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Daily Mail
7 hours ago
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- Daily Mail
Hidden signs in your home that scream you're 'common': Socialite Nicky Haslam reveals artwork that says your tastes are lower-class - and takes a pop at Kate Moss
Socialite and arbiter of all things posh Nicky Haslam has released his annual controversial list of all things 'common' - and it will certainly ruffle some feathers. The furniture designer, 85, began releasing his tea towels, titled 'The Latest Things Nicky Haslam Finds Common', in 2018 usually just in time for Christmas, but he has put one on the market early this year in collaboration with Saatchi Yates, a London-based art gallery. He has titled his £50 tea towel 'Art Things Nicky Haslam Finds Common' and the list contains 36 places and people who are lower class and concepts, words and phrases that he believes are used by 'commoners'. This year, Haslam, who is based in the Cotswolds, has aimed his infamous tea towel at art snobs and says that silent auctions, selling art and 'artsplaining' are low-brow. He also took aim at supermodel Kate Moss, who is on the list of averageness, despite modelling some of the world's most famous art in the form of fashion, strutting down the catwalk clad in Gucci, Versace, Calvin Klein and Vivienne Westwood. She even designed her own sell-out collections with Topshop and Zara. The 51-year-old grew up in Croydon with her parents, barmaid Linda and Peter, then an airline employee, and admitted that it 'wasn't easy' growing up in south east London. And despite being one of the original 'It' girls of the 90s, she has certainly been reminded of her status in the industry professionals. In 2007, US store Barney's then-creative director Simon Doonan called Moss 'a working-class s**g from a crap town, like me.' Also on Haslam's list was the colour white, The Mona Lisa, arguably Leonardo da Vinci's most famous painting which now sits proudly in the Louvre Museum in Paris. Millions of tourists descend on the French capital to catch a glimpse of the slightly smiling brunette woman, an international symbol of art. But for Haslam, the painting is basic and ringarde. Also on the list of 'common things' is Banksy, a pseudonymous England-based street artist and political activist. The anonymous artist has been painting on public streets and signs since the early noughties and is responsible for some of the most famous pieces of art in the world. Balloon Girl is one of his most recognisable displays and it is of a monochrome young girl appearing to let go of red heart shaped balloon carried away by the wind. However, during a live auction in at Sotheby's in London in 2018, the painting - which was selling for millions of pounds - was put through an automatic shredder as soon as the gavel hit the block and was later known as 'Love is in the Bin' and became almost instantly more valuable. Banksy also went on a painting spree in the summer of 2024, creating a whopping nine new murals spanning across London, which could have contributed to Haslam believing that he has become somewhat 'common' and overhyped. While putting together his list of 'common' things for 2025, Haslam spared no one and nothing in the realm of art; targeting hanging photographs, the Sistine Chapel, oversized garden art and even the colour white. The only designer brand on the list was French fashion house Saint Laurent which is currently being managed by Belgian-Italian creative, Anthony Vaccarello. He has held this position since 2016 and the brand is owned by the French holding company Kering, which is also responsible for other renowned brands such as Gucci, Bottega Veneta, Balenciaga and Alexander McQueen. Saint Laurent has been good enough for the likes of Nicole Kidman, Jane Fonda, Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga to wear at red carpet events, but it appears it is too 'low class' for Haslam. Full list of 'art things Nicky Haslam finds common' Selling art Artsplaining Sistine Chapel Christie's Downlit art 'Art is subjective' Silent auctions Children by Renoir Symbolism Hanging photographs 'Can't see what you see in that' David Hockney can't paint for toffee but can draw like a god Francis Bacon is the campest artist since Gustav Moreau Waldemar Januszczak's real name Giverny The Mona Lisa Oil paintings of big game Oversized garden art Studio visits Philistine Genres Frieze White Trauma Interpreted Banksy Validation 'Have you got anything to fit this space?' Meaningful 'I'm afraid it's reserved' Kate Moss Tapestry wall hangings Have you noticed there is no 'school' of Lucien Freud Saint Laurent Buying art at weekends The Biennale Tapestry wall hangings, Christie's art gallery, the word trauma, and the phrase 'art is subjective' also made the notorious tea towel of 2025. Haslam said the exclusive one-off tea towel collaboration was to celebrate