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Sunday Times Style Magazine: Update

Jessica Brinton

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A whirlwind week

Fashion week and we're off. First up, the Acne show at Kensington Palace in Princess Margaret's old rooms, and a new friend (“Hello, my name's Pandemonia”), Next, to St Paul's Cathedral for McQueen's memorial. Bjork sings Billie Holiday's Gloomy Sunday (not a dry eye in the house), and Daphne Guinness trips over her shoes (plus gospel choir and Anna Wintour a lament outside). Later at Giles, Kerry Katona is front row and Abbey Clancy is on the cat walk. Tea at Harvey Nichols with the designer Emilio de la Morena and Julia Restoin0Rotfeld (“A simple trench wiz'igh shoes, zat eez sexy”). More parties in shops. Naomi Campbell at Dolce & Gabbana, then Kate Moss at Longchamp: it's sweaty, rather packed. Janice Dickinson (craggy, wild and dangerous) tries to leave with a handbag. Gets apprehended by a male shop assistant (“ You're in big trouble young man”). Much Later, in a Soho dive among the living probably-should-be-dead, the 30th anniversary of Gaz's Rocking Blues. Yawning, we bump into Clash's Mick Jones. “you look tired, love.” Yes! Stay too long anyway. Go home. Happy.

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Loud Flash: The Art of Punk on Paper

Dressed all in black with inflatable yellow hair, Pandemonia attended the Haunch of Venison's Loud Flash private view.

Curated buy artist Toby Mott the show exhibits British Punk posters, fanzines and flyers from the 1970's. The Punk graphics capture and still retain the energy and excitement of the moment.

The show includes graphics by radical feminist Linder Sterling, well known for the Buzzcocks singles cover Orgasm Addict. Her photo montages combine naked women from pornographic magazines being fused with domestic appliances. Televisions replace heads and remote controls, genitalia. Her work talks about identity stereotypes and the treatment of the female Body as commodity.

Guests included Adam Ant, designer Wayne Hemingway and artist Duggie Fields's.



Haunch of Venison

Photos by Dafydd Jones

VOGUE ITALIA

Who is that girl?

Halfway between a doll and a cartoon: who's that journalist in the front row at all the London Fashion shows?

Seated in the front row of all the main shows at London Fashion week, dressed in latex and wearing a doll mask over her face, a showy mane of blond hair and sometimes in the company of a white stuffed dog: everyone's wondering who this journalist really is.

She calls herself Pandemonia and defines herself as a post-modern artist and fashion blogger, with lots of followers on the internet, as well as journalist for the Daily Mail and The Independent. She attends all of the coolest fashion events - openings, runway shows - and recounts her impressions in short posts. Her tribute to fashion?

Re-interpreting designers' suggestions with her eccentric outfits, put together as if she were dressing a modern-day doll: wrapped in an electric blue dress covered with the British flag, or else a long, champagne-colored dress when the occasion calls for a more chic look. She communicates with her fans through Twitter as well -- for the moment she has "only" 150 followers, but we bet that her numbers are about to increase.

Marta Casadei

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