L’accordeon
by Le Fist
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: black and white, paris, photography, travel
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Oh, Alix!
by Le Fist
There’s been quite a few amazing designer retrospectives as of late: YSL, Vionnet, Yohji Yamamoto, the 30 Years of Japanese design at the Barbican in London, the new Alexander McQueen… And now Madame Grés. Or Alix as she was known at the start of her career. Its on at the Musée Bourdelle, near the Tour Montparnasse in Paris till July. I was actually there on Monday with some friends but stupidly forgot that this was Paris and some museums are […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Alix, exhibitions, Madame Gres, Musee Bourdelle, paris, retrospectives
Weird + Wonderful 2: Shrine
by Le Fist
Forgot about this one. I took it in a nightclub/ theatre in the Pigalle. It was at a BBB [Black, Blanc, Beur] party. Can’t remember the actual name of the club. Anyway, BBB keeps changing location every week, Its held now at a club off the Champs-Élysées. Anyhow, had a crazy Vodka-infused night there a few weekends ago. Verdict on new location: Nah. Or maybe I’m just getting too old for this sort of thing.
Categories: Uncategorized, Wacko Jacko • Tags: michael jackson, paris, travel
KERTESZ
by Le Fist
Hmmmph, I thought blogs were meant to be of the moment? Its more like “off minute” round these parts. Yes, the Kertesz show that I was banging on about earlier. Months earlier. That I saw Months Earlier. Twice. That I was going to blog about. Well like a sourdough “Mother” its been bubbling away at the back of the fridge that is my brain. Never too late. Is the show still running? If you saw it, well done. If you […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Andre Kertesz, paris, photography, Robert Mappelthorpe
Sam Haskins, Part 2
by Le Fist
Sam HASkins PhotoGRAPHICS Colucci Edizioni, 1980 Sam Haskins is KING. I fell in love with his work last year when I came across his book African Image, in a bookstore in Paris. I posted some of the images from said book [click here to view] and they have received the most hits on this blog. Its pretty clear that I’m not alone in my appreciation. Tommy Hilfiger collaborated with him last year and the result was Fashion Etcetera, a special edition […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: books, exhibitions, paris, photography, rare books, Sam Haskins
Travellin’ Fist
by Le Fist
Just touched down in Paris. Well, rolled in actually. Managed to use up those free Eurostar tickets I got after the Christmas Channel Tunnel Fiasco. Like a true Brit abroad I’m now ensconced in a Brit-owned bistro with free WiFi, drinking German Bier. In Paris. Ah, well, as they say, when in Rome…
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: le fist noir, paris, travel
Bespoke Sounds Paris: Listen To The Future
by Le Fist
A fashion show is a delicate balance of many parts that come together for one fleeting moment. A memorable show is about the clothes, of course, and much more: the casting, the venue, lighting, production and, perhaps most importantly, The Music. Poor music selection can throw everything off balance. It can be distracting, jar the designer’s message and make the models walk funny. Not a good look. This is where Bespoke Sounds come in. Show music production has been monopolised […]
Categories: love love love, paris, Uncategorized • Tags: music, paris
Diva: Jean-Jacques Beineix (1981)
by Le Fist
Director Jean-Jacques Beineix is probably more famous for Betty Blue but his 1981 debut, “Diva”, has a beauty of its own. Several, in fact. The first being American soprano Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, who plays a determined, beautiful opera singer, Cynthia Hawkins, that refuses to record any of her work. I very much like this idea of a singer who has never heard their own voice played back to them. The incredibly beautiful Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez What draws me to Diva isn’t […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: diva, french cinema, halston, jean-jacques beineix, paris, Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez
Mean Business: Louis Vuitton Autumn-Winter 2010, Paris
by Le Fist
Triple delicious. Marc Jacobs and Paul Helbers have raised the bar so bloody high. This is total, absolute luxury. The shows so far haven’t delivered such a precise, no nonsense line up of perfect, manly clothes. If you’ve gots the cash this is really where you should blow it. Inspired by the Wiener Werkstätte movement, formed in Vienna at the turn of the 20th century, the clothes have been drafted with the precision of an architect. However, there’s a certain […]
Categories: louis vuitton, love love love, men only • Tags: louis vuitton, mens fashion week, paris
More From the Boulevard
by Le Fist
Yeap, they did it again. €9:50 for a coffee and an Earl Grey. I really need to stay away from expensive cafes… Old habits die hard.
Categories: bad habits, paris • Tags: paris, travel
The Big Crush: Fashion Shows Its Current Colours
by Le Fist
On the way to the John Galliano show last night the heavens opened. The torrential downpour was hardly surprising. It had been so close during the day that it took me nearly an hour too cool off after a shower. Arriving at the venue, a disused factory in the south of Paris, there was an eerie atmosphere as people stood huddled in groups under the railway bridge that ran parallel down the street, cutting it into two halves. The current […]
Categories: celebrity, cinema, don't stop till you get enough, fashion week, galliano, Uncategorized • Tags: critique, fashion, fashion week, paris, vogue magazine
View From The Back: Grace Coddington
by Le Fist
Fashion’s Favourite Person seen from the back at the John Galliano show, October 7, 2009. Apparently, Anna Wintour was only in town for the run-throughs with designers before heading back to New York. Could this spell the birth of a new era of shows? A return to salon presentations held exclusively for the great and the good? Fashion is characterised by its tendency towards polarisation. On one hand there is the über private view and on the other we have […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: fashion, fashion week, paris
Le Baron, Paris
by Le Fist
Another late night in Paris. It was early on in the evening, not too busy just yet, the edgy fashionistas, Eurotrashistas and Big-walletistas/No-personalitistas hadn’t swamped the club. You could actually feel the air conditioning – this was back in July and Paris wasn’t quite a deadzone just yet. Just liked the way the lights looked and the starburst-y effect the crappy camera on my iPhone gave.
Categories: nightife, paris • Tags: colour studies, le baron, lighting, nightlife, paris, photography
