Vampire hands🦇

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First portrait of young Rose McDowall

necessary antagonism__

In the early 80s, I briefly stayed with Judith Frankland @judithfrankland in London, a fantastic designer who made outfits for Steve Strange and appeared in David Bowie’s “Ashes To Ashes” video alongside Bowie himself with other “Blitz Kids” and fashion luminaries, Steve Strange, Darla Jane Gilroy and Elise Brazier. She told me tales of the Blitz Club and of her days of designing for Steve Strange and using him as her model. The Blitz Club was in Covent Garden, London from 1979 - 80 and was home to the “Blitz Kids” who were nightclubbers there on Tuesday nights. The club was located between two art colleges (St. Martins and Central School). As a result of its proximity to the art colleges, it attracted many students who were aspiring fashion designers there. The hosts were Steve Strange and Rusty Egan @rustyegan of Visage and the club was responsible for launching the New Romantic movement in London. Many notable fashionistas and dandies who later became big stars, were regulars there. A dress code of the “the weird and wonderful” was strictly enforced at the door, a policy that was put in place by Steve Strange. This was not an elitist system like Studio 54 in NYC, but rather for the protection of the nightclubbing guests against homophobic thugs. The hosts had previously done “Roxy Music and David Bowie nights” on Tuesdays at Billy’s club in Soho and later took over at the Blitz wine bar which gained much better success as an iconic club. David Bowie, gender-bending, cutting edge fashion and a desire to express it with rebellious fervor, were the common themes and passions of the Blitz Kids and the New Romantics. Some other noteworthy attendees aside from the aforementioned included Boy George, Marilyn, Siobhan Fahey, Sade, Spandau Ballet, Midge Ure, Philip Sallon, Stephen Linard, Stephen Jones, Princess Julia, Martin Degville, Scarlet Cannon, i-D magazine co-editor Perry Haines, and many others. Derek Ridgers @derekridgers, Andrew Holligan and Terry Smith were responsible for most of the photos… 📷 1/10: Sheila Rock @sheila_rock_photographer 👨🏻‍🎤⚡️🖤⚜️👩🏻‍🎤 🔲 🔳 🔲 #BlitzClub #BlitzKids #NewRomantic #NewRomantics #SteveStrange #RustyEgan #PostPunk (at Covent Garden) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoEZGFgukl5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

BO_RT…

Inspired by the “new romantic” album cover

Spandau Ballet . . . #spandauballet #newromantic #synthpop #80s #80smusic #1980s #1980smusic #ptos https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp0zI-Rv2zw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

New art & bodypainting . Photo Piotr Dias Modelka Gabi Pawłowicz #newart #rzeźba #żywerzeźby #bodypainting #sculpturemakeup #sculptureart #bodyart #newromantic #artvisual #visualeffects #ilussion #illusionart #artdecomakeup #bodymakeup #charakteryzacja #sztukailuzji #sztukanowoczesna #polishballet #rzeźbanowoczesna #humansculpture (w: Warszawa) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnUNdsxI3q-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#DuranDuran - #PlanetEarth #NewRomantic #WorldStatisticsDay!

The meaning behind 'the MUSIC MAN'

Fun pic I took & edited for ‘the MUSIC MAN’ 🖤 So, let’s take a little deep dive into why I made this new song.

As a woman attracted to men, sometimes I find it hard to accept that I am because of how awful and controlling they can be, especially in my career field. I’m in the music industry and like many others, it’s male dominated, and sometimes there are shady men who want to take advantage of our disadvantage by promising to help our careers in exchange for certain favors. I’m weary of men, but I still have feelings for certain ones, and that contradiction inspired me to write this new song. I turned the theme of imposing men in the music industry into this character called ‘the Music Man’, who in the song, my character, Nephele, is reluctantly in love with despite the control he has over her, and the song communicates frustration yet longing all the same, which I think is cool. Give it a pre-save if that interests you~I’m so excited to share it with you!

Vampire look 🦇

Clothes made by me🖤

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The original David Sylvian

i saw u and i wanted you

Taylor Swift - New Romantics (Lyrics)

Scarlet letter

https://www.patreon.com/damedarcy Update for the whole Patron Family 🌘 So when I sent out the patron prizes for February I sent them as letters using stamps instead of the printing labels we used before because the label maker is literally so expensive now its making me bleed out money. But no worries, your prizes are on the way and will arrive before the 1st of the new month. Plus here’s more painting studies of Hinderance and Perfidia the conjoined twin comic book characters from Meat Cake Bible. I’m collaging these new painting studies together now, and am going to send all patrons $10 and up 8 1/2 x 11 color prints of them while I work on making them into paintings & drawings, and also someone from the Patron Family will get a painting prize this month too. I’ll post my painting process soon here on @damedarcy insta and the time / day for which patron gets the painting plus live stream tarot reading soon for March! ❤️DD #paintingstudies #collage #dreamscape #gothic #conjoinedtwins #fairytale #newromantic #popsurrealism #meatcakebible https://www.instagram.com/p/CpNQy2tuKC-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=