Category Archives: zeitgeist

2025 ➤ Champagne all round!

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Finalists at last night’s gathering at Champagne Charlie’s

❚ VIRTUALLY AT THE LAST MINUTE I decided to have an 80th birthday party yesterday at Champagne Charlie’s for a selected number of good friends from my adult years, most of whom had never met each other before. The whole evening was more fun than any of us imagined and it didn’t occur to us to start taking photos until quite a few guests had left. So here we see the 22 stalwarts who knew how to enjoy a premiere cru Champagne for three hours. No am not going to name them all but as you can tell, they’re a rum mix. And they probably say the same about me.

Marcel Duchamp, birthday cake

Where life starts: My mentor Marcel Duchamp

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2024 ➤ Original outlaws celebrate their blasts from the past

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Outlaws: superb gallery of the exhibition – Photos at Facebook © Franceska

❚ HERE’S A REVIEW OF THE NEW OUTLAWS SHOW, written by Franceska Luther King at Facebook yesterday…

<< Fabulous night at the private view of Outlaws: Fashion Renegades of 80s London at the Fashion and Textile Museum on Thursday evening. Curated by the amazing Martin Green and James Lawler and NJ Stevenson with amazing mannequins by David Cabaret. It was a very special night, a gathering of all the fashion crowd from the mid 80s, celebrating club culture and true creativity. Such good times!!!

So great to be included with a piece of my collection for Joseph back in the day, silk sari shirts. Post Demob designs and after my backing with Tanya Sarne and Jane Whiteside, I ventured on with my own collections sold to Jones, Whistles , Brown’s etc then my own little retail outlet in Kensington Market. So great to see all the familiar faces and see beautiful blasts from the past.

40 years later! And so sad that we have already lost so many… Great to see Joan Burey, Corinne Drewery, Greg Davis, John Richmond, Sue Tilley, Eve Ferret, Mark Moore, DarlaJane Gilroy, Simon Reeves, Daniel Conway, Derek Ridgers, David Johnson, Andrew Logan, Hamish Bowles, Sophie Parkin, Dean Bright, Tolan Hüseyin-Halleck, Paul Gorman, Robert Leach, Vivienne Austin, Richard Kaby.

Amazing clothes by Richard Torry, Rachel Auburn, BodyMap, Pam Hogg, Elmaz Huseyin, Sue Came, English Eccentrics, John Galliano, Katharine Hamnett, Kahn & Bell, Whittiker Malem, Dean Bright, Judy Blame, John Moore, Christopher Nemeth, Mark & Syrie, Leigh Bowery, John Crancher, Franceska King and many more!  >>

➢ Click through to Facebook to see all 18 images
in Franceska’s Outlaws post

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Outlaws: true creativity and amazing mannequins – Photo © Franceska


➢ Visit Outlaws: Fashion Renegades of 80s London
at the Fashion and Textile Museum

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2024 ➤ London’s Evening Standard publishes my obituary of Linard the wild child of UK fashion

Stephen Linard, Blitz Kids, fashion, New Romantics, Swinging80s,

Photo by Kate Garner

❚ A LAVISHLY DESIGNED OBITUARY of Stephen Linard written by me appears in today’s Evening Standard online and stands as a well-deserved memoir for one of my best friends…
➢ The life of Stephen Linard – A flamboyant Canvey Island boy who went on to shape the Blitz Kids silhouette in the 1980s

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1963 ➤ Where were The Beatles the day Kennedy was shot?

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Beatles live onstage in Stockton, Nov 22, 1963: George Harrison at the microphone on the night Kennedy was shot. Note the amplifier perched on a chair!

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❚ WHERE? LIVE, ONSTAGE IN STOCKTON-ON-TEES. Count the simple Vox amps behind the band and note how one is perched on a chair! This picture was taken on Friday Nov 22 1963 at the 2,400-seat Globe theatre when the Beatles played the art-deco venue on their first nationwide tour. The band’s half-hour set during twice-nightly performances at 6.15 and 8.30 was supported by seven other acts with tickets priced from 6 shillings to 10s 6d, when a workman’s weekly wage might be £7….

➢ Read on at Shapersofthe80s:
1963 ➤ With The Beatles the day Kennedy was shot

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2023 ➤ One savvy fan rates Kid Creole’s London extravaganza

Kid Creole, Coconuts, August Darnell, Boisdale restaurant, London, concert, Andy Polaris,

Backstage after the London show: Animal Nightlife’s singer Andy Polaris meets August Darnell to thank him for a lifetime of inspiration

Not only a handshake and a hug for Andy Polaris from the showman that is August Darnell, but now a taster from his review of the evening in Canary Wharf…

August Darnell is the real deal and the soul survivor of the band Kid Creole and the Coconuts that has evolved over the years from its original cast in the early 80s but wisely maintained its winning formula… At a club night in London’s Canary Wharf his talented musicians provided the muscular sound, the perfect funky backbone which was always a key element of their success. Straight out the gate the Coconuts came to slay with well executed dance moves, while a physical aerobic workout combined with vocal prowess to result in a remarkable feat. I can only think of the Ikettes with Tina Turner who shared these onstage dynamics. My enthusiasm for this dazzling choreography – created by founder member Adriana Kaegi – is fired by the sheer inventiveness at the beating heart of the band… On stage tonight we heard Broadway Rhythm, Animal Crackers and Flip Flop and Fly but of course the loudest cheers were for the hits Stool Pigeon and Annie I’m Not Your Daddy. Both are mini musical masterpieces that buoyed up the audience with more snazzy footwork and infectious brass…

➢ Click to continue reading at Apolarisview

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