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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…
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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…
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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…
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DAVID BOWIE IS finally gets to Brooklyn
The smash hit DAVID BOWIE IS Exhibit, the first international retrospective of the extraordinary career of David Bowie, which started its journey in 2013 at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum and has been touring ever since, makes its final stop at the Brooklyn Museum on 2 March 2018. It features 300 objects including handwritten lyrics, original…