Saatchi Yates's 'incredible exhibition' called Once Upon a Time in London. Last November, he released his 2024 tea towel just in time for Christmas and declared that his controversial list should be varied enough to upset everyone in some capacity as he took aim at dairy free alternatives, destination weddings and yellow bags (in which the products will be sold by Selfridges). Although he appeared to take a veiled aim at Prince William through one of the 'common' things on his list, Haslam praised Meghan Markle for giving Prince Harry a 'nice life' as the pair mingle with A-listers in Montecito - away from what Haslam says are Harry's 'ghastly' family. He declared the Duchess too, was 'ghastly' but added she has 'got guts'; referring to the Duke and Duchess's move to California in 2020 when they stepped down as working royals. 'Who'd want to live in a damn cottage in Frogmore and open boring things and have to be part of that ghastly family, all of whom hate each other? Much more fun to be with movie stars and tycoons in California and flying about. Much nicer life, and she's given it to Harry,' he said. Despite his apparently sharp barbs towards the royals, Haslam is friends with Queen Camilla and was once a decorator for King Charles. He was even associated with Wallis Simpson during the Swinging Sixties. While putting together his list of 'common' things for 2024, Haslam spared no one and nothing; taking aim at people who get married abroad, people who have fire pits in their garden, people who drink almond milk and people who hold gender reveal parties. He even put Vogue's editor-in-chief Anna Wintour on the list for her daily routine, which she has shared on a number of occasions and involves her going to the gym and getting her hair done. Among those considered lower class by Haslam are people who rescue dogs; suggesting an adopted pooch is now akin to a 'Birkin bag'. He revealed his method for devising the tea towel each year is by jotting down 'common' things throughout the year that have irritated him.
Daily Mail
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Kate Moss puts on a leggy display in TINY red PVC hot pants as she poses up a storm for new self-portrait campaign
She never puts a foot wrong when it comes to fashion. And Kate Moss put on a leggy display in a pair of sexy red vinyl hot pants as she posed in a new self-portrait campaign on Thursday. The iconic model, 51, showed off her toned figure in the racy shorts which she wore with a sheer black top. self-portrait has dropped the new campaign starring Kate, shot on the streets of London by Johnny Dufort. She accessorised her look with a pair of dark shades and toted a sleek leather handbag from the brand. For the campaign she was seen shopping for some essentials in a corner shop which added a quirky edge to the shoot. It comes after last week Kate and DJ Fat Tony risked an awkward run in as they both attended Sam McKnight's 70th birthday. The supermodel reportedly chose to skip her best pal Fat Tony's star-studded wedding the Saturday before, after learning her former friend Fran Cutler was on the guestlist. The birthday marked the first event the pair had attended since the DJ's big day when he tied the knot with husband Stavros Agapiou. Celebrating Sam's birthday at La Mome, The Berkeley in London, Kate posed with the stylist for snaps as she opted for a black sequin party dress. Meanwhile Fat Tony, 58, was seen commanding the DJ decks as he kept it stylish in a navy jacket and matching trousers. He was joined by Stavros, 32, who opted for a quirky ensemble, pairing denim shorts with a checked shirt, striped tie and grey blazer jacket. The couple tied the knot in front of family and friends in a lavish ceremony at the Welsh Chapel, followed by a fun-filled reception bash at the Londoner Hotel. However, missing from the action was Tony's pal of over three decades, Kate who was thought to be set to be a bridesmaid at the ceremony. According to reports, the supermodel snubbed the nuptials after discovering former Primrose Hill bestie, Fran, 62, was going to attend. Fat Tony - whose real name is Tony Marnach - has been best pals with Kate since 1993, previously lauding her as 'incredible'. Speaking to MailOnline in 2022, the DJ praised the stunner for turning her life around from her notorious party girl youth, saying: 'It's about finding that inner happiness, and she's found it. What Kate's done with that is brilliant. 'Even the fact that she's bringing out a wellness range just show's you where she's at in life and how well she's done.' The hitmaker then sweetly gushed: 'She'll always be one of my best friends, she's an incredible person'. Ahead of his nuptials, it had been reported that Kate would be one of Tony's bridesmaids alongside reality star Gemma Collins, 44, and soap star Claire Sweeney, 54, while Tony previously revealed that he wanted Boy George as his best man.
