Granny Takes a Trip was an iconic boutique opened in the 1960's in the Kings Road, London, by Nigel Waymouth and Sheila Cohen. The shop brought a radical, iconoclastic approach to the fashion and style of the time. With an ambience that was a mixture of New Orleans bordello and futuristic fantasy, one would experience a heady feeling of deja vu within its walls, an ambience at once retro and au courant. Marbled patterns papered the walls, providing an exotic backdrop to the rails, which always carried an assortment of brightly coloured clothes. Lace curtains draped the doorway of the only changing room, and a beaded glass curtain hung over the entrance at the top of steps, which led on into the shop. In the back room, an art deco Wurlitzer blasted out a selection of favoured music. The shop also became famous for its constantly changing facade. At one time the entire front was painted with a giant pop-art face of Jean Harlow. Overnight, that was replaced by an actual 1948 Dodge saloon car which appeared to crash out from the window and onto the forecourt. Over the next three years contrasting changes such as this took place at regular intervals. By the end of the decade, the partnership began to lose momentum. Nigel Waymouth was becoming increasingly more involved in his poster and album cover design work, and John Pearse left for Italy to work with his friends in The Living Theatre Group. Sheila Cohen continued to keep Granny operating but found it too demanding a task without her former partners. In late 1969, Cohen passed on the shop to two New Yorkers, Gene Krell and his partner, Marty. Granny Takes A Trip remained open for another four years, until it closed in 1973.
Celia Birtwell, was muse to David Hockney and her partner Ossie Clark. Celia is one of the most influential textile designers of all time. She is described as the face that launched a thousand prints. Celia studied Textile Design in Manchester, where in 1959 she met the fashiondesignerOssie Clark, whom she married in 1969.Theirs was an almost perfect marriage of style, and their work together defined the era. The collaboration began with a 1966 collection for the Quorum boutique in London, which they shared with the designer Alice Pollock. It was the Clarks who began the modern catwalk show: the previous procession of modelled clothes was put to music, the London glitterati was invited, and the shows became events. Birtwell worked at home designing textiles for Clark, who would use his skill in cutting and understanding of form, together with her knowledge of fabrics and textures to produce haute couture for the emerging 60’s culture. This included work for the Rolling Stones and Beatles, Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd, as well as Pattie Boyd, Marianne Faithfull, Bianca Jagger, Verushka, Paloma Picasso, Talitha Getty and numerous other international celebrities.
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HER '60s LOOK: "The face of the decade" she was called by Women's Wear Daily. Photographers loved her, so she must've been doing something right. She had a face like a doll, at once young and innocent but with a scary force behind the eyes, amplified by her sometimes extreme makeup and her reluctance to ever smile in any photo we've ever seen of her. In the book The Sixties: A Decade in Vogue, she explained her exaggerated makeup: "I started it all at thirteen, I think to annoy my friends' parents." Starting with that kind of anti-establishment attitude, she was a perfect reflection of what was going on in the late '60s, and her unconventional looks symbolized and reflected the strangeness and nonconformity of the times. So different was her makeup, Jean Shrimpton said, "Her style is almost science." Weird science, that is: Penelope once shaved off her eyebrows because she wanted "to look more like a Martian than I already did." Tall and gangly, she was another of the bone-thin models who were all the rage in the swingin' '60s. David Bailey described her as being an "Egyptian Jiminy Cricket." Penelope stood 5' 10" and at that height was on par with Jean Shrimpton, plus she was some four inches taller than Twiggy. Penelope was often shown in bizarre settings, sometimes as a mythic figure or a wood nymph. In Radical Rags, Fashions of the Sixties, she explained her unique poses and why the public can't emulate her look: "You can't look like Vogue. It doesn't want you to. It just wants to show you what individuality is." Later Penelope admitted that she was anorexic throughout her modeling career in order to maintain that waif-like body.LIFESTYLE: In '67 Penelope met David Bailey in the Vogue offices and soon moved in with him. Bailey, of course, had already enjoyed a passionate early-'60s romance with Jean Shrimpton and was married at the time to Catherine Deneuve, whom he wouldn't divorce until '70. Supposedly Catherine could see what was coming: One story has it that when she saw a photo of Penelope, she told her husband Bailey that he was going to fall in love with her. He did, and he and Penelope got a house and painted one of the rooms black and another one purple. Supposedly Penelope installed a UFO detector, and the place was often filled with various hippies and radicals. She and Bailey broke up in '74, and she left for Australia. Penelope later married rock musician Ricky Fataar, who briefly joined the Beach Boys and contributed several songs to their Holland LP in '72.
