Posts Tagged ‘fashion’

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The film for the glorious McQueen 2010 collection, Directed by David Sims, with music by our friend Raymond Watts and Jon Gosling.
This is a beautiful film. We miss McQueen’s influence on what is too often the most vapid of art attacks, the fashion world. We still won’t give it up, though, and nor should you.

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot at Barbican Centre, London
Finches are just generally superb anyway, but give them instruments and they’re Einstuerzende Belew

There’s language and there’s speech. There’s chess and there’s a game of chess.
We’ve moved onto chess.