BBC News
a day ago
- Entertainment
- BBC News
'Such a cool time to be alive': Why Gen Z is so nostalgic about 'indie sleaze'
Today's youth are harking back to the messy hipster aesthetic of the late 2000s and early 2010s – and at the heart of that was French designer and queen of cool, Isabel Marant. A long time ago (2011) in a galaxy far away (Paris), Kate Moss posed in an advertising campaign wearing Isabel Marant's latest creation: a suede lace-up high-top sneaker with a wedge heel and a logo on the side. The shoes were called "The Bekett" – named after a friend of Marant's – and after Moss's stamp of approval, they were everywhere: Beyoncé wore them in her Love on Top music video; Eva Mendes laced them up to run from paparazzi in Hollywood. Fourteen years later, Marant's sneaker wedge is back. The new campaign for the trainers – made in collaboration with Converse – stars Gen Z favourite Lila Moss, the daughter of Kate and creative director Jefferson Hack. In the ads, she walks down a cobblestone city street with loose, long hair and shredded denim, just like her mother did more than a decade ago. "People kept asking over and over for us to bring the shoes back," Marant tells the BBC from her Paris studio. "And why not? When something is well-achieved and good, it remains good forever. Kate, she is also forever." Lila is representing the next generation, and her version of coolness is a new take on indie sleaze, a term for the messy hipster style of the late 2000s and early 2010s, originally identified in an Instagram account of the same name that "document[s] the decadence of mid-late aughts and the indie sleaze party scene that died in 2012", according to its bio. The account features grainy images of clubbers and party goers in hole-filled T-shirts, ripped tights or skinny jeans, with messy hair and make-up, having a lot of fun. Embodied originally by UK TV series Skins, and celebrities like UK model Alexa Chung and US singer Sky Ferreira, it was a grimmer, grimier version of the sunny bohemian look embodied by Sienna Miller and Stella McCartney. Since 2022, indie sleaze has been finding a new generation of fans. The original indie-sleaze movement swapped lace-eyelet tops for faded T-shirts, and traded bootcut jeans, and heels for motorcycle boots and super-skinny jeans from Australian label Ksubi or Swedish brand Cheap Monday that had ankles so narrow, wearers often had to cut them with kitchen scissors before pulling them on for the night. Emerging party photographers like Mark Hunter (also known as "The Cobrasnake") documented the scene on still-novel digital cameras, and independent magazines like Supersuper, Vice and Paper covered the movement, which borrowed heavily from Gen X's arch embrace of irony and cultural gatekeeping. An online debate that frequently surfaced on the social media platform MySpace asked whether the late Amy Winehouse really used ash from a burned cork as eyeliner, or whether she just spread a rumour to mess with wannabe pop stars. A popular joke from the time: "How many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Oh, it's like a really obscure number. You've probably never heard of it." More like this:• How Scandinavian dressing can make us happier• The Coachella looks that can make or break careers• One pair of jeans is all we need – here's why It's worth noting that, at the time, indie sleaze wasn't the moniker used to describe the super-tight leather trousers, studded biker jackets and perspex designer clutches created by designers like Marant, Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel, and Hedi Slimane at Dior Homme and Saint Laurent. As NYU professor and cultural critic Ruby Justice Thelot tells the BBC: "Indie sleaze did not exist." The look was instead called "hipster style" or "Tumblr style," after the popular blogging platform, or simply "club-kid style", since clubs were where the neon babydoll dresses and underground band T-shirts were most often photographed. It wasn't until a TikTok video by the trend forecaster Mandy Lee popularised the term indie sleaze in 2022 that the phrase really took root – especially among teens and young adults who'd been cooped up in covid lockdowns during their early adolescence, leaving them craving the visceral contact high of a jam-packed dance floor. 