WALKING A HOUNDDOG IN GUNNERSBURY PARK
Vogue was running a feature on ‘real’ women which apparently includes me. I am relieved that being real doesn’t require an interest in fashion. The Fitting: This is a job in itself. It takes place in a room the size of a barn with rack after rack of dresses, skirts,…
Day for Night
‘Can I take you anywhere?’ my driver asked; a young man, with perfect English and an Irish name, Sean. I could read the back of his head: Handbags, shoes, furs. ‘Kurffurstendamm. Like your Bond street?’ He said, looking over his shoulder at me. He was about eighteen; a son, not…
PEARLS FOR GIRLS BOYS
My ‘nephew’ in this video was a delightful, sunny, young man who had flown in a few days earlier from Oregon where there were no jobs for models – Here, he was booked up immediately. I am dressed in black sequins from head to toe. The reason we are sitting…
SOUTH QUAY – MODELLING IN A DESERT
I found an email in my Junk Box. It was from a Grace Ng and about a possible job.
I wrote back, hoping she hadn’t given up or found another mature model. I wanted the assignment: a shoot fulfilling her wish to redress her beloved grandmother’s lack of a childhood. This was intriguing – I am a grandmother and my childhood has informed my life.
Tank Fashion Video
Joanna Pietrowska is a sensitive and artistic photographer, especially of people and in situations or places where they are either at quite at home, or slightly uneasy. There are examples of both here – Balenciaga heels are not easy to wear… Before I had only seen Joanna’s work in black…
Acting in a Cold Climate
Here is an account of the spaces around a recent shoot; the non-filming side of it. The background was a dystopian world and, this cold, wet, February day, the surrounding blocks seemed soulless and randomly spaced, as if no one thought or cared about how people live. The views when…
Muto: Say Nothing
I had the pleasure of being cast in a music video for Muto’s ‘Say Nothing’. Muto is a Sydney producer whose debut EP is due for release in October. You can find his singles on Soundcloud and Spotify.
GET THEE TO A PUBLICIST
GET THE TO A PUBLICIST I am the child of a past era. When publisher lay in wait for unsuspecting authors at the top of dusty flights of stairs. They lived in attics with sloping ceilings and fed their authors sherry and dry biscuits. They took them to lunch at…
JAZZ ON A WINTER MORNING
7.45 am on Sunday morning – grey, raindrops hovering, the steps down into the underground wet and grubby. Broadcasting House at 8.00am. In the ground floor reception there are three bilious-coloured chairs. They are shaped like eggs, scooped out and lying on their sides. You sit down, you lean…
BRALESS IN DIOR
BRA-LESS IN DIOR We were shooting accessories, so I didn’t bother about my underwear. The studio was big, empty and windowless. A corner was curtained off by a few meters of thin brown stuff, half concealing a shelf, a chair, a mirror, a hair-stylist, a manicurist and a makeup artist….