David Bowie, Glitter and Topless Abercrombie Models

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DAVID BOWIE STILL GOT IT

Photograph by Masayoshi Sukita courtesy of the Victoria and Albert museum

David Bowie is one of those people who you’d imagine would look amazing wearing anything – a rubber ring, some gloves and some toothpaste, for example. But apparently as a gawky 17-year-old boy, things were different. Bowie was allegedly the founder of The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Long-Haired Men, (it’s not exactly as cool as S.C.U.M is it?) complaining “It’s not nice when people call you darling and that.” Still, people kept calling him darling, and he stopped minding so much, and now the V&A are exhibiting his stage costumes alongside a retrospective of his career including handwritten lyrics, drawings, photos, his instruments and set designs. It opens today and as with almost all V&A exhibits, it’s looks great.

MARY BENSON

We love Mary Benson and her glitterball jackets, so we caught up with her to discuss the latest collection. Rave totally isn't dead.

VICE: What inspired this collection?
Mary Benson: I was influenced by Pre-Rapaelites and the illuminated decorations of stained glass windows. I wanted to use these in my print designs using holographics, metallics neons and pastel colours and just mess it up make it a bit mad really have fun with it. I really wanted to make a jacket with Yorkshire on the back. I've been wanting one for ages and it worked with this collection because of the scrolls. The whole idea is to have them personalised so people can order one with their name on - or can just rep where they are from!! Who would you like to see wearing your clothes?
Kelis, Gwen Stefani, Mariah!! would be ace to make a christening outfit for Kanye and his new baby. But might not be appropriate actually!! So… What are the metallic bits made of?
Secret recipe!! !! What song best sums up this collection?
100%….. Mariah Carey ft. O.D.B - Fantasy
Listened to this tune about 300 times while making the collection! Still not sick of it!

Thanks Mary!

ABERCROMBIE & FITCH LOVE TOPLESS MODELS (OBVIOUSLY)

Abercrombie are celebrating, or have been for a while now, the array of hunks they travel all over the world to collect. You may know them as the horribly embarassing ever smiling guys that smell like the inside of a West End club toilet, but apparently being selected as a "Greeter" is actually something of a big deal, in the tiny, irrelevant circles that Abercrombie and Fitch move in, anyway. Scooping up dull, smiley, ripped guys from SU bars and fraternity vs. sorority beach volleyball games (or whatever they do), they’ve created a web series delving into the lives of their floor and door models. If you want to laugh and feel a bit sick at the same time, watch the vid. It's a bank holiday, I bet you watch this hungover on Monday, it's like 100 cruel and hilarious treats, blended into one short video.

ALL SAINTS MADE A FILM ABOUT NASHVILLE

AllSaints Film - New Music City from AllSaints on Vimeo.

This week All Saints launched New Music City, a documentary about the Nashville music scene, produced with none other than Kings of Leon, in conjunction with their independent record label Serpents and Snakes. The film (watch it, then I won't have to describe it, dumbs) features exclusive footage from the All Saints stage at SWSX, which will make you wish even more that you'd been there. To celebrate, the Earlham Street branch of the store is playing host to a whole bunch of cinema seats ripped straight out of a theatre in NAshville (Buffalo 66 style) and has been screening the film around the clock since its launch of Tuesday. All of the film releases can be viewed here.

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