And No, one cannot stay indifferent…
My blue period 2006-2009
And Yes, it is a wig ! I wore it for my photographs and at a couple of shows in London, not many people wore colored wigs at the time, it sounds crazy now, it reminded me when my Punk boyfriend had blue hair
It might bring a smile to the lips of the descerning ones to witness these pictures from the video “With My Blonde” made in 2010, pics copyright TDS
My love for vintage clothing did not start in the eighties ( way way back – maybe when I was 5 years old and wore my mothers clothes), but when I moved to London, it just perfectly suited my theatrical style and my bohemian wallet – you see nothing changes – I became a devotee of markets and second hand shops – My first veiled hat dates from the mid eighties : as they say in France “elle a une tête a chapeaux !”. Both my mother and I have a small head, which is always good in terms of hat wearing; so the first photo of me wearing a veil is for this French rock magazine called Best in the mid eighties – it followed with many crazy hair pieces, especially in LA ( unfortunately not so many pictures from these times, too much fun ) – It really became quite an obsession when I started to take these Polaroids of myself; if I did not wear a veil or a hat, I would either draw it on the photo, or stick some tiny bit of actual veil on the self portraits. This started in 2003 – In 2007 I opened a club night at the Grill room at the Cafe Royal ( famous haunt of Oscar Wilde ) and created for the occasion a net with little jewels encrusted that was wrapped all around the face like a fruits and vegetable net, because it was! – This of course has been copied ! But never quite the Pigalle way ! 😉
Faithfully yours…,
The last chanteuse
on my way back from Mexico, I stopped in LA for a few days…there’s a story to go with these pictures…in fact, there are many stories…later…
Anne Pigalle 