Specialist in vintage & antique clothing, costume & accessories:I've had a long-term passion for vintage and antique clothing, costume and accessories for as long as I can remember and have collected and studied them (and enjoyed dressing up in them!) for over 18 years. I constantly draw inspiration from my collection and this passion naturally led to establishing the costume/clothing side of the company. I specialize in period inspired designs and silhouettes, vintage and antique stage style costume from the turn of the century onwards, historical detail and intricate embellishments.
On a personal level: suave men. Decadence, dressing up, swapping lipstck, romance, singing, music, ice-cream, Victorian-50's underworlds, Demi-monde, Victorian ironwork, castles, get jitters when I go in good vintage stores, alt-theatrical, stripper and stage costume, history of costume, female form, frenzied behavior scenarios, my best friend Lizzy, antiques, old architecture, moggies, dolls, old movies.
I'd like to meet:
The real ones, good souls, playmates, inspirationals, people who don't think it's big and clever to waste their talent, just folksters who are into their thing. Lillian Gish. Cecil Beaton. Lots and lots of people, alive and dead. Mischievous types. Gents. Cecil B.DeMille. Al Pacino, David Bowie, Marianne Faithful, Kate Bush, Mechanical Birds, Sarah Bernhardt, Lord Byron, Christopher Marlowe, Rudolph Valentino, Leonard Cohen.
Music:
Rock'n'Roll, punk, indie, gypsy/circus, blues, Bluegrass, Skiffle, Sister Morphine, The Urban Voodoo Machine, Love, The Misunderstood, Samuel Barber, The Dreasdon Dolls, White Stripes, Debussy, Tom Waits, some exotica, some Northern Soul, Jackie Wilsons voice, Bowie, Eric Dolphy-Feathers, Violin, violin, Sid Barret, creeky noises, harp, Tarif de Haidouks, The Flaming Stars, Lady and the Tramps, Nick Cave, Gallon Drunk, Old Horror Movie Soundtracks, Mazzie Star, Billie Holiday, Polly Harvey, The Parkinsons, Penthouse, Tom Waits, Boss Hog, Big Band Music, The Coasters, Louie Prima, Jack Scott-Goodbye Baby especially, Charlie Feathers, Slim Harpo, Leadbelly, Credence Clearwater, Sparklehorse, B52's especially Rock Lobster, Cramps, Iggy, Dinah Washington and Geno too, I Only Have Eyes For You, Kate Bush, Mudhoney, Nolan Porter, The Violent Femmes, Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen, The Saints, Suzie, Velvets, Gram Parsons and Flying Burrito Bro's, Lou Pride, The Headcoats, Dead Kennedys, Berlin Cabaret, The Pop Group, Ray Charles, Jhonny Cash, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Roxy Music, Tindersticks, Nirvana, My Bloody Valentine, Nation of Ulysses, Black Sabbath, The Dictators, Stones, Slits, Suicide, Penetration, Girls Against Boys, Shot from Both Sides, Codein, Trashwomen, Desperate Rock'N'Roll, Hypnotics, New York Dolls, Richard Hell and Voidoids, Divine, Big Star, Television, Billy Childish and lots of Medway scene stuff, The Only Ones, Serge, Francoise Hardy and Jack Dutronc, Fleetwood Mac, PIL, Modern Lovers, Country Teasers, Love in the Unfamiliar, Royal Trux, Jacques Brel, Astral Weeks, Scott Walker, Anita Lane, Grinderman, Edith Piaf, Coil, Tainted love by Gloria Jones, Goggle Bordello, Mediaeval Baebes, Naked Goat, Brian Eno, Krzysztof Komeda, Diamanda Galas, The Oblivions, Crime in the City Solution, Kronos Quartet, Blanche, 16 Horesepower, No Bra, Einsturzende Neubauten, Micheal Gira, Sons and Daughters, Tiny Tim
Movies:
A Company of Wolves, Silents, Tim Burton, Wild at Heart, Susperia, Up the Junction, Great Expectations, Hexen, Freaks, Billy Liar, Poor Cow, Performance, Wings of Desire and the serene circus girl, Red Shoes, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Busby Berkley, Wuthering Heights, The Haunting, Magnolia, Stranger Than Paradise, American Beauty, Last Tango In Paris, Naked Tango, Le Mepris, Belle de Jour, Requiem for Dream, Its a Wonderful Life, Dog Day Afternoon, The Shining, Performance, Rumblefish, Wizard of Oz, B-movies, Curse of the Werewolf-Ollie Reed looks hot in this! Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, The Third Man, Wicker Man, American Werewolf in London, Kurt Cobain - The Last Days, Room at the Top, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Whistle Down the Wind, Mystery Train, Angelheart, Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, Junebug, Girl on a Bridge, Spun
Television:
The Waltons, Huckleberry Fin, 6ft Under
Books:
Mainly auto/biographies fave-Marianne Faithfull and Jane Mansfield, Tropics of Cancer, Karinska, Edgar Allan Poe, Diane De Prima, Bukowski, Christopher Marlowe (he's filthy and I love it), Theatrical books, photographic: early Cecil Beaton, James Abbe, Joel Peter Whitkin, Venetian art and crafts book on my shelf, costume books, Nick Zed, Rollerderby, don't sit still 4 long enough to read much got a lotta really great books I'm saving for a quiet time
