Madame says: I CAN’T HELP WORRYING…..
…about Courtney Love. I always have and I prolly always will.
In a few short months she has gone from the utterly fierce, top, to the skeletal above….she’s almost on a par with Cher for the amount of comebacks a woman can have, and I was loving this new svelte Courtney, but in characteristic fashion it’s gone too far.
She’s my favourite fabulous monster. I love her unconditionally even though I know if I ever met her she’d probably be completely vile and mean to me.
She’s one of the most intelligent, original ground-breaking grrrls in rock music, all her references are spot-on for me and hit me right where I live - I think we’re the same age which might have something to do with it culturally - she invented the Kinderwhore look for god’s sake….. she wouldn’t give a flying f*** what I think but still, Courtney I’m worried about you.
Madame says: A TRIUMPH!
The only word to describe Ponystep Paris at Regine’s last weekend!
Stuffed to the rafters with high-end model crumpet, fashion-makers, fashion shakers and the ubiquitous Igor who I was so happy to have captured gently playing with the Regine disco ball atop his death-defying fashion stilts which set him a good four feet above the heads and shoulders of all the other party-goers!
He really is one of that rare breed of club kids, who deserve an award for duties above and beyond the call of club duty…I also saw, I think, Paris only tranny two nights in a row, at the Cha Cha and Regine’s. This is a fact that disconcerts me about Paris. Why are there no, or so few, trannies here? Seriously, I knew something was missing. I’ve only ever seen one, and a fabulous one at that with her own shoulder-length hair and tuxedo jacket with nothing on underneath….but she can’t be the only one??????
Madame says: THE SOUND OF SILENCE
Yes, I know….not a peep out of me all week!!! It has been a whirlwind of a one in my defence….Paris was SUPERB! My first Buvez Madison with Hugues and Olivier in the extraordinary Curio Parlour, a tiny basement cocktail bar (yes I know, back in the basement!) which Hugues decorated with confetti, balloons and candy bowls in my honour!
My cocktail, the “Madame” was rather tart but with real gold on the surface - I leave you to make your own interpretation of that!!!!
Here is Anne-Sophie with real gold on her upper lip, the best part about a sip from my cocktail!!!
On an ill-advised tourist after-hours mince about in Paris, Hugues insisted we go to the 24 hour restaurant for an amazing deep-fried camembert….at 4.30am!!!! My body didn’t know what had hit it, especially after 3 or 4 “Madame”s and Saturday was spent curled around a real french toilet, heaving into it at regular intervals!
Hugues took some lovely photos of the lead-up to my malaise….how sophisticated I looked BEFORE….happily there are no photos of AFTER!!!!
Madame says: GET YOUR BUGGER’S MAUVE QUENTIN T!
This is the first t shirt I’ve done for M.Goldstein and I’m SO EXCITED! It’s Quentin Crisp depicted in bugger’s mauve (what else) and will be available from Saturday at 67 Hackney Road.
The first of many counter-culture icons I will be presenting you with….you have no idea how long I’ve wanted a Quentin Crisp t shirt and I’ve proper minced around town today with pride!!
Very short run, one size only at the minute but I’m doing a bigger one soon….I have several gentlemen friends I know will NEED one of these t shirts!!
Get ‘em while they’re HOT!…they’re lovely.
P.S. T shirts are Earth Positive manufactured using renewable green energy from wind and solar power and 100% organic cotton fyi.
Madame says: I’VE PLAYED SOME TOILETS IN MY TIME…
But prettymuch any venue pales into mediocrity when you compare it with the view my friend Bradley is treated to every time he DJs at his party Crisco Disco at Roosterfish just a few blocks away from Venice Beach in LA!
Look at that! Apparantly people frequently cross the makeshift dancefloor pushing a bike or on rollerskates at this, LA’s longest running gay bar.
Think Horsemeat Disco with palm trees and Cape Cod cocktails! Once a month Brad, Glen, DJ SaMo and Chris Garcia (with special guests) get the crowd bumping and grinding on the patio and around the pool table. Join their Facebook group and next time you’re in LA,look ‘em up and give it your best “Cruising” moves if the flyer is any indication.
Note: I watched Cruising again recently (quelle surprise, it’s one of my top 10 movies!) and imho it’s the dancing which gives Pacino away as a straight playing a gay…..even still it’s in my top 10!!!!
Madame says: KEEP UP!
