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Category Archives: No People Like Show People
No People Like Show People: Professor Jingles
Professor Jingles with his hand-crafted puppets Over the summer my brother and I made a short film about the man who was once Britain’s youngest Punch and Judy performer: Professor Jingles. He was a fixture of our childhood growing up by the … Continue reading
No People Like Show People: London Fashion Week
Well it’s that time of year again, and to kick off the Fashion Week proceedings I wrote a piece on the links between London fashion and performance for Fashion156. You can read it HERE. I also contributed to a BBC … Continue reading
No People Like Show People: Joseph Grimaldi
Vogue Italia, April 2007, starring Karen Elson and shot by Steven Meisel Grimaldi is dead and hath left no peer. We fear with him the spirit of pantomime has disappeared. - Illustrated … Continue reading
No People Like Show People: Jayne Pierson
Jayne Pierson and Derek Lawlor S/S 2012, ‘Mobius Strip’ from Planet Notion There’s a way to express a concept really clearly through visuals, through film, through performing arts, through theatre… in a way that wholly encapsulates the concept as opposed to … Continue reading
No People Like Show People: Vesta Tilley and the Tuxedo
London chic is masculine: women’s fashion is considered an optional extra, a lesser art that should not be allowed to take centre stage – French Vogue, 1938 Stylist magazine ‘Androgyny’ shoot, September 2011 In my opinion, there is nothing hotter … Continue reading
No People Like Show People: Walter Potter
‘The Original Death and Burial of Cock Robin’, Walter Potter, 1861. At Morbid Anatomy. To say that a taxidermist stuffs animals is misleading. In fact the skin is removed, preserved and arranged around a model of the original body. A … Continue reading
No People Like Show People: Isadora Duncan
Duncan at the Lido in Venice, 1903 from Isadora: A Sensational Life by Peter Kurth I have discovered the dance. I have discovered the art which has been lost for two thousand years – Isadora Duncan Isadora Duncan is tragically … Continue reading