'Glamorous but cool' "It seems like such a cool time to be alive," says Chloe Plasse, a 21-year-old design student at the New School in Manhattan. Plasse frequently wears Isabel Marant in hopes of capturing some of the designer's "glamorous but cool" essence, even if it's being worn to a university lecture instead of a music festival. In April, Sarah Shapiro, a retail correspondent for the fashion industry newsletter Puck, reported an increase in Isabel Marant's logo merchandise among wealthier Gen Z shoppers in Paris and London; this month, costume designer Jacqueline Demeterio featured the brand on the wealthy suburban satire Your Friends and Neighbors, putting a prominent Isabel Marant logo shirt on its affluent teen heroine Tori Cooper. "Isabel Marant's 2010 collection is my dream wardrobe," says New York City college student Nikki Ball Kumar, 19, who adds she even has saved searches on resale platforms like eBay and Vestiaire Collective to find the designer's greatest hits, which include skinny jeans embroidered with gold beads and pyramid studs, shrunken tweed jackets in bright red and turquoise with unfinished raw hems piped in black leather and, of course, the original Bekett wedge sneaker heels. The adoration of millennial and Gen X shoppers who were young and party-minded in the indie sleaze years, along with the wistful curiosity of those too young to have ever heard Winehouse sing in person at a sticky-floored pub, has created a sales frenzy for Marant. "I think people are very interested in my designs right now because they hit on two kinds of nostalgia," Marant says. "You know, on the one hand, you're nostalgic for a time you lived in. For Millennials, it's 2005, 2010, 2015. So that is one kind of nostalgia. But really, the stronger form of that feeling is being nostalgic for a time you didn't live in." Marant says today's youth see the 2010s as the last gasp of freedom before the era of constant digital surveillance and poreless AI filters. "Today everything is so polished, so fake. That is not rock 'n' roll. It doesn't really appeal to me or my idea of what's sexy – certainly not what is cool. It gives me hope to see that young people are also getting fed up, and saying, 'These fillers and this fake French style, like Emily in Paris, is not very cool'." For younger shoppers who want to walk a mile in the shoes of an indie-sleaze princess instead of a perfectly manicured Netflix one, Marant's wedge heels are a natural fit. Searches for the shoe are up on resale sites like Vestiaire Collective and The RealReal, though they are available infrequently. Marant admits she didn't realise what a hit the Bekett sneakers would be, and didn't produce a lot of them to begin with. "I used to save up forever for one Comme des Garçons jacket or one Margiela top. So I hoped people would do that for my designs, too. We didn't make a ton of these sneakers. That isn't my way. I do love the [Converse] ones though – still cool but a bit light, a bit soft. But of course," she smiles, "you should still wear them with a skinny jean. Or skinny black leather pants, you know? In Paris, all the women who grew up partying with Kate Moss, we have all stopped smoking. But we will never stop that. It is forever the cool French way." --
Sydney Morning Herald
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
As a Millennial who lived through ‘heroin chic', the Age of Ozempic terrifies me
There are a few rules that those in polite society should always follow. One is avoiding double-dipping when faced with a crudite plate and a bowl of hummus at an event. Another is never – ever! – assume that a woman is pregnant. Yet, for some reason, this rule has never seemed to apply when discussing celebrities. Most recently, the target was Taylor Swift, who managed to fuel pregnancy rumours after she was spotted wearing a loose fitting mini-dress. Seeing a woman yet again become the target for pregnancy speculation based on something as flimsy as a billowing bit of fabric or a post-dinner burrito belly, this online rhetoric goes a long way in explaining why three in four Australian high school-aged teenagers feel they need to be thinner. According to the Butterfly Foundation's annual BodyKind Youth Survey released in late May, 90 per cent of Australian teenagers now have some level of concern about their body image. Nearly half said they have never or rarely felt comfortable with their body (up from 40 per cent in 2022), while 75.5 per cent said that they wished they were thinner (up from 62 per cent in 2022). Nearly eight in 10 teenagers said they have been on the receiving end of negative comments about their body or had been teased about their appearance (up from seven in 10 in 2022). As an older Millennial who came of age in the Heroin Chic era – a time that was punctuated by Kate Moss declaring that 'nothing tastes as good as skinny feels', jutting collarbones, pro-anorexia Tumblr accounts and diet tips