DAVID LACHAPELLE

(The David LaChapelle Retrospective at Monnaie de Paris is well worth seeing if your in Paris anytime soon)

BOHEMIANS The Glamorous Outcasts

'I wanted to smoke Gauloises, drink black coffee and talk about absurdity and maquillage wicked women and doomed young men. I wasn't interested in happiness, I was looking for the Holy Grail' Marianne Faithfull

THE BOYS IN THE BAND

'All that was fantasy in ink became true: the search for Arcadia and the underworld, love and crime and melody'
'The happiest experience we have ever had is being together as the boys in the band, reaching the listeners' hearts and waking up cupid, too'

Pete Doherty

'Yves Saint Laurent modeled himself on the drug- hazed nineteenth- century romantics'

(Fashion Theory-The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, R. Arnold V3, I3, Sept 1999)

POETIC REBELLION

"ANYONE CAN GET ALL DRESSED UP AND GLAMOROUS, BUT IT IS HOW PEOPLE DRESS IN THEIR OFF DAYS, THAT ARE THE MOST INTRIGUING." ALEXANDER WANG

EMBRACING THE FLAWS

ALEXANDER WANG

ALL THE YOUNG DUDES: POP & FASHION
PAUL MORLEY
STATE OF GRACE FILMS. BBC.
DARRYL BURTON, MIKE CONNOLLY
BB4 9pm Thursday 15/01/09

JOY DIVISION

DARK, INTERESTING, MYSTERIOUS



' THE LOOK OF SOMEBODY SHOULD BE THE END PRODUCT OF A LIFETIME' Jarvis Cocker

THE ART SCHOOL SCENE

'A lot has come out of British art school and a lot of the seminal things that led to other things started in art colleges...' Brian Eno

REBELLIOUSNESS, COOLNESS, RELEVANCE

THIS. IS. YOUR. LIFE.

'Chloe may personify our times, but don't ask her what she's supposed to represent. For her, being part of the "underground" means just living it, because it never occured to her to live any other way'.

(PATTERSON,S. 1997. Cosmic Girl. The Face, pp. 48 - 52)

CHLOE SEVIGNY

'If the cool of our times is the cult of uncool, then no wonder: Sevigny's cool is so uncool it makes Jarvis' cool- uncool look like he tried really hard to be cool. No one who makes this little effort to be this uncool could be anything else than the coolest person in the world'.

(PATTERSON,S .1997. Cosmic Girl. The Face, pp. 48 - 52)

THE UNDERGROUND INDIE SCENE

THE BOHEMIAN LIFE

KEY TO GRUNGE/ HEROIN CHIC:

CORINNE DAY, KATE MOSS, CALVIN KLEIN, MARC JACOBS, HELMUT LANG, TRAINSPOTTING, KIRT COBAIN- NIRVANA, CHLOE SEVIGNY, COURTNEY LOVE, THE FACE

HEROIN CHIC

ROMANCE, EXCITEMENT, DARKNESS


ROMANCE, EXCITEMENT, DARKNESS

GRUNGE

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