As excited as I am about going to Paris at the weekend to DJ (not just at Ponystep on Saturday night but also at the Curio Parlour with my friends Buvez Madison on Friday), I am slightly gutted to be missing Peaches being shopgirl at Tatty Devine on Saturday afternoon!
You see, I hadn’t been keeping up with the ladies’ blog so had no idea about the impending Peaches frenzy at the weekend, so I’ve now nestled them firmly in my links so I don’t miss out on any more of the numerous amazing collabs they’ve got going on.
Had a lovely morning of tea and Tunnocks with the girls, followed by a bizarre trip to the Duke of Yuke where I waited with Jack Black for Matthew the proprietor to show up…now listening to Bilitis which I picked up in the second-hand record store next door and have been dying to get hold of for ages….unfortunately not the fold-out version but it still has the hot sapphic David Hamilton cover and the naked girl on the back with her legs either side of the tree trunk…I saw that for the first time in about 1978 or something, once seen never forgotten!!!
Even bumped into Emma while sitting at the bus stop at Liverpool Street with a chatty bunch of OAPs.
So a good day all round…..
Madame says: WHO KNEW?
When I did my first video for Nahid to put on You Tube almost a year ago, obviously it was an attempt to spread the word about her power-plates studios, Good Vibes to….who knew who?
As I uploaded this, our latest video over the weekend I was flabbergasted to see that our first one had over 34,000 views racked up!!!!! That’s a more than respectable figure, and yes, she is a hot babe in a leotard but it just shows you the power of the internet doesn’t it???? Have a look at the whole series and get vibrating!!!
Madame says: STOP THIS HAPPENING!
I was trawling through flickr looking for photographs of St Martin’s College, actually couldn’t find a single one! This random photo by tedward2023 came up and probably has nothing to do with the college at all but I think it’s a wonderful joyful photograph and that generally if we hulahooped more as a nation, stupid notions like CLOSING ST MARTINS COLLEGE ON CHARING CROSS ROAD wouldn’t get a look in!!!!
Seriously, St Martin’s has produced some of our finest artists/journalists: Alexander McQueen, Peter Blake, Hamish Bowles, M.I.A., Jarvis Cocker, Billy Childish to name a few….and they’re trying to sell the Charing Cross Road premises in order to relocate to smaller premises in Kings Cross.
St Martin’s is part of the Soho community and has been for 150 years. Don’t let Soho fall even flatter and further into decline than it already has. The artists and creatives from St Martins have been an important part of the unique make-up of a dwindling hub of eccentricity and should stay right where they are!
When I had my boutique underneath Maison Bertaux I could see firsthand how fabulous it was to see actors, musicians and media types of today rubbing shoulders with the students who would be filling their shoes in the future.
Soho is dying…this will kill her. Sign the petition today.
Madame says: (DIS)HONOURABLE MENTION
Oh god….In Mojo’s Britpop special collectors edition there’s Posh……on the Missing In Action page along with loads of other bands you’ve never heard of!!!!
Apparantly I was in the MACARANA video for f*** sake. How dare they! It was Jimmy Nail and I was payed the princely sum of £15!!!
Relegated to “where bra they now” section…..onwards and upwards……
Madame says: LIVING THE DREAM
We went on a trip to Northamptonshire at the weekend to visit Alex, our friend who lives at Coton Manor. Rather she’s returned to the family nest to fulfil a dream that’s evolved from an idea to convert a stable into a small kitchen centred around a wood burning oven into this incredible pizza heaven lit by a single chandelier!
It’s typical of Alex that she’s imported the finest Italian flour, is teaching herself to throw her pizza dough and that the place feels like an established, artisan gem of a place already!
I think the secret to pizza success is not to offer too many choices but concentrate on making the ones you do INCREDIBLE! I went for a traditional Margherita which was so thin, crisp and perfect - really and truly the best pizza I’ve ever tasted! Watching the whole process with a Bellini in hand and chatting to one of your best mates while she laboured over your crispy treat obviously added to the specialness of said pizza….even the way Alex has mastered the temperature changes of the fire was inspirational!!!! As the kids pottered around talking to Rodney the parrot and eating strawberries from the bush it did feel like we’d walked into some kind of Shangri-La, also the weather couldn’t have been more perfect - we were all completely blissed out!
Her hands are burned and blistered, she can’t watch anyone eat one of her creations as it makes her too nervous, but I’ve never seen Alex happier. It’s like she’s found her little slice of heaven and guess what??? Next plan is to buy two water buffalo so that she can milk them every day and make her own mozzarella!!!!!
