Red or Dead's 30th anniversary exhibition at the Dray Walk Gallery in Brick Lane was a pleasant surprise time warp, one that I didn't expect to enjoy as much as I did considering I've had a love/hate relationship with the brand. It began with pure enthusiasm in the mid-90s in my teen years when Red… Continue reading Red or Dead Turns 30
Category: History
The Eye Has to Travel
Prior to watching the documentary Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, directed by her granddaugher-in-law Lisa Immordino Vreeland, I had re-read Diana Vreeland's autobiography DV and re-flicked through the coffee table book of the same title (also compiled by Lisa Immordino) as well as Vreeland's authored picture-based volume on the quality of Allure. The… Continue reading The Eye Has to Travel
Legs n’ Things
>> I've been re-watching a ton of old episodes of Smack the Pony, an all-female sketch show that ran from 1999 to 2003 poking fun at all the hysterical tendancies of women and their relationships with men, that are as true today as they were back then. Watch this medley of sketches on the theme… Continue reading Legs n’ Things
Virgin Queen
One of the first portraits that I ever even remember seeing and memorising in its entirity was this painting of Queen Elizabeth I at the time of her coronation (annonymous painter). My mother had this Royal portraits phonebook that had this painting in it. I remember flicking through it constantly and picking this one out… Continue reading Virgin Queen