piece of art. I mean LOOK AT IT! It's completely blown my mind.
Posted Apr. 25, 2007,
Spinal Tap to Reunite!
By Shanon Kelley
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! The mock heavy metal band, Spinal Tap (immortalized by the ever-talented Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer) are reuniting to save the earth from global warming. The band itself, which includes Nigel Tufnel, David St. Hubbins and Derek Smalls, are playing as part of the Live Earth concert series at Wembley Stadium on July 7th. Man. Sometimes I really wish I lived in London.
Also in attendance will the fake documentarian Michael DeBergi, otherwise known as Rob Reiner. Apparently he's put together a new 15-minute film about the band's reunion which will air at the concert and also at the Tribeca Film Festival. "They're not that environmentally conscious, but they have heard of global warming," said Reiner. Oops, I mean DeBergi. "Nigel thought it was just because he was wearing too much clothing -- that if he just took his jacket off it would be cooler."
The new film focuses on what the boys have been doing with their lives since the band broke up -- Nigel has been raising miniature horses to race, but can't find jockeys small enough to ride them; David is now a hip-hop producer who also runs a colonic clinic; and Derek is in rehab for addiction to the Internet. Awesome!
Thanks to wtopnews.com for this tasty little tidbit of information. And thanks to imdb for the following quotes from This Is Spinal Tap!: