1979

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Now playing: David Bowie - Fashion

Worlds end

Malcolm McLaren (1946-2010)

Opening a new window everyday

Fashion's Most Wanted's post Style Icons - Talitha Getty. Fabulous. But so is everything else.



*Opening a new window everyday - a quote from Auntie Mame that reflects her philosophy of Live, Live, Live!


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Now playing: Bryan Ferry - The Chosen One
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Alice doesn't live here anymore

Port of Spain, Trinidad BWI, at the turn of the 20th century.


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Something for the weekend

Neil Jordan's Breakfast on Pluto comes tearing out of the gate like a pink poodle on speed. Rattling through chapters from Patrick McCabe's novel - all 36 of them, individually captioned - it relates the picaresque adventures of a young Irish transvestite called Kitten (Cillian Murphy), taking us from his rural Irish childhood, dumped on the doorstep of the parish priest (Liam Neeson), to his quest for his mother (Eva Birthistle) between bombings and cabaret shows in glam 1970s London. - Tim Robey





I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about. - Oscar Wilde


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Petrology

Lot No 1282
Series of five graduated polyester Rock lights, circa 1970, by Andre Cazenave. Most bearing a paper label to the underside - A. Cazenave, Disderot-Editeur, Paris. Made in France - the smallest h. 5", dia. 7", the largest h. 12-1/2", dia. 19".

New Orleans Auction Galleries, Inc.

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More ways to waste time

It would be a crime not to explore the wealth that is Australian cinema. Each decade Australia manages to produce some of the most memorable films of the period (unfortunately the same cannot be said for its music). Along with the internationally well known Mad Max (1979) and the relatively little known, but highly acclaimed, Storm Boy (1976) these were the stars of the 70s:


Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)


Sunday Too Far Away (1975)


The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)


My Brilliant Career (1979)


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Now playing on iTunes: Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out of My Head
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Tango'd

French 1970s moulded plastic sofa by Prevost and Favriau.
Specially commissioned for Neptune Tower Defence, France.

From The Warehouse.

Tango'd


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More ways to waste time

The Holly Woodlawn Story: A Low Life in High Heels





Broken Goddess, signed limited edition




Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn in an homage to the silent screen. Shot in the summer of 1973, Broken Goddess became one of the great underground New York films of its period.


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Christmas Eve

The Carol Burnett Show - Merry Christmas Mama

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More ways to waste time

Born Armin Hagen Freiherr von Hoyningen-Huene, but better known as Peter Berlin. In 2005 filmmaker Jim Tushinski premiered his feature-length documentary That Man: Peter Berlin at the Berlin International Film Festival.




Lawrence Hellman, producer of That Man: Peter Berlin, talks to David Lamble of ClaudesPlace.com.

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The future that never was

The future as it was seen through the camera lens of 1970s British television . It was not only bright, it was also camp. Camp as a row of tents, in fact. The then creative husband and wife team of Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson of Thunderbirds fame were responsible for both Space:1999 and UFO.


UFO




Pierre Paulin's Tounge Chair


de Sede like sofas and chairs








Space:1999




Joe Colombo's Elda Armchair, 1963






Gae Aulenti's Pileo floor lamp, 1972

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Finally

The Boys in the Band becomes available on DVD November 11, 2008. Irrespective of all the PC self-loathing, not positive, fair depiction, blah, blah, blah bullshit this is a great film. And, it is staged in what must be the definitive New York apartment.

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Now playing: Kings of Tomorrow - Finally
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They took the idols and smashed them, the Fairbankses, the Gilberts, the Valentinos! And who've we got now? Some nobodies!

What Becomes a Legend Most: The Blackglama Story





What becomes a legend most? One of the most memorable fashion advertising campaigns, ever. Launched in 1968, the ads for Blackglama furs answered the question with photographs of legends wrapped in mink. Shot by Richard Avedon and, after 1972, Bill King.

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Mrs Clark sans the Mister

Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy by David Hockney

The Enid Marx of her generation, Celia Birtwell is the reigning queen of British textile design. A true bohemian at heart, her designs echo the spirit of the Bloomsbury Group.


Little Animals


Icon trellis


Pembridge Paisley

For more of her Classic, Couture, Jacobean, and Pop Story Collections visit Celia Birtwell.

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More ways to waste time

Milk

You gotta give 'em hope

I haven't seen Milk, but oh how I want to. I feel as if I had been there, and in a way I had. The year was 1978, we had just moved permanently to San Francisco, and I was a freshman in high school. I remember it clearly, the special assembly, the breast beating and rending of cloth was all because Mayor George Moscone had been killed. Harvey Milk was barely mentioned. Even then, the inequality of that struck me.

History seems to have redressed the balance.




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