Clothes....and lots of them! Janice Wainwright, Biba, Ossie Clark, John Bates, Bus Stop/Lee Bender, Annacat, Bill Gibb, Thea Porter, Miss Mouse, Radley, Foale and Tuffin, Gerald McCann, Pam Hogg, Sarah Whitworth. Applique, embroidery, frills, art deco prints, flowers, novelty prints, random cut out bits, big collars and cuffs, plunging necks, plunging backs, plunging sides, hipster knickers, vintage undies of all kinds, velvet, crepe, chiffon, chenille, enormous sleeves which end up trailing in my food, splits in skirts, flares, skirts of all lengths. Boots, platforms, buckles and buttons, ties and lacing. Tea, cookies, dark chocolate, anything cinnamon-y, red wine, champagne, baileys and jack daniels. Sleeping, snoozing and dreaming. Comedy (stand-up...sit down....any kind), naff sixties and seventies films and sitcoms, fields, old buildings, old films, theatre, ballet, odd documentaries, art, Gustav Adolf Mossa, Klimt, Mucha, Toulouse Lautrec, Tamara de Lempicka, Caravaggio, Botticelli, Ingres, Erte, Aubrey Beardsley, George Barbier, museums, Italy, France, waterfalls, old glamour and porn stuff - back when things were real, fashion photography, fashion illustration, being pale and interesting, hugs and people playing with my hair.
Freaks, geeks, Mods, Glam Rockers and New Romantics. Boys with long hair and anyone who wears vintage. Mainly just interesting, unusual and non-judgmental people.
Honestly? Anything and everything which takes my fancy.Favourites include...Duran Duran, Roxy Music, The Kinks, The Beatles, Human League, T-Rex, David Bowie, The Sweet, Françoise Hardy, Adam and the Ants, The Smiths, Garbage, Curve, Blondie, The Rolling Stones, Goldfrapp, Prince, The Who, Marilyn Monroe, Fox, The Small Faces, Nik Kershaw, Mott The Hoople, Suede, Ultravox
It Happened One Night, Quadrophenia, Help!, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 24 Hour Party People, The Jokers (release this on DVD goddammit!!), The Assassination Bureau, There's a Girl in My Soup, Slipper and the Rose, Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, Some Like It Hot, Hard Day's Night, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Barbarella, Blow Up, Stardust (the 1974 one...), Roman Holiday, Celine et Julie vont en bateau, Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Avengers, Doctor Who, Blakes 7, Sapphire and Steel, Life on Mars, The Liver Birds, Man About The House, Sex and the City, The League of Gentlemen, Look Around You, Red Dwarf, anything Lee and Herring, Flight of the Conchords, The Mighty Boosh, Green Wing, Spaced, The House of Eliott ("but Jack, what about the collection?!"), I also believe that Neighbours is a highly underrated slice of comic genius. Oh yes...
Mainly style/design icons I'm afraid.....Diana Rigg, Claudette Colbert, Alice Pollock, Pamela Des Barres, Pattie Boyd, Marianne Faithfull, Vivien Leigh, Shirley Manson, Various 60s and 70s Doctor Who companions, Lee Bender, Ossie Clark, John Bates, Barbara Hulanicki, Penelope Tree, Brigitte Bardot, Jane Birkin, Cathy McGowan, Janice Wainwright, Marilyn Monroe, Louise Brooks, Celia Birtwell, Françoise Hardy, Debbie Harry, Kate Bush, Rae Spencer Cullen...etc etc....