Tag Archives: art

i love the london boys

Posted on March 28, 2018 by marycigarettes
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savile row

Posted on February 11, 2017 by marycigarettes

my favourite time for london is early week in the early morning during softer weather. emboldened by a knickerbocker glory ice cream sundae, i like to dander up savile row around lunch time to catch the actual cutters standing outside … Continue reading →

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dark and tender

Posted on February 5, 2017 by marycigarettes

here’s a dark and tender photograph i took last autumn.. her name is mandana. she fled the 1976 revolution in iran and descended on soho at the age of sixteen where she now runs her own private members club… it … Continue reading →

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new students at the art college

Posted on December 29, 2016 by marycigarettes

charles silverberg walked into his large classroom with high ceiling over huge windows. every three years he looks out on to a lake of new students sitting by, or leaning on quality oak desks in jet black polo neck jumpers… … Continue reading →

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the greatest rock n roll story never told.

Posted on December 16, 2016 by marycigarettes

clarence, who had a thing for cream crumply raw silk suits, set up his music company with only one thing in mind…pleasure…such was his clear vision, that every aspect of his empire revolved only around feeling good. there would be … Continue reading →

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ladyboy with a synthesiser

Posted on December 4, 2016 by marycigarettes

adrian was ripped away from cambridge and badly reframed somewhere in texas, where his father couldn’t resist the money or promotion working at a major oil well. there was only one music shop for a hundred miles.. huge and charmless..nothing … Continue reading →

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the prostate gland

Posted on November 22, 2016 by marycigarettes

geoff became ever more handsome with each passing decade, and now in his early sixties his currency with the ladies had never been higher, but good luck in the good looks department created a dangerous chemistry with the steaming hot … Continue reading →

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the decades of our lives

Posted on April 27, 2016 by marycigarettes

a silly thing i remember about the 1980’s was the overuse of ‘absolutely’.. many media minions hijacked that word for all they were worth, figuring it would give them a veneer of gravitas. every bloody reply was absolutely this or … Continue reading →

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derek boshier

Posted on October 12, 2015 by marycigarettes

the other day we went into london to see a derek boshier exhibition. do you know him?..he’s the one who designed that great sleeve for bowie’s lodger. his peers are people like peter blake who did the sgt peppers album … Continue reading →

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alexander mcqueen… kate moss.. and b.p fallon.

Posted on June 3, 2015 by marycigarettes

there’s a hologram of kate moss at the alexander mcqueen exhibition in the victoria and albert museum…..at first it felt like a ghost of kate, but then i realised it was the ghost of mcqueen…you’re looking at kate, but all … Continue reading →

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