Inspirations

 

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Claudia Kishi: Fashion Idol

I have always been into fashion. While my current fashion icons range from Anita Pallenberg to Kate Moss to Oscar Wilde and even (admittedly) the dreaded Olsen Twins, my first and most important fashion icon was Claudia Kishi.

Claudia, as some of you may remember, was a member of the Babysitters Club. She was Asian, a [...]

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Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings

I got the chance to see Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings in concert for the 4th time a couple days ago, and it was probably the best performance I’ve seen of hers. She is such an amazing performer, it’s not even funny. I highly recommend seeing her in concert if she comes to a town [...]

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comin back with power! power!

I’ve had a bit of a girlcrush on M.I.A ever since an ex-boyfriend introduced me to her Piracy Funds Terrorism mixtape with Diplo on a cold winter’s day back in 2004. That mixtape was the only thing I listened to for about two months. I enjoyed her proper debut album Arular, but I was so [...]

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Stevie Nicks

The groupie label gets thrown around a lot, especially with rock-n-roll girlfriends from the 1960s and 1970s. Women like Miss Pamela, Bebe Buell, Cyrinda Foxe, Pattie Boyd, Jane Asher, Marianne Faithfull and Anita Pallenberg are almost always put in the groupie/professional girlfriend category despite having their own identities and careers as models, actresses, musicians, etc.
It’s [...]

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Wonderful Tonight

Pattie Boyd, the beautiful ex-paramour and muse for George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Ron Wood and others has released her autobiography this week, Wonderful Tonight. Pattie has never told her stories about Harrison & Clapton until now. Pattie is one of the most famous rock and roll muses of all time, having the classic songs “Layla”, [...]

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