Saturday, July 18, 2009

Festival fashion

By Mark SavageEntertainment reporter, BBC News, Latitude Festival

Michelle

When Anna Wintour - the notorious, violent application of Vogue - attends a style show, you crapper bet she doesn't sit on a deck chair.

But then, Wintour has probably never been to a style exhibit at a penalization festival, in the middle of the bulrushes, at the centre of a lake, on the easterly coast of England.

For forty-five minutes on Friday, the concern of wellies collided with broad fashion, broad tent and broad drama at the Latitude Festival, as London's House Of BlueEyes unreal what it claimed was the prototypal ever penalization festivity style show.

Inspired by the Rolling Stones' Sympathy For The Devil, the theme of the assemblage was Rock and Roll Vampires.

The predominant colouration plot was black and red, emblazoned across knitted burning suits, deficient leather jackets and modify skimpier skintight jeans.

As the exhibit began, New royalty action creator Angel Betsy scampered onto the initiate in a trend black shawl and red tights, and dusted the catwalk with shine - exclusive for it to move away, as the runway was subsurface under water.

Technical hitch

Undeterred, she feature the show's manifesto in poem form.

"Please don't take the devil. The devil's trick is mighty disentangle 'Shove them every aside,' he says, 'Do what you can, to vex the next man.'"

The message was that this extravaganza was every most equality.

Models

The models ranged from the usual, prowling stick-monsters of city and Paris, to fuller, rounder figures and (Anna Wintour would be appalled) short people.

"I conceive style is for everybody," says designer Johnny BlueEyes, "regardless of your age, colour, sexuality, ethnic status."

He added: "Some of my friends are models and some of my friends are painters and decorators, and I conceive the exhibit should emit that."

What he fails to mention is that some of his friends are also sway stars (he styles for the likes of Beth Ditto) and inspire queens.

In fact, his background as a cabaret act came to the forward at the exhibit after a technical hitch threw the opening number off-kilter.

As the engineer struggled with a skipping CD, Johnny - not the smallest of men - flailed around in a black leather basque and five-inch grayness heels, rubbing himself with a organization diddley and cracking whips onto the stage.

Some of the children in the audience looked a lowercase confused.

Golden Ticket

Once the exhibit got back on track, however, the true stars were revealed.

When the catwalk circumstance was prototypal advertised, Johnny BlueEyes gave five members of the open the chance to be models for the day.

"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was digit of my favourite films when I was really young," he explains.

"I conceive style is for everybody regardless of your age, colour, sexuality, socia"

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"I utilised to feel awkward - not bonny or primary - but I eventually got to a locate where I fell in fuck with myself, in the nicest doable way.

"With the Golden Ticket I desired to share that."

Among today's winners was Michelle, whose swain Pete volunteered her for the show.

His telecommunicate submission read: "Michelle is fundamentally and purely the most bonny person in the world, in every single way, far beyond the esthetical and deep within.

"I am blessed to undergo this example on a regular foundation in the artefact she looks, speaks and acts, but more profoundly in the artefact she deals with grouping and those around her."

When the telecommunicate arrived, Johnny says, "it brought tears to my eyes".

After meet a period of rehearsals, Michelle looked every progress the catwalk pro, in a adventurous leather and lace outfit, set soured with a two-tier neckband and mini fungus skirt.

Also joining the cabaret were 47-year-old prizewinning friends Sue and Joy, who were dressed as dark diamante dancehall divas.

Joy dispatched in the Golden Ticket telecommunicate - meet digit sentences, explaining that her and Sue had been "mates for 32 years".

"It was a surprise," admits Sue later, as she shows soured her wear ("it's a dead kestrel, apparently").

"I wouldn't normally do anything same this. No way. My mate's an exhibitionist but I'm quiet."

In the end, however, she came out of her bomb and "enjoyed every minute of it," as she sashayed across the lake, but maybe not as much as her game companion.

"Would I same to do this full time" asks Joy.

"Definitely. But exclusive if they paying me for it."
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