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How Leigh Bowery and the Blitz Kids defined 1980s subculture with make-up

As Leigh Bowery and the Blitz Kids of 1980s London are celebrated in a new exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum, Isobel Van Dyke explores the hair and make-up looks that defined them

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Dressing for the dancefloor: creative explosion behind 80s’ most colourful club

Fashion and Textile Museum exhibition charts how shortlived Taboo and its founder, Leigh Bowery, inspired decade’s fashion

The Guardian - UK

The wild influence of Leigh Bowery and London subculture club Taboo

As Outlaws opens at the Fashion and Textile Museum, throwing light on the outrageous underbelly of the 1980s avant-garde nightclub and its impresario Leigh Bowery, Dylan Jones recalls the place to be seen

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40 outrageous photos that changed fashion, from teenage Kate Moss to Twiggy in a mini and Lady Gaga’s meat dress

Leigh Bowery provoked, Dior’s elegant New Look inspired, Katharine Hamnett’s slogan T-shirts challenged: these are the shots that made the world see clothes differently

The Guardian - UK

‘I’ve pretty much worked at every bar on Canal Street’: How Danny Beard cut their teeth as a drag queen in Manchester’s Gay Village

'I love the vibe of Manchester. People here don’t mind getting the p*** taken out of them. We just get on with life, don’t we?'

Manchester Evening News

Bow Down To These Absolute Icons Who Have Paved The Way For The Aus LGBTQIA+ Community

The post Bow Down To These Absolute Icons Who Have Paved The Way For The Aus LGBTQIA+ Community appeared first on PEDESTRIAN.TV .

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Glasgow exhibition displays future of photography in Scotland

EVERY year since 2008, the Street Level Photoworks gallery in Glasgow has hosted Futureproof, a winter festival of work from the BA Photography and…

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I'm A Celeb's Boy George won't bow down to co-stars as he has 'contempt for authority'

Matt Hancock and Charlene White were recently announced as camp leaders on I'm a Celebrity, but fellow campmate Boy George teased that neither of them will have any power of him

Daily Mirror

My London: Baz Luhrmann

The Elvis and Moulin Rouge! director gets cozy at Chiltern Firehouse, loves the energy of Shoreditch and grows old disgracefully on the dancefloor...

Evening Standard

My London: Michèle Lamy

The gold-toothed fashion maverick and musician loves the world of Leigh Bowery, throws punches at BXR and finds dining options are even better here than in… Paris

Evening Standard

Lucian Freud review – the Queen, Leigh Bowery and the artist’s ex-wives stand brutally revealed

From the monarch to the naked performance artist who was living with Aids, Freud paints life lived in the face of death, with an unsentimental eye for human tendernesss

The Guardian - UK

Lucian Freud: New Perspectives at the National Gallery - unfortunately revealing

Freud was obsessed with the Old Masters; this show putting him in the thick of them doesn’t do him any favours

Evening Standard

‘I just want to be left alone’: artist Daniel Lismore on life as a living sculpture

The Coventry native is returning home for an exhibition of sculptures referencing everyone from Mariah Carey to Mickey Mouse. Just don’t call him the new Leigh Bowery

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