Archive of Attitude is the current exhibition from photographer Janette Beckman at LA gallery Project Space.
On until September 5, the show spans Beckman’s work from the late 70s to the current day and incorporates personal artefacts relating to the areas she has worked in, such as hip-hop and punk.
“The Hip Hop exhibit has my Def Jam jacket (with my name embroidered on the front, circa 1987), The Face 1984 with my Run DMC & Posse photo, a Salt ‘n’ Pepa CD cover I shot around ‘87, a Run DMC single with my photo, Adidas sneakers and sweats and my Kangol hat.”
Here are a few of THE LOOK’s favourites from Beckman’s archive:
//Boy, 153 King's Road, London, 1980.//
//Chris Sullivan + Christos Tolera, Blue Rondo a la Turk, London, 1982.//
//Ska girls, Coventry, 1980.//
//Inside: Stockroom, Johnsons, 406 King's Road, London, 1981.//
//Outside: Johnsons, 406 King's Road, London, 1981.//
“The bands and the fans, I loved the music and the styles,” says Beckman, who recently completed a shoot for Schott in Japan in the style of her punk portraits.
These feature a variety of NYC characters shot on location around the city: DJs, dancers, actors, skateboarders, BMX riders, artists and musicians.
//Chad (actor) NYC 2010.//
//Ralphy (BMX) NYC 2010.//
//US Royalty (band) NYC 2010.//
//Dister (dancer) NYC 2010.//
//Brian (artist) NYC 2010.//
Go see:
Archive of Attitude
Project Space
603 North La Brea Avenue
Los Angeles CA 90036
Telephone +1 323 938 8818
Visit:
http://www.janettebeckman.com/
At last the contribution made by Marion Foale and Sally Tuffin to post-war women’s-wear receives just recognition in the recent publication of Iain R. Webb’s Foale And Tuffin: The Sixties. A Decade In Fashion.
//Outside the Foale & Tuffin boutique in Marlborough Court, Soho, London c. 1965//
Together with the current Fashion & Textiles Museum exhibition, Webb’s book places the too-often overlooked pair dead-centre of that hectic decade, selling through Woolands 21 Shop, pioneering with their own off-Carnaby Street boutique, leading the Youthquake promotion in the US and supplying the general public and the beautiful people (including Pattie and Jenny Boyd, Twiggy, Susannah York and Francoise Hardy) with collection after collection of demure yet sexy fashions.
In today’s Christmas special we not only publish these images and an exclusive interview with Webb but have up for grabs a FREE copy of the book to one lucky person who answers the question at the end of this post correctly. Be quick – the competition closes at midnight on Christmas Day – we’ll be announcing the winner on Boxing Day!
//James Wedge, 1964. Photo: James Wedge//
Brimful with original sketches, press cuttings, personal photographs, labels and ephemera, the narrative of this hugely attractive tome is created from the anecdotal and often insightful testimony of Foale & Tuffin’s milieu, among them Derek Boshier, Mary Quant, Manolo Blahnik, Terence Conran, James Wedge (with whom they worked closely), Peter Blake and Betsey Johnson.
//Sally Tuffin and Marion Foale in”Y-front” dresses, 1964//
Webb, whose CV includes stints as fashion editor of Blitz, the Evening Standard, Harpers & Queen, Elle and The Times, was approached a couple of years back by Matthew Freedman of specialist imprint Antique Collectors Club Editions.
//PVC bags by Sally Jess for Foale & Tuffin, 1965. Photo: Magnus Dennis//
“The timing was perfect; this book ends in the early 60s/early 70s, which is when my previous book – about Bill Gibb - started,” says Webb, who also saw Foale & Tuffin take part in the January 2007 60s study day at the V&A (to which THE LOOK also contributed by interviewing another sorely overlooked figure of the period, Paul Reeves).
//Left,right: Prints by Zandra Rhodes for Foale & Tuffin, 1964, 1965. Photos: Rick Best, Helmut Newton/Vogue//
“The most important aspect of Marion and Sally’s work is that they were always on the money,” says Webb, who is fashion consultant at Bath’s Museum Of Costume (which has it’s own F&T exhibition) and a visiting lecturer at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College Of Art.
//Marion Foale and Sally Tuffin, 1971. Pic: Sunday Times/Fashion Museum, Bath//
“From the beginning of the 60s when they were designing the sweet, girly little dresses through to the shop’s closure in the early 70s, when they’d ventured into fantasy, a bit historical, a bit ethnic, Marion and Sally reflected the times,” says Webb. “A lot of designers create a look and stick with it; Foale & Tuffin kept on the pulse of fashion.”<
The lovely folk at ACC have provided THE LOOK with a copy of the new book for the lucky reader whose name is pulled out of the hat with the correct answer to the following question:
Q: Which year did the YOUTHQUAKE promotion of young British fashion in the US take place?
MAIL YOUR ANSWER TO thelook@rockpopfashion.com BY MIDNIGHT GMT DECEMBER 25.
Best of luck and
HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM THE LOOK!