like 'drink a glass of water every time you feel hungry' – it is haunting seeing this regression. If the same survey had existed when I was in high school, it's entirely possible that the results would have been scarily similar. That's not to say that nothing has changed in 20 years – because for a while there, things were getting better. Loading Though it was far from perfect, the body positivity and body acceptance movement of the past decade actually felt revolutionary in many ways. Seeing pop icon Lizzo declare herself to be 'the baddest bitch alive' in a lycra onesie onstage, felt profound because it was. As did seeing Ashley Graham, a 'plus-sized' model, grace the cover of Vogue in 2017 – the first time in the magazine's 135-year history. We nodded along as Meghan Trainor declared she was All About That Bass and danced along to Nicki Minaj's reinvigorated version of Baby Got Back. Even Moss herself, the queen of heroin chic, acknowledged the need for change, telling commentator Megyn Kelly in 2018 that she regretted her famous quip and that, 'there's so much more diversity now, I think it's right … it's better'. But all of this progress wasn't to last. Over the past year, the fashion set – the canary in the coalmine for all things trendy – has profoundly rejected its experiment with broadening its size appeal on the runway. Across the 2024 Spring/Summer runways, just 0.8 per cent of the models walking were 'plus-sized', compared to 2.8 per cent in 2020.
The Age
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Age
As a Millennial who lived through ‘heroin chic', the Age of Ozempic terrifies me
There are a few rules that those in polite society should always follow. One is avoiding double-dipping when faced with a crudite plate and a bowl of hummus at an event. Another is never – ever! – assume that a woman is pregnant. Yet, for some reason, this rule has never seemed to apply when discussing celebrities. Most recently, the target was Taylor Swift, who managed to fuel pregnancy rumours after she was spotted wearing a loose fitting mini-dress. Seeing a woman yet again become the target for pregnancy speculation based on something as flimsy as a billowing bit of fabric or a post-dinner burrito belly, this online rhetoric goes a long way in explaining why three in four Australian high school-aged teenagers feel they need to be thinner. According to the Butterfly Foundation's annual BodyKind Youth Survey released in late May, 90 per cent of Australian teenagers now have some level of concern about their body image. Nearly half said they have never or rarely felt comfortable with their body (up from 40 per cent in 2022), while 75.5 per cent said that they wished they were thinner (up from 62 per cent in 2022). Nearly eight in 10 teenagers said they have been on the receiving end of negative comments about their body or had been teased about their appearance (up from seven in 10 in 2022). As an older Millennial who came of age in the Heroin Chic era – a time that was punctuated by Kate Moss declaring that 'nothing tastes as good as skinny feels', jutting collarbones, pro-anorexia Tumblr accounts and diet tips like 'drink a glass of water every time you feel hungry' – it is haunting seeing this regression. If the same survey had existed when I was in high school, it's entirely possible that the results would have been scarily similar. That's not to say that nothing has changed in 20 years – because for a while there, things were getting better. Loading Though it was far from perfect, the body positivity and body acceptance movement of the past decade actually felt revolutionary in many ways. Seeing pop icon Lizzo declare herself to be 'the baddest bitch alive' in a lycra onesie onstage, felt profound because it was. As did seeing Ashley Graham, a 'plus-sized' model, grace the cover of Vogue in 2017 – the first time in the magazine's 135-year history. We nodded along as Meghan Trainor declared she was All About That Bass and danced along to Nicki Minaj's reinvigorated version of Baby Got Back. Even Moss herself, the queen of heroin chic, acknowledged the need for change, telling commentator Megyn Kelly in 2018 that she regretted her famous quip and that, 'there's so much more diversity now, I think it's right … it's better'. But all of this progress wasn't to last. Over the past year, the fashion set – the canary in the coalmine for all things trendy – has profoundly rejected its experiment with broadening its size appeal on the runway. Across the 2024 Spring/Summer runways, just 0.8 per cent of the models walking were 'plus-sized', compared to 2.8 per cent in 2020.
