Mills and Boon - The Art of Romance

For all the quivering nipples, the hardened masculinity and rippled pectorals, it’s the covers that envelope Mills & Boon tales that remain a reflection of society’s changing attitude to romance, relationships, sex and desire. ‘The Art of Romance: Mills & Boon and Harlequin Cover Designs’ celebrates the cover art over the last century.

 

Boudicca retain a warrior attitude that would make their namesake proud. And now Wode – their new fragrance named for the ancient queen’s bright blue war paint – combines both sight and smell, splattering the wearer with a wash of intense blue pigment.

 

John Waters - writer, director, artist, raconteur and celebrated Pope of Trash - may well be the exception that proves the rule; the Hollywood enfant terrible who refuses to mellow with age. In a rare interview, John Waters talks about the aesthetics of trash, and looks back on a long and eventful career.

 

In the 1930s Leni Riefenstahl was already under Adolf Hitler’s spell after attending one of his rallies. She sought him out. She sent him a fan letter. The Führer in turn offered the dancer and actor turned filmmaker the world on a plate.

 

Inspired by the Pistols to form Buzzcocks with guitarist Pete Shelley, singer Howard Devoto quickly found himself shackled by the sheep flocking to punk orthodoxy. So Buzzcocks continued with the diminutive Shelley delivering the ultimate teenage love songs, whilst Howard left to be reborn as something much more interesting.

 

Desire used to be a private realm. It was played out In the shadows, behind closed doors and in secret. No longer. What was once forbidden is now in the harsh light of the camera’s glare. ‘Darkside, Vol I: Photographic Desire and Sexuality Photographed’ is a collection of photographs that witnesses our sexual liaisons and their evolution through the twentieth century and beyond.

 

Gang Gang Dance

RamoSport

Nike

Betty Botox

Yoko Ono

Baptist Viry

Tim Ten Yen

Tony O’Neil feature

 

Flux Space Special - John Goto ‘Dance to the Muzik of Time’

Fiction - ‘Adulthood’ by Tony O’Neil

 

Plus J Lindeberg, Arielle de Pinto, Reality Studio, Pelican Avenue, Fila celebrate 35 years in fashion, Anglomania, Yoox Jewels, Limi Feu, Gola and eBoy, Goliath, Lacoste & Visionaire, Stella & Le Sportsac, Swear Greatest Hits, School of Seven Bells, Ladyhawke, Fortuna Pop, Of Montreal, The Miserable Rich, Lisa Mitchell, Club Brenda, ATP and Melvins, Pascal Comelade, Micah P. Hinson, Jimi Tenor & Kabu Kabu, Beagles and Ramsay’s Good Teeth, You Me Bum Bum Train, Ding>>Dong, Charles Atlas’ Tornado Warning, GSK Contemporary, The Return of the Mind Projected Cinema, William Burroughs’ Life File Books, The Essence of Perfume, Trouble the Water, Lotte Reiniger’s Fairy Tale Films, MAC Metal Urge

 

At the Front

Regulars

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Shooting Sex

Howard Devoto / Magazine

Leni and the Führer

John Waters

Boudicca