You should remember your Yank friends, Mr. B.B.! Hey, I'll be in Ireland
for a week next month. Shuttle yourself over to Dublin on the 22nd and
I'll buy you a pint or three -- and don't forget the Prada clothes for me :^)
Brian
At 02:12 AM 1/25/00 -0800, you wrote:
>If anyone sees anything by Prada that's nice (we can't seem to find anything
>other than over-designed weird stuff in the shops here) please can they let
>me know the SP. And be quick about it.
>
>I have about 4 weeks left to run on my Prada/French Connection blag before
>my contact changes jobs and I haven't took the piss out of them enough yet.
>Read it and weep Mods, next seasons French Connection jumpers for �3.25!
>
>Coming soon - Hugo Boss on the cheap. Waheey!
>
>Andy the blag BB
>See me on a stall at the IOW flogging cloth.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lisa Marriot [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 25 January 2000 02:54
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Hollywood Fashion Machine
>
> Attention Modslisters. In a flagrant display of self promotion, I
>exhort you to turn on your television sets. My top television show,
>Hollywood Fashion Machine, airs on the AMC network Monday nights at 2pm/8pm
>Eastern, 5pm/11pm Pacific. Turn on tonight for a fascinating documentary on
>costume design in science fiction, from Metropolis to The Matrix.
>Interesting interludes for
> modslisters include a look at Hardy Amies' pre-Prada designs for
>2001 and Paco Rabanne's Barbarella.
>
> Of more direct interest is next Monday (the 31st) which is the show
>on film costumes of the 1960's. Interviews included: Mary Quant, Twiggy
>(cow), Michael York, Raquel Welch, Theadora Van Runkle (designed Bullitt,
>Bonnie
> and Clyde, Thomas Crown) and so on.
>
> It is, needless to add, a rip-roaring white knuckled thrill ride of
>an exploration into the vagaries of 1960's film fashions which will
>tittilate, inform, fluster and bewilder you as it streaks past the retina.
>Also it features some VERY COOL FOOTAGE that you might not want to miss. I
>can't be arsed to tape it for you either so you had better watch it.
>
> I apologise profusely in advance for any Austin Powers references
>and the ill-informed use of the word "mod". Needless to say my protestations
>went unheard on both points.
>
> Let us say in conclusion that I tried my damnedest to squeeze as
>much cool stuff into there as possible and I hope you can enjoy it. I also
>hope that it is marginally less retarded than most "tv does the 60's" shows.
>Any of
> the parts you like were my responsibility, whereas those parts you
>hate had nothing to do with me. Any questions on stuff in the show, forward
>to [EMAIL PROTECTED], because as you well know, I'm not on this list
>anymore.
>
> Thank you and goodnight.
> Richard Hutt
>
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