The world’s skinniest clothes horse gets a biopic of sorts, and Happy Birthday Marie Curie!
My Mum used to make delicious a delicious veal (sometimes chicken) slices crumbed with parmesan called cotolettie Lots of cotolette, in fact. I always tell my Mum that cotolette have always been one of my top three dishes. Boy, did I love my cotolette. Sometimes you had cotolette with parmigiana-style stuffing. That was a big one. Sometimes they’d be served with pippi rostiti. That’s roasted peppers in case you haven’t studied Latin.
Oh, sorry, this is a story about supermodel Twiggy. I just suddenly felt hungry for a half-minute there. Oh, and Google’s just shot a window in my face telling me that its Marie Curie’s birthday today (Happy Birthday, Madame Curie, and I so hope you can see this message through some kind of genius x-ray-like stereoscopic vision from another universe, my Love).
Now, what was I saying? Ah yes, Twiggy.
Accomplished actor and director Sadie Frost has made a film (moreso, documentary but we like to call them documentary films, you see) on Twiggy and her mark left along history’s long line of muses and idols. As the publisher of a fashion magazine myself, I recognise the beauty, the poise, the grace. Sometimes it was a bit too rigamortis for my tastes. And yes, sometimes I thought a good steak (or cotaletta) would have done her good. But this girl could strike a pose sharper than an A-line skirt – and probably wearing one, along with matching big round ball-y-like earrings.
“Pippi what?”
no bulldust
The documentary was released in the UK way earlier this year, but is only having its Australian release when it drops in cinemas on December 4. The producers may have reverted to the old way of cinema and TV distribution back in the ’60s. We good folk of the northern hemisphere shall create and view something ourselves, and once the backpatting and pottery gift-giving was done, so we may then send it off to the Antipodeans to gasp over. For it will be good, and it will be proven good, and the brutes will see and enjoy it because we have seen and enjoyed it. Or it could just be a pretty average doco that bid some time to get to our screens, hoping we didn’t even know it was on up there half a year ago. But I digress.
I’d personally love to know if it will be a warts-and-all study of the fashion industry back in the ’60s, with all its hedonism, drug-taking and extra-curricular love-making. But the, those cheeky English always like to keep the really fun stuff for behind the bedroom door.
One thing I know for certain is that Twiggy did a dandy good job at challenging gender aesthetics, what with her boy-ish haircut, flat chest, and eyes that you couldn’t tell whether they belonged to a rabbit-in-headlights-like gamin or someone who knew a few secrets about the real goings-on in aforementioned fields.
But what am I fussing about? It’s a documentary on a fabulous fashion model. There you go.
Artist Ben Frost is moving house, so stacks of his fantastic artworks are going on sale at the end of this month
Born mid-’70s at the peak of punk, and living his teen years by the end of the commercial-laden ’80s, it’s no wonder visual artist Ben Frost injects so much disposable pop culture into his artworks. The only thing is, his unique pieces are for keeps!
Frost has a trademark knack for satirising consumer culture – in an even funnier way than, say, Andy Warhol or Roy Lichtenstein used to. Some of Frost’s works actually appear on product packaging itself – redesigns of prescription drug packets, stencil works on empty McDonald’s fries cartons, and so on.
The Australian artist has exhibited in London, New York, Los Angeles, Singapore, Berlin, and Miami, and has collaborated with fashion labels including Moschino and Carolina Herrera. He also has a strong online presence, with particular dedication to his digital flagship store benfrostisdead.com.
Up until now, Ben has called Melbourne home (though he is originally from Brisbane). Other quarters are now calling, so instead of bringing all of his works – large and small – across with him to his new dwellings, he is giving the rest of us the gift of the great discount.The Moving Sale will run from 10am-4pm on Saturday 29 November and the artist has promised that certain works will be available online so that us interstate fans can shop like mad. Keep an eye out for updates on Ben’s Instagram page here.
Cream will definitely be locking this date into the diary.
Note: The artworks shown are not necessarily representative of what will be on sale but, heck, everything this guy puts to canvas, pill package, or even throw pillow is worth having a look at.
Guinness World Records 2026 packs plenty of pop culture punch: we’ve got 15 copies to give away!
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The song Driftin’ is a cover of a classic 1970s disco track covered by Cream‘s founding editor Antonino Tati. It’s only a dollar to download the track through Bandcamp, and all proceeds are going to the Bobby Goldsmith Foundation (BGF) for their work in assisting Australians affected by HIV. Cream will be contributing toward the donation, too. Listen out for lots of cheeky innuendo and a special appearance by soul singer Barry White! The song is also available on the usual platforms including Apple Music, Amazon, Spotify, Tidal and YouTube Music.
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