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Grace Under Pressure

Grace Woodward — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:07:04 +0000

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Sista Pratesi – The Living End

Grace Woodward — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:57:10 +0000

i look at these and i would like one on my wall. i also see inspiration for a photoshoot. the grey face paint would be an interesting conversation from any angle.

Grace Woodward — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:17:25 +0000

have been filming in the wierd situation of S/S in A/W as is the faster than nature nature of the fashion industry. Spots and Polka dots are spreading from the catwalks like measles, so to allay my anixety ridden cold sweat nights “Am i on trend????” im just reminding myself. All hail to the “KIng of Vintage” – Vogue, William Banks Blainey who procured this 70′s Lanvin piece.

Are you pickin up on what im laying down?

Grace Woodward — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:02:55 +0000

A whole lotta Naomi

Grace Woodward — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:21:07 +0000

Been seeing this beauty Naomi Shimada out and about. She was skinny and now she aint, she is oh so present and now wearing Richard Sorger too.

Marion Bolognesi

Grace Woodward — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:00:51 +0000

Michelle at Next Paris

Grace Woodward — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:56:00 +0000

My fave girl from LFW

mecompany.com

Grace Woodward — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:16:00 +0000

The Beautiful Mind Vol 1 Intelligence & Fantasy. A collaborative fragrance involving mecompany – image makers see above. Available at Collette.

I’d ‘ave Arad

Grace Woodward — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:22:00 +0000

So apparently Ron Arad is Restless, I would be too if it was that difficult to find a cocktail at a cocktail party. None the less the launch of his new show at The Barbican was a nice buzz of people bouncing on pod-like things and being generally design fabulous. I went with one of fashion’s most fabulous jewellery designers Lara Bohinc, a nice combination as many of the pieces reminded me of jewellery – surprisingly mostly the architectural work he’s done. She filled me in on a few design nuggets from the 60′s which you can really see in her work too.

The downstairs part of the show was mainly functional pieces which are recognisable to most, so after a game of ping-pong on Ron’s famous table, very functional, we turned it into a shopping trip.

Lara went big and decided on the mirror polished stainless steel book case named “Oh the farmer and the cowmen should be friends”, in the shape of the United States of America. At 5.5m wide and rumoured to cost £1million she was a very big spender.

I had my eye on something that might actually fit in my apartment, well maybe the next one, his Thumbprint pieces from 2008. Sadly they really reminded me of McQueen’s A/W 2007 show, though i think things will continue to do that. To me these were the most beautiful pieces in the show, crossing boundaries between functionality and sculpture – an objet d’art you can sit on, though you might need under seat heating in winter.

We bumped into music impresario Trevor Jackson who was telling me how bad he was in bed, at that point i thought it best time to go, not with Trevor though.

The saddest film in the world

Grace Woodward — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:15:00 +0000

As is the freelancers lot, on a rainy November day in a recession the world can feel like a bleak place. Luckily there are certain perks to knowing folks who have jobs, one being tagging along to private film screenings, lo get this though: a screening of a film by a woman i admire, about my favorite Beatle, in Studio 2 at Abbey Road Studios. After eating as many of the canapes i could without looking like a student, life is no longer bleak but full of wonder and opportunity.

Nowhere Boy is out on Boxing day though a warning: I’ve never wanted to cry so early on in a film and then continue nearly throughout, that is when i wasn’t laughing or getting lost in big blue eyes. The film was heavy with sadness, knowing very loosely a similar story about Sam Taylor Wood’s own life it felt raw and pertinent. She was there to introduce the film, looking amazingly young and very happy skipping back to the outheld hand of her leading man Aaron Johnson, who is unspeakably mezmerising on screen, any woman would be in love with him.