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Comment on ➤ The day Gary Kemp reduced hard-nosed Guardianistas to tears by Dean Cook

Dean Cook — Fri, 25 May 2012 07:30:37 +0000

Clare was my first crush, and i had a girlfriend who looked like and wore similar style clothes even a french berret, wish i was 15 again.XX

Comment on ➤ Proustian frissons aplenty as Derek Ridgers’ photographs revisit three decades by Dean Cook

Dean Cook — Fri, 25 May 2012 07:22:26 +0000

There’s a book in this somewhere, here’s wishing.

Comment on ➤ Student verdicts on the new Central Saint Martins, contrasted with LCC’s sad home by ros

ros — Sat, 19 May 2012 21:06:58 +0000

“lifestyle not education” … is it a circus or a university?

Comment on 2012 ➤ “Very doubtful” — Tony Hadley on the future of Spandau by Eriction

Eriction — Fri, 18 May 2012 21:38:01 +0000

Ha Ha , “very doubtful” until a bill needs paying.
Loose Women ? Gotta love Tony.

Comment on 1983, Hockney’s new vision of the world by john wallis

john wallis — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:20:43 +0000

I remember vividly the impact reading that Face interview made on me 30 something years ago. Mind boggling.

Comment on 1928–2012 ➤ Sassoon’s revolution: No teasing. No hair spray. Just the cut. by Ant Wench Insect Nation

Ant Wench Insect Nation — Thu, 10 May 2012 09:41:33 +0000

I’m 57 and still have a crystal clear memory of how I dressed at 10 years old in 1964 — just a child but a devout Mod bird… Sassoon bob, a child’s version of Courrèges go-go boots, black fishnet stockings, white Poor Boy sweater, black-and-white check mini-skirt slung low on the hips with a wide, black patent leather belt, Yardley Eau de London parfum, Yardley brand “Slicker” frosted hot-pink lipstick. My parents sent me to Catholic grammar school and we all had to wear dork-y, scratchy wool, frumpy, green-grey plaid uniforms except ONE day a month we could wear street clothes to Catholic school.

On “free dress day”, I always showed up dressed to the nines in full Mod regalia and drove the nuns absolutely nuts. The Mother Superior tried to send me home to change my clothes into my Catholic school-girl uniform, but I told the old bat “My mum and dad are Mods — my parents bought me my Mod clothes — so go pound sand”. The Mother Superior realized there was nothing she could do about how I dressed or my Sassoon bob hair cut — but in retaliation, she confiscated my Barbie doll. Barbie had TITS, so this apparently was going to send me on the road to Hell or High water.

Vidal Sassoon had such a huge impact on my aesthetic sensibilities when I was a child. It was Vidal Sassoon, Mary Quant and watching Audrey Hepburn in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” which radicalized me in the 1960s. It wasn’t the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement or grassroots liberation movement that radicalized me — it was Vidal Sassoon, Mary Quant and Audrey Hepburn.

Bless Vidal Sassoon — he’s up in heaven doing haircuts for the blessed and the bonnie.

Shapersofthe80s writes: Brilliant, Ant Wench. Thanks for such telling detail. Love the mere mention of Yardley Eau de London !

Comment on 1980 ➤ Birth of The Face: magazine that launched a generation of stylists and style sections by Catherine Griffiths

Catherine Griffiths — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:02:22 +0000

[...] processed as black and white prints. Slow exposure, extreme angle, our cues were taken from i-D, Blitz, The Face – cult literature we aspired to in our practice as nascent graphic designers. Thierry Mugler’s [...]

Comment on JULY ➤ 30 or so years ago today by Sparks

Sparks — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:39:22 +0000

I have spent many happy hours doing the comeback 80s scene in London. I have been lucky enough to see incredible bands in venues seating less than 300 people putting me within fainting distance of 80s acts like Blondie, B-52s, Spandau Ballet, Pretenders, Ramones, Sparks, Bryan Ferry, Squeeze … just recollecting those amazing times gives me delight.

Comment on ➤ Smile please, Derek — you’re one of the Sunday Times Mag’s 60 ace snappers in its birthday show by >Re: PHOTO » Blog Archive » Oomska!

>Re: PHOTO » Blog Archive » Oomska! — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:50:19 +0000

[...] back to Derek Ridgers, yesterday I went to the exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery where the Sunday Times is celebrating 50 [...]

Comment on THE FACE, i-D, MEDIA by Janette

Janette — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:07:13 +0000

Love this posting – The Face was a great mag – Nick Logan really was ‘looking for the kids who participate in the music scene’ – fans and bands – he published my photo of the ‘Islington Twins’ and many other scenes when no one else would