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"It's Fab-ray, not Fa-bare-ass!"
As dear Muscato might allude: "Silently, slowly, in a Rococo apartment in the "Embassies Quarter" of Paris - Rue Bénouville, close to where The Windsors lived in exile - a gnarled hand* reaches for an...
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Recycling frogs, a hippo, beautiful buttocks, Livia and a floral astronomer
Not quite the behaviour one might expect from the Public Astronomer The venerable - and marvellous - Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology's Objects of Desire showcase has become not just a fixture in...
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Mothers' Day
Rafaela Ottiano (4th March 1888 – 18th August 1942)It's Mothering Sunday!Hope you remembered the flowers - she won't be happy if you forgot...
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Beware...
...The Idas of March![L-r: Ida Barr, Ida Lupino, Ida Clough]Carry On Cleo"Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!"Ides of March explained (on Wikipedia)
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This weekend, I am mostly dressing casual...
...like this weekend's birthday girl, the fabulous Brigitte Helm!If any living person could have been described as "Art Deco", it was her.Brigitte Helm (17th March 1906 – 11th June 1996)
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The wearing of the green
Loretta YoungNicole Kidman's green parrot frock from the Screen Actors' Guild awards 2017Jackie Kennedy wearing a pale green Givenchy dressHM The Queen in 1954Vivien Leigh's green "curtain" dress from...
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The Queen of Eurovision is dead
"My whole career really started by accident. There was a time when I was on the BBC three times a week - it seems very strange to think of that now, but it was the only thing people watched."And so,...
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Lo! The bird is on the wing
Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of SpringThe Winter Garment of Repentance fling:The Bird of Time has but a little wayTo fly - and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.- The Rubáiyát of Omar KhayyámThe...
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This weekend, I am mostly dressing casual...
...like the beautiful (and ultimately notorious; he was one of the plotters who killed Rasputin) Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston!He was a divinely decadent character, as these...
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That living-on-the-edge quality
“All the things that have happened in my life are meant to happen. Having done the ’Rent A Diva’ bit, and having had some success with the Pet Shop Boys thing, there was no more mileage in it. I’m not...
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This weekend, I am mostly dressing casual...
...like Her Majesty the Queen, on the occasion of her 92nd birthday.Gawd bless ya, Ma'am!
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Hedda says...
..."I think today should be a 'Say Something Hat' day, don't you?""I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece."Hedda Hopper (born Elda Furry, 2nd May 1885 – 1st February...
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Life is a party. Dress for it.*
"The things that make us different, those are our superpowers - every day when you walk out the door and put on your imaginary cape and go out there and conquer the world; because the world would not...
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Create a new style
"I live life in the margins of society, and the rules of normal society don't apply to those who live on the fringe.""My goal is never to copy. Create a new style."From The Art Story website:Tamara de...
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I even sang in my dreams
Was there ever a more truly Wagnerian singer than Birgit Nilsson..? It seems unlikely that her Isolde and Brünnhilde will ever be equalled, let alone surpassed. She brought to these roles all the...
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Amazing Grace
The most scary woman on the planet - Miss Grace Jones is 70 years old today!Time to get down on your knees...Grace Jones - On Your KneesGrace Beverly Jones (born 19th May 1948)See our previous exhibit...
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They don't compare
"My gay audience has been with me from the beginning.""I'm just a natural flirt, but I don't see it in a sexual way. A lot of the time I'm like an overexcited puppy.""Let's just say that I am aware my...
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God bless Lili St. Cyr
"Sex is currency. What's the use of being beautiful if you can't profit from it?"It is the centenary today of Willis Marie Van Schaack, better known as the legendary Miss Lili St. Cyr, Queen of the...
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