Archived Snip: Independant Radar, grunge and sequins

Scans from an old Independent Radar magazine from a Saturday Independent

- dunno the date but I can say with a bit of certainty that is it from this year.  

The above costume is really fascinating just because of the abundance of blue glittering sequins.

They catch the light really well, making the costume look more and more intricate and

expensive or couture like.

Then there is the mask made from a kind of net that is also lined with sequins.

The face made highlights the unconventional use of sequins over the facial features.     

 In the above and below images, the singer is dressed in different textures, including feathered,

which beside the grungy and splattered background makes everything look raw and edgy.   

Covered: The Yellow Wallpaper

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
is an amazing collection
a writer who accomplished great things for Utopian feminism.

The cover itself is what really caught my eye,
I first saw a copy of this book at the DLI in Durham,
at the Pattern exhibition,
a collection of work relating to pattern
by various amazing artists. 

There was also a collection of reading material 

relating to pattern or the artists - or in most cases both.

The cover plays upon this piece of wallpaper in the book's namesake story, 

in which a woman is thought to need rest to 

be cured of her mental problems, this doesn't really work 

of course but she is deeply interested in the wallpaper 

on the walls of her room which she is given whilst on this 'holiday'. 

To her it is alive.

it certainly looks that way form the cover.