Thursday 13 June 2013

News of the World!  Little Missy Picks the Top Three Stories For You
 
 
It's just awful out there right now with Istanbul, my favourite city ever in unrest, and all the usual tedious problems like the government spying on us (o snap)!  Oh and who is this Edward Snowden and why does he have to hide out in Hong Kong?  What did he do that is so bad he has to hide and all those blowhards in DC are going blah blah blah he's a danger to  our country!  Like we didn't know the government was spying on us and Good God do we care?  It's all blah blah blah  24/7 on FaceBook so grow a spine DC and concentrate on important things, which this Snowden probably isn't.  And if he is important and has compromised us, tell us why for heaven's sake!  Syria, North Korea, Pakistan, just throw the dart and there's a really big problem! And right here with all these guns!  Oh please! 
 
 
Will it be Alexandra?
 




So Little Missy seeks to divert and entertain once again with hand picked stories from around the world.  Let's go to the UK, where bookmakers would have us believe that Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge are going to have a girl and call her Alexandra.  Little Missy approves--this is what she named her daughter!  And you can go to a poll and vote for the name Kanye if the Royal couple produces a son!  And Kanye  thinks he is the next Steve Jobs! My kids love Kanye and always quote him.  Kanye is very popular! Who knows, maybe Little Missy will have a grandson named Kanye!  Just as long as I don't have to have a granddaughter named Kim Kardashian!  That would not be good!  But Kanye is in the realm of possibilities for our family.  We already have a Dylan!
 
 
Rupert and Wendi--No Dude, I am going to Hollywood!
 

Now let's go to Australia or wherever that disgusting 82 year old Rupert Murdoch lives.  He is divorcing wife number three, Wendi, aged 44.  He was quoted a few years back as saying that Wendi, the mother of two of his children, was just going to be his interior decorator but Wendi was like "No you stupid old cretin, I'm going to be a movie producer!"  and she produced a couple of respectable pictures and now guess what?  You go girl, you are well out of it!
 
 





Kanye says he is going to spoil his daughter more than Kate and William spoil theirs!
 
Little Missy's idea of a nightmare is Kim Kardashian.  When Kanye got down on his knees at the Met Gala to sing his final number to Kim, Little Missy was not fooled. Kanye, why did you do that?  You are Kanye West, for Goodness Sake!  You bend the knee to No One!  No One, Kanye!  Especially Kim Kardashian, who dresses like Trashian!
 
Well, that's it for Little Missy's Top Three World Stories!  And if any of my readers run into Edward Snowden in Hong Kong, tell him Freddie Aranda and I know a great restaurant hidden in a basement that serves the best chrysanthemum tea.  It's very soothing in this scorch and burn climate that we daily endure.  Carry on, in the moment, float like a butterfly. It's tough but we will get through.
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Thursday 6 June 2013

 

 

 

Three Songs From The Sixties--The Power of Fashion

 

Devil With The Blue Dress





Chanel Spring 2013



Wearin' her pearls and her diamond rings
She's got bracelets on her fingers, now, and everything
She's the devil with the blue dress, blue dress, blue dress,
Devil with the blue dress on
Devil with the blue dress, blue dress, blue dress,
Devil with the blue dress on
Wearin' her perfume, Chanel No. 5
Got to be the finest girl alive
 
This brilliant song is by Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels.  Need anything else be said?  Mitch foresaw the prominence of Chanel and of luxury dressing and put it out there for teenagers in 1966. 
 

 


 


 

Like a Queen In Days of Old



Alexander McQueen Haute Couture Spring 2013


Have you seen her all in gold

Like a queen in days of old

She shoots colours all around

Like a sunset going down
Have you seen the lady fairer

She comes in colours everywhere;
She combs her hair
She's like a rainbow
Coming colours in the air
Oh, everywhere
She comes in colours
 
Leave it to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards to capture the moment of the Sixties in the song Like a Rainbow,  when women shot colours all around...and leave it to Sarah Burton to Show us the modern day Lady Fairer 




 

I Hear The Sound Of A Gentle Word




 

Rodarte Spring 2013



I love the colourful clothes she wears
And the way the sunlight plays upon her hair
I hear the sound of a gentle word
On the wind that lifts her perfume through the air

And Little Missy loves the way Brian Wilson envisioned his Dream Woman in Good Vibrations, one of the best Sixties songs ever by the Beach Boys.  Yes, peace and equality for all were the driving themes, but who among us can deny the power of fashion?

 
 









 

 

 


 



 
 





 
 




 




 









 
 





 


 

 
 








 




 


 



 

 
 
 

 
 

 

 















Learning About Fashion Rodarte Spring Summer 2011, photographed at Stanford University for Electric Fashion, the book I wrote with F...