biography
MARLEY
Ziggy Marley is hailing academy Award winning Director Kevin MacDonald’s new movie as the definitive film of the life and music of his father Bob Marley. And he’s probably right. The extended family of the legendary Jamaican musician and Rastafarian co-operated fully with the making of the movie which gave McDonald access to both people…
CORMAN'S WORLD ; EXPLOITS OF A HOLLYWOOD REBEL
When I look down the long list of the hundreds of films that Roger Corman has either directed or produced I have no recollection of seeing a single one of them. That obviously is not the case because as a teenager growing up in Britain in the 19..’s (well a few decades ago!) I lived…
Diana Vreeland : The Eye Has To Travel
Diana Vreeland was the Queen Bee of Fashion: a Demi-God of Style who reigned supremely from her different ‘thrones’ of power for five decades and single-handedly changed the way women dressed. You may think that a brash statement but it is totally befitting of this larger-than-life style maverick whose influence at the helm of both Harpers…
ULTRASUEDE : IN SEARCH OF HALSTON
Halston was the US’s first haute couturier to be taken seriously. From milliner to revered iconic fashion designer in a very short this flamboyant and fun-loving man firmly put his sartorial stamp on everything in the Studio 54 era so that his ‘star’ on Fashion’s Walk of Fame in NY rightly proclaims ‘The 70’s Belonged…
