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Farewell, the Rajah of Rhinestones
Very sad news - the most glittering of all costume designers, beloved of "our kind of Diva" for generations, Mr Bob Mackie has departed for Fabulon - where, no doubt all the dearly departed doyennes...
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Rubens with jokes
It's the centenary today of the birth of that most beloved of British artists, the wonderful, quirky and humorous Beryl Cook! Described by Victoria Wood as "Rubens with jokes", Beryl Cook's work was...
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Fashion’s house of surrealism
The exhibition Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art that we went to see yesterday at the V&A museum was - as ever, with the expert curation they have always employed - a superb, comprehensive, and...
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Don't get strung out by the way I look
More sad news. RIP, Mr Tim Curry (19th April 1946 – 25th August 2026)
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If I hadn't been a woman, I'd be a drag queen for sure
"If I hadn't been a woman, I'd be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I'd be dressing up in them high heels and putting on the big hair. I'd be like Ru Paul.""The way I see it, if you want...
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"I have to be seen to be believed"
[click any photo to enlarge]The sumptuous exhibition Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Style, that we went to see with our mother on Saturday was everything one could have asked for, and more. Frocks and...
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Surprising, indeed
Scanning the "hatched, matched and despatched" columns (as is my wont), I came across the name Michael Aspinall above], which I was sure I knew from somewhere. His meagre three-paragraph Wikipedia bio...
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Well, thank you very much, Jerry!
"She delivered every line as if it were a jewelled crown on a velvet cushion. An utter genius." author Lissa Evans A "national treasure" is a term often bandied-about - and often the epithet fits. None...
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"Get out of this house before I kill you!"
And so, farewell then Miss Ann Blyth, who has pouted her way off to Fabulon, at the ripe old age of 98. [To be honest, I didn't even realise she was still alive...]Despite making dozens of films,...
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Cut the heat
From The Garden by H.D. [aka bisexual avant-garde modernist poet Hilda Doolittle]:O wind, rend open the heat, cut apart the heat, rend it to tatters.Fruit cannot drop through this thick air -fruit...
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The colour has faded...
Such sad news today of the death of David Hockney, whose vivid paintings of Californian swimming pools and lush countryside always left the viewer feeling the warmth of the sun, who has departed - fag...
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Timeless
Good grief!Or Patron Saint of Kitsch, Bob Mackie's #1 fan, the ageless, timeless Cher has blown out eighty candles on her cake! There are few words Ican say about the great lady, her 60-year career,...
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Flott has flown
Sad news today. The utterly delightful, the sublimely talented soprano Dame Felicity Lott [known to all her friends by the affectionate nickname "Flott"] has traversed the proscenium arch for the last...
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Whom no man will ever possess
And so, farewell to that most waspish American of film critics and television host Mr Rex Reed, who has swished off up the glittering stairway to Fabulon. Who? I hear you say... Largely an unknown...
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Sweetie, darling!
...it's Dame Joanna Lumley's 80th birthday today!!All hail!Many happy returns Dame Joanna Lamond Lumley (born 1 May 1946)[More here]
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I say unbelievable shit and no one ever gets mad
Photo by Christopher MyersIt is - remarkably - the 80th birthday today of "The Pope of Trash" Mr John Walters, creator of the outrageous classic films Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, Polyester,...
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A meeting of true minds?
Anna Wintour and Meryl Streep wearing Prada on the cover of Vogue. [Photograph: Annie Leibovitz/Vogue - click to enlarge]Read more in The Guardian
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