Music
Fashion
Styling
Art/Collage
Altered ART
Photos
Astrology
Tarot
Galleons
Historic Costume
18th Century Frock Coats/Tricorns
Edwardian Dandies
Circus Ringmasters
Burlesque
Vaudeville
Caberet
Steampunk
Bustles
Tailcoats
Chinoisere
Geishas/Kimonos etc...
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Music
Marc Bolan
T Rex
David Bowie
Early Rod Stewart and the Faces
Roxy Music
Brian Ferry
Kraftwork
Shakespears Sister
Sparks
Japan
Magazine
Propaganda
Siouxsie and the Banchees
Edwyn Collins
Blow Monkeys
Buzzcocks
Johnny Cash
Nick Cave
Wolfgang Press
Doris Day
Patsy Cline
Hank Williams
Sinead O'Connor
Natalie Merchant
The The
Lene Lovich
Grace Jones
Cocteau Twins
Portishead
Coldplay
Stereo MCs
Simply Red
Joy Division
New Order
Richard Ashcroft
Morrissey/Smiths
White Stripes
Patti Smith
Kate Bush
Tori Amos
Bjork
Amy Winehouse
Talking Heads
Tom Tom Club
Cure
Dangjo Reinheart
Chet Baker
Joss Stone
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
Elvis Costello
Stephen Singleton
Richard Hawley
Rufus Wainwright
David Sylvian
NIN
The Bravery
Killers
The Kills
Scissor Sisters
Vermillian Lies
Dresden Dolls
Goldfrapp
Jill Tracy
Diablo Swing Orchestra
Sophe Lux
Kate Nash
Stevie Gee
Bats for Lashes
Beth Gibbons
Angus & Julia Stone
.....and so much more!!!
Movies
Wings of Desire
Perfume
Run Lola Run
Hobsons Choice
Kes
Room at the Top
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Blow Up
Up the Junction
Portrait of Dorian Gray
Queen Christina
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Lorax
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Love in the Time of Cholera
Even Cowgirls get the Blues
To Kill a Mocking Bird
The Women
Room with a View
Out of Africa
Wings of a Dove
Company of Wolves
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Mirror Mask
The Hunger
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Orlando
The Pillowbook
Quills
Captain Blood
Mildred Pierce
North by Northwest
Johnny Guitar
Red Shoes
Valmont
Tess
Amelie
Slaves of New York
Vertigo
Marnie
Harvey
Nightmare before Xmas
Wuthering Heights (original)
Fellini's Casanova
Jane Eyre
All David Lynch especially Wild at Heart
All Mike Leigh especially Happy Go Lucky
Ghost World
Something Wild
Pecker
Pandoras Box
Miss Potter
Tideland
Twilight
The Prestige
Any costume drama....All Tim Burton
Television
I have a LIFE!
Books
Edgar Allan Poe
Somerset Maugham works
Oscar Wilde everthing
Neil Gaiman works
Alice in Wonderland
Charles Dickens works especially Oliver and Great Expectations
Jane Austen works
Bronte sisters works
Virginia Woolfe works
Gabriel Garcia Marquez works especially Chronicle of a Death Foretold Carlos Castenenda
Anais Nin the works
Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Secret Garden
A-Z Biba
Puss in Boots
Secrets from a Stargazers Notebook
Magazines, Gothic Beauty, Kera, UK Vogue, UK Elle, Mojo, the Cut
Coffee Table Art,Fashion Inspiration books are my favourites!
Heroes
Sandy Powell costume designer worked on Orlando, Gangs of
New York, Velvet Goldmine...
Nick Knight (favourite photographer)
Gustave Dore
Maxfield Parrish
Walter Crane
Isabella Blow
Helena Bonham Carter
Lewis Carol
Sir John Tenniel
Edith Head
Man Ray
Anna Piaggi
Vivienne Westwood
Alexander McQueen
Yohji Yamamoto
John Paul Gaultier
Wim Wenders
Louise Brooks
Antonio Marras
Gregory Peck
Terence Stamp
Laurence Harvey
Ben Whishaw
Barbara Hulaniki
Angelica Huston
Tilda Swinton
My mum :)
Silas:)
My Bro David :)
Captain Finlander :)
My true friends they know who they are!
About me: "Whether I shall turn out to be the HERO in my own life or whether that station shall be held by someone else these pages must show" David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
RETRO-G PROFILE in ISSUE # 24 OF THE STYLE BIBLE GOTHIC BEAUTY MAGAZINE
I am a British Dickensian/Timetraveler/Dandy/Artist living in the wrong century trying to do the best I can! Retro G Couture is known for Unique Top Hats, Tailcoats, Bustle Jackets, pieces that will get you noticed, I am not for the faint of heart! Never known to make the same piece twice!!
I am inspired by Mens Historic Costume, Dandies, Libertines, Pirates, Highwaymen, Glam Rock, 18th Century Costume, Magicians, Conjurers, Full Moons, Tree roots, trains the age of steam locomotives, Steam Punk oppulence and drama with a dark edge!
Favourite quotes:-
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." Anais Nin
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn burn burn like fabulous yellow candles exploding like spiders across the stars" JACK KEROUAC
"Real Life? You couldnt handle Real Life!" Neil Gaiman/Mirror Mask
"Shes so swishy in her satin and tat. In her frock coat and bipperty-bopperty hat Oh God I could do better than that"
-"QUEEN BITCH DAVID BOWIE"
"Beauty is an ecstacy it is as simple as breathing" -SOMERSET MAUGHAM
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream
-EDGAR ALLAN POE
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I would collaborate with any of the following in a heartbeat!
Ann Piaggi
Floria Sigismundi
Tina Cassati
John Paul Gaultier
Vivienne Westwood
Antonio Marras
Sandy Powell
Nick Knight
AVAILABLE FOR STYLING MUSIC VIDEOS, PHOTO SHOOTS anon...
In the midnight forest the dark oak trees are still under the stars. The pale wildflowers in the clearing have furled their petals for the night. Suddenley he appears, a milk white creature with the proud form of a horse. . . .you see the curved neck, the silver mane, the graceful tail. Then he moves his head, and the moonlight runs like sea water along the pearly spiral of his horn. There is no sound, but at the next heart beat the clearing is once again empty of all but the night. Georgess McHargue
I am a kind word uttered and repeated by the voice of nature; I am a star fallen from the blue tent upon the green carpet. I am the daughter of the elements with whom winter conceived; To whom Spring gave birth; I was reared in the lap of Summer and I slept in the bed of Autumn.
At dawn I unite with the breeze to announce the coming of light; At eventide I join the birds in bidding the light farewell.
The plains are decorated with my beautiful colours, And the air is scented with my fragrance.
As I embrace slumber the eyes of night watch over me, And as I awaken I stare at the sun, Which is the only eye of the day.
I drink dew for wine, and harken to the voices of the birds, And dance to the rhythmic swaying of the grass.
I am the lover's gift; I am the wedding wreath; I am the memory of a moment of happiness; I am the last gift of the living to the dead; I am a part of joy and a part of sorrow.
But I look up high to see only the light, And never look down to see my shadow. This is wisdom which man must learn.
Gloucester was great with Saturday warm and humid and Sunday wet mist with occasional slight drizzling rain and wind from a summer noreaster off the coast.
