In honour of the new series of Ashes to Ashes starting tonight (I’m currently pausing for a moment to resist the urge to bounce around….oh what the hell, bounce bounce bounce!) here are some random early Eighties images….if you like that kind of thing!
Mmmmm…..gratuitous soggy Durans shot…..
I have decided that Yasmin Le Bon is Beatle-wife-gold-standard. Of course it helps that she’s impossibly beautiful and wealthy, but she seems really sweet in the interviews I’ve seen. Strong but feminine, and goofy enough that you don’t hate her for being impossibly beautiful and the wife of a Duran. She still looks incredible, and I love the colour of her dress here at the British Fashion Awards.
(She’s also wearing FAUX fur, FAUX fur – yes I’m glaring at a photo of Mrs John Taylor, Gela Nash, in a huge REAL fur jacket at the launch of the latest Juicy Tat Couture launch. Naughty Duran wife, naughty!!)
I’m sure it’s a modern take on a Thirties-style evening gown, but this is proper glamour. Some of the other people on the red carpet that night would do well to take heed. Black tights and smock mini dresses are adorable, but they’re not red carpet. They’ll also be dated within a year. In fact, I thought they already were? Anyway, this is how you work it…..
Found just now on my stats:
duran duran video where they have all the make up on
Errrr……this IS Duran Duran we’re talking about!
I think that covers any video Nick Rhodes might be in and pretty much any video of all of them from the first album.
The most make-up-tastic ones for all the boys are probably Careless Memories and Planet Earth though, in case you’re still looking.
Made me smile anyways…
I may have to break my Topshop embargo for this Duran Duran t-shirt, it’s exactly the one I described to a friend the other week when I said I wanted a Duran t-shirt and probably wouldn’t be able to find what was in my head. I’m fairly certain they must have a tap on my flat after the whole Kate Moss thing, and this was their ruse to get me back….
Damn you Topshop!!! Damn you to hell for making me want your stuff again.
Then, sucked into the site, I also found this. How freaking adorable is this cardigan???
I need to have a lie down and try to resist the temptation…..
Join me (and Duran Duran) in celebrating (with a banana) the fact that Miss Peelpants has finally rid herself of the most vile HP computer on Planet Earth and is now enjoying excessive speediness on her lush new (well, nearly new) Philips one.
So hopefully I can start to be as productive as I want to be, now that it doesn’t take two hours for programs to load and my computer doesn’t randomly switch itself off!!
Nothing can stand in my way now!! Well…..nothing except Duran Duran and chocolate biscuit-type distractions but anyway…..
One time Hot Gossip dancer, member of Steve Strange’s Visage, long term girlfriend of Billy Idol and the gyrating topless blonde in The Chauffeur video, Perri Lister is an absolute icon of all that was fabulous about the early Eighties.
With those huge, feline eyes always made-up beautifully to the hilt and her angular but still feminine figure…oh, and that insanely frothy, madly coloured hair, she is the very essence of the New Romantic ethos.
No mere arm candy was she though. As well as being a talented dancer, she co-wrote many of Billy’s biggest hits and provided vocals for him, for Visage and for her own short-lived group, Boomerang.
She’s also still completely beautiful and seemingly hasn’t aged a bit since her Eighties heyday. Perri, we salute you…and request personal make-up lessons immediately!
The Chauffeur. Lack of Durans are slightly made-up-for by fabulously evocative and stylish video (and Perri of course!)
On Italian TV with Visage performing Fade To Grey
Liz Eggleston 
