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Queerguru’s Sandy MacLennan reviews The Biba Story, 1964-1975 Exploring how fashion phenomenon Biba blossomed to become the world’s first lifestyle label.
The BIBA Story, 1964-1975. The Fashion and Textiles Museum is a unique creative hub, museum and workshop space in London’s edgy Bermondsey. It’s also where the UK fashion doyenne Zandra Rhodes lives and works, overseeing a roster of exhibits that celebrate the craft, creativity and history of fashion and textiles. This year the museum has…
Icon fashion legend Iris Apfel 96 years old and going strong
96-year–old IRIS APFEL is a fashion legend. In an era when even Hollywood stars are slaves to stylists and opinionated editors who want all of us to conform, this New York idiosyncratic doyenne is one of the last truly original, most fabulous dressed women around. Her large crammed Manhattan home is packed full of vintage…
Dame Mary Quant : fashion icon of London’s Swinging Sixties dies aged 93
Dame Mary Quant who died this week aged 93 played a major part in what was known as London’s Swinging Sixties. Quant was one of the fashion designers who took credit for the miniskirt and hotpants in an era that suddenly focused on making clothes for a youthful generation that until then had little…
Queerguru reviews FIONA CLARK : UNAFRAID an affectionate profile of an unlikely queer icon @Wicked Queer
Fiona Clark Unafarid is an affectional profile of a rather eccentric photographer who is something of a queer icon in her native Aotearoa’s (New Zealand) that the rest of the world …….. particularly the LGBTQ+ one … should know about. Back in the 1970’s Clark captured images of the fringes of the…
