This girl really was there. At today's press event at the V&a ('David Bowie is').
With the dark and the noise and the crowds, hushed, everyone with big cameras, being all polite because we're all in the same boat, everyone saying 'sorry' when they're in someone's shot, but I loved getting people in the shots. The curators apologised that David Bowie wasn't there but he was. He is. Everywhere.
Sometimes, things in life exceed your expectation.
I'm just back from a day at the V&a for the press preview of 'David Bowie is', the show opening on the 23rd. I came of age during Bowie's reign, I've been to live shows, his music, films, have made up the soundtrack to the film that is my life - so I'm not ready to put in words how surprised I was at how emotional this was for me.
Victoria Broackes, co-curator of this extraordinary exhibit, was one of the people who spoke briefly (you didn't need to say much: the show, his work, did the talking). As the Telegraph put it, they're hopeful that David Bowie will attend the exhibition.
But he was already there.
I love how he's a musician that isn't precious about his work: he lets his videos stay on YouTube, for free. I was mesmerised, reading his original words for Heroes, and I've found a more recent live version for this post. Those lines.. 'I wish I could swim, like dolphins can swim'.. and that Buddhist concept of 'this is that'.
I am God.
And don't even get me started on the headphones; they're MAGIC. They react to whatever you're near, sound, music, his voice, others, going on and off as you move.. I wish I could see all the art, words, images, that will come of the 600 top press people that attended the event today. Because, in the end, that's all David Bowie is: an artist, who inspires us to create something new.
Shot within minutes of one another. Backstage, at fashion week.
I had named the top shot 'red lilps' and, what can I say. It made me smile.
Tomorrow's the sneak preview press day, Bowie show @ the V&a. SO psyched! Going with Pips Taylor and the pinch.tv crew. Charging my little vintage Canon, hope the sweet little thing can hold up for a few hours. Is it just me, or is life getting interesting?
RoadTrip23 is the natural evolution from StreetStyle London, which is still here, and has been since 2009. Because there's more to the world than fashion, and there's more to the world than London. Lovely as London is.
I'll still be posting street style, if something really grabs me, but have expanded into other areas of interest, primarily travel, the arts, culture. Whatever I feel is beautiful or interesting: either man made, or a natural wonder.
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