Available now on Ebay for under $50.00. And it comes with instructions! Ah, but the makeup kit is optional.

Mens Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie fancy dress costume - one size fits most (chest up to 44”)

The stunning outfit, which comes in its resealable hanging package, includes the following:

   * Shirt
   * Trousers
   * Boot tops
   * Belt with lightning decoration

Face painting kit also available as optional in this listing (+£5). The kit contains:

   * 5 Face paints
   * 5 Water-activated glitter sticks
   * 1 Brush
   * Instructions

Thanks to Cherry Bombed

 
Here’s some great, candid footage of Grace Jones on the set of the 1986 film Vamp. First there’s an interview in some amazing Egyptian headgear, and then a strangely intimate video of her rehearsing for the role as the two thousand year old vampire Katrina with the film’s director Robert Wenk. I’ve been a huge fan of Ms Jones for a long time, but have to admit I have never seen this film, even though the whole thing is up on YouTube. I will someday, even if it is just for her amazing outfits, and the Keith Haring body art.  Although I get the feeling that you could dress her in random items pulled from a garbage truck and she would still look breathtaking, it’s funny how different Grace comes off in her interviews to her public image - articulate, funny, warm, even slightly goofy. I’d definitely hang with her.
 

 
After the jump, Grace rehearses for a scene in Vamp, plus the scene itself.

Previously on DM:
Keith Haring & Grace Jones: Flesh graffiti and the Queen of the Vampires.

 
(via KFMW)

 
A tantalizingly brief clip of a collaboration between fashion giant Yves Saint-Laurent and composer/arranger/ key Serge Gainsbourg collaborator, Jean-Claude Vannier. A version of L’enfant la Mouche et les Allumettes from Vannier’s 1972 LP L’enfant Assassin des Mouches (pictured above) is performed as rather surreal accompaniment to the fashion goings-on from The Roland Petit Show in 1971. Wish it went on longer.
 

 
Bonus: A few songs from the wonderful aformentioned LP
 

Le Roi Des Mouches Et La Confiture De Rouse
 

Les Gardes Volent Au Secours Du Roi
 

L`enfant Au Royaume Des Mouches
 
With thanks to Justin Meldal-Johnsen !

 
Stay pretty after a hard day of racist tea-bagging!

Of all the prominent woman I can think of to give celebrity beauty tips, I must admit that lemon-faced Republican church lady Sharron Angle, recently defeated in the Nevada Senate race because she’s fucking nuts would not be one of them. Nevertheless, on Janurary 21, Angle was the special guest of SeneGence International at a beauty seminar they held in Las Vega:

Sharron will be sharing her beauty and makeup challenges during the campaign and how she overcame them! She had confidence that she would look great with 14 -16 hour days & with numerous appearances daily… so can you!

Please be our guest… you will be glad you did!

* Girlfriend time
* Chat with Sharron
* Learn some new make-up tips & techniques
* Find out about an amazing revolutionary skin care line (guaranteed to take 55% of your fine lines and wrinkles away in 8 weeks!) NO kidding
* Free gift for all who attend

Sounds fun, right? I think so too! See you there!

!!!

Via Joe.My.God.

 
Here’s a tasty little documentary from 1979 on the British mod movement of the 60s and its revival in the late 70s. It was obviously created as a tie-in with the release of The Who movie Quadrophenia.

Includes an interview with venerable rock journalist Roy Carr, sporting a combover that looks like roadkill, and London’s short-lived neo-mod band, The Chords.
 

Four On The Floor in the studio.
 
In 2006 Jayne County, Ginger Coyote, Cherry Vanilla and Holly Woodlawn, under the name of Four On The Floor, gave The Shirelles 1960 record “Boys” the Superstar treatment. Trashy good fun from pop culture immortals.

The notorious Ginger Coyote of Punk Globe Magazine and The White Trash Debutantes  was nice enough to share with me a bit of info about the recording session that spawned “Boys.”

Jayne and I wanted to do a joint recording project so when Jayne came to Los Angeles we went into rehearsals with the band Jasten King on Guitar, Brian Hill on drums and the late Willy Graves on bass. The White Trash Debutantes had written and recorded a song called Punk Rak RepubliKKKan. I played it for Jayne and she liked it but felt punk rock was to limiting so she re-wrote the lyrics and we decided that Rock n Roll RepubliKKKan would work.. She also had another song she really wanted to record and that was “Transgeneration” about how Transgender people have been put in very high regard in many cultures in history. Sadly, they have not gotten the fair shake from Christianity.. It is a call to let people know that Transgender people will not take the Bullshit anymore… The third song we recorded we enlisted the fabulous Cherry Vanilla and Holly Woodlawn to record a cover of “Boys”.. It become such a fun song to record we added Constance Cooper and Don Bolles (Germs) on the recording… Making an extended version of the song…. There was a Video made of the last days recording….. It was a great recording session and we got alot done in just a few days…”

Here’s Four On The Floor’s “Boys” with lots of boys.
 

 
The kind folks over at ModCinema recently sent me a fantastic 2-hour compilation culled from the ranks of the many incredible—and long out of print, or never released in versions with English subtitles—films that they carry. It’s titled Colorspace Vol.1 and covers the “mod” cultural territory of 60s/70s film and television. Interspersed with trailers from films like Barbarella, I Love You Alice B. Toklas and dozens more (many that I’d never even heard of before) you’ll find wonderful vintage TV ads and musical performances from Los Bravos(!), Tommy Roe, Brigitte Bardot, Nancy Sinatra and Colorspace Vol. 1 is especially well art-directed. Professional graphic designers and design snobs will love it.

Order your copy of Colorspace Vol. 1 from Mod Cinema.

The below clip, from 1968’s Erotissimo, is a fine exemplar of the ModCinema esthetic:
 

The Catacombs, 12 March 1969

Extraordinarily intimate portraits of the denizens of Cape Town, South Africa’s “Les Catacombs” nightclub taken by photographer Billy Monk in 1969, when he was working as a bouncer at the club. Monk also took pictures of the revelry, which he sold to the subjects. Monk’s friendship with many of the people in his photographs is perhaps the explanation for how he got such “let it out hang out” type scenarios on film.

Monk’s contact sheets and negatives were found in 1982 by Jac de Villiers who arranged an exhibition at the Market Gallery in Johannesburg. Monk never saw the ehibition as he was shot dead in a fight two weeks after the show opened. Jac De Villiers has revisited Monk’s work and curated a new exhibition of Monks classic images and some previously unseen at the Michael Stevenson Gallery in Cape Town, from March 1 to April 9, 2011.

The Catacombs, 1968

See more kooky photographs after the jump…
 

 
Festive 1940s advertisement for Jester Wools.

(via Chateau Thombeau)