--Tennis player in Playboy sounds promising until you realize it's an American and it's Ashley Harkleroad. --Michael Jackson was at UFC 84? That woulda creeped the hell outta me if I was in the octagon. Thankfully I wasn't allowed inside the cage. Probably because my name isn't Thiago. All in all it was a helluva card. BJ Penn looked great against Sean "no 'roids, no chance" Sherk and now wants GSP. Tito is still smashing whats left of Jenna Jameson, but he had no chance of running down Lyoto. Wanderlei needed a win and an impressive one at that against Keith Jardine. A Silva/Silva matchup after Wanderlei drops 20 lbs.?! And then there was a guy by the name of Rousimar Palhares who put on one helluva performance and I'm sure we'll hear from him again. UFC 87 had some more matches made with Heath Herring going against Brock Lesnar, Frankie Edgar vs. TBD, Manny Gamburyan and Rob Emerson, and 87 is, of course, headlined by GSP and Jon Fitch.
--It's finally official, Vic and the boys (well not Lem, thanks Shane!) will be back for The Final Act on September 2nd. Thirteen episodes will come our way with the final eight episodes involving one long torturous ass kicking executed by Vic on Shane while the hot, young cop who Dutch likes is undercover as a stripper. --MTV Movie Awards on Sunday. Robert Downey Jr. and Ben Stiller coming up with some shorts for this is promising. Not so much looking forward to Adam Sandler and Mike Myers' offerings much less their full-length movies.
--Tarantino will have a WWII offering, Inglorious Bastards, in Cannes next year?! Out-standing news!
--I don't know how Dwight will contain himself, but Rainn Wilson in Transformers 2!
--My boy Raymond Daniel Manzarek is a busy little Door nowadays. Apparently in the next six months or so he'll release a new documentary based on Meerkats or The Doors. One of those. There is supposed to be a ton of previously unseen footage as part of it. He has a couple of movie scripts he's trying to get in production. One is based on the story of L.A. Woman and the other has something to do with a peyote trip. Sounds like they should be combined into one movie spectacular! I haven't checked around but Live in Pittsburgh is a Doors new release that was recorded in May 1970 on The Doors' last tour in the U.S. Johnny Drama's best role ever = John Densmore. Two others who peaked in that movie. Of course, Val Kilmer who simply was Jim Morrison. And lest we forget the cinematic contributions of Billy Idol as Cat. --I already miss Lost. --Return of Heroes is September 22nd.
--The ESPN store in Orlando is already selling Celtics Eastern Conference Champions '08 t-shirts?!
--Didn't think I'd have two Electric Company related posts in one month and yet...
--Remember that time when you were 18 and you drank three or four beers and you had sex and then you and your partner got your pot and then you got in the Highlander and then you smashed into a stop sign and then you hit a utility pole and then the cops came by and then you told the cops all of the previous information and then you added that you deal marijuana. Remember? I don't think Megan Douglas remembers all that either, but hey at least she has the news report to remind her she was the chick.
--Apparently Sony is coming up with a back-up Spidey list in case Tobey Maguire doesn't come back for 4 and 5, which may be filmed at the same time. Patrick Fugit is on it and that's fine by me. He was the kid in Almost Famous.
--God bless Jim Leyland and his at least once a week priceless quotes. We've already heard Jim talking about Sean Casey and also about Bud's edict to speed up the pace of the games. Now we get Jim's answer as to what's going on with Carlos Guillen after a two error night: "He can hardly move -- he's got hemorrhoids so bad. He's been playing with hemorrhoids that probably need to be lanced. He probably shouldn't have been out there (third base on Monday). "He could hardly walk (Monday night)."
--A little movie written/directed by Ricky Gervais titled This Side of the Truth will hit us in 2009. It's about a writer who invents the art of lying. It stars Ricky and Jennifer Garner and oh, just all of these people: Christopher Guest, Jonah Hill, Tina Fey, Rob Lowe, John Hodgman, Jeffrey Tambor and Louis CK.
--Sorry Cuba, but starting next month Charlie Sheen is taking over your Hanes role with MJ. Don't worry I think Snow Dogs is close to getting a green light.
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