HAPPY BIRTHDAY DELACROIX

The Death of Sardanapalus, 1827.

Sardanapalus could teach Hugh Hefner a thing or two.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME

My friend Tegen of Young Paint made me this fantastic birthday picture featuring my main men Morrissey, Biggie and Kurt.

So great that I thought it was worth sharing - ridiculous expression and all.

DONATELLA'S TIME CAPSULE FOR DAZED AND CONFUSED

DONATELLA: "The ability to make fire has always been a sign of human ingenuity. In Greek mythology, fire is what the intelligent Prometheus stole from Zeus and gave to mortals. This lighter, covered in white Swarovski crystals and bearing the Versace Medusa-head motif in gold - a reference to another Greek myth - is a portable fire-maker and that is why I have chosen it for the time capsule. It's both useful and symbolic of the human spirit."


For Dazed and Confused's twentieth birthday issue they have invited fashion's finest to choose an object to put in a time capsule for the next twenty years. There are a lot of wanky and annoying contributions as well as some thinly disguised press releases [*cough cough milliner Stephen Jones] but I loved Donatella's, pretentious chat about the Greeks and all... a pleasing combination of pyromania, mythology and, staying true to Gianni, gold and diamonds.