We’d almost forgotten what it looked like! And so well accessorised.
I really think you hardly need an Elegantly Dressed Wednesday piece this week. You’ve had Joyce’n'Beckett play pitch’n'putt; you’ve had Stalin and Gorky, with Gorky in that lovely overcoat, with what look like tennis shoes and a hippy skullcap; and you’ve had that outrageous picture of Gorky with Feodor Chaliapin, – which was a bit thrown away, to be honest. It goes through me like a jolt every time. But Gainsbourg I promised you and Gainsbourg you must have.
He’s great, isn’t he! And you can just tell that that shirt, of which we can only see the top inch, is a very good shirt. But best of all, he looks (& you know I mean this in a GOOD way) exactly as if he comes out of the cartoons.
(Edited in: Actually, looking back over that last post, I see that Gorky is ALL about the overcoat. It is his emblematic garment – it reeks of success, it exudes power, and in the picture with Chaliapin he wears it over his shoulders like a magnanimous gesture.)
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May 7, 2008 at 8:07 am
Now you’ve hit on one of my heroes. Time to share this gag from the Graun:
He was desperate for love, and when, ageing and debauched, he appeared on a French TV show surrounded by 60 adoring children dressed as mini-Serges in jeans and white shoes and with little Gitanes in their mouths, he was said never to have been happier.
I’m only amazed no-one’s chosen Serge for an EDW before. Dornan did Anna Karina, which is well worth looking at.
May 7, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Serge’s music was pretty good too.
Sadly Dornan’s linked to a YouTube video of the lovely Anna Karina that is no more. A shame that, Mme Godard was a beautiful creature, just watch Bande à part sometime.
May 7, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Fear ye not, the video in question is also available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPJ4iiL89CY
Isn’t she breathtaking?
May 8, 2008 at 1:06 am
Thanks for that, Ben.
Yes.