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This weekend has passed and Friday also passed, with a fantastic turn out at the anti-street violence rally in Stockholm in memory or Riccardo Campogiani. 12.000 people showed up in the cold and rain.
It is now 1.10 am and I intend to start this week on a more frivolous tone than last time I wrote this blog.
Trying to fill you in on my last days in London last week.
On the Saturday I went to the Rubber Ball, a great fetish party with amazing artists and a realy good crowd and excellent DJ's. The highlight of that evening must have been when a dressage cavalier showed up in full top hat and uniform and his two (human) horses, two tall and very beautiful women that played the lipizan horse part amazingly. It really was fantastic showmanship and it gave me the insiration to shoot such a picture as the last picture to be shot for my fetish book, at least for this coming edition.
On the Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning I strolled through London together wit my very good friend and colleague (well, she's almost part of the family, in fact we say that we have adopted her) Camilla, who's a real sweetheart.
Camilla took some pictures of me (here below) going through some monuments of my past in London, like for instance Shakespeare Tower in the Barbican, where I lived with my parents for a few years and then alone onc my parents left to go and live in Kuwait. The Barbican was a great architectural project of the 70's in the City of London. I loved living there.
I lived on the 11th floor of Shakespeare Tower with my parents but very often I would spent a lot of time on the 42nd floor, in the apartment next door to Roger Moore's, in Paul Raymond's penthouse where I had my friends Danny and Debbie, two models working in those days for Paul Raymond.
When my parents moved out of home (yes, it happened that way in my life since my father got transferred to the Italian Embassy in Kuwait and I did not want to follow them), I moved to the appropriately named Andrews House, also in the Barbican, shown behind me in this picture.
The walk through London ith Camilla continued through Hyde Park and onto Kensington, past Sloane Avenue, where I lived for the first part of my life in London with my parents and down the King's Road.
First I took Camilla to see where i used to hang out when I was not in school, together with the other punks of the time and often even with Sid Vicious, outside what was then called SEX, Vivienne Westwood's shop, that then changed he name to Seditionaries and then to its current name of World's End.
Unfortunately the boutique was closed, but through the window I managed to notice that thy still sell the old pirate boots and shirts, of which I had several of but lost everything through my frequent moves around the world...but I have promised myself to re-buy most of the things I had in those days, they really where great and still so modern!
We then walked back up the King's Road towards Sloane Square and into Glebe Place, where I first workes as a photo assistant to Bardo Fabiani, a true master of fashion photography in those days, ex-assistant to David Bailey.
The studio in Glebe Place lookd just as good from the outside and memories began rushing through my mind of those days when I worked for Bardo during the day and at Planets at night time, together with Boy George, who at the time was working there as a DJ and I was working in the wardrobe.
Boy George will be in Stockholm this week and I really hope I'll be able to meet him, wondering if he still remembers those days...
I wonder why I am being so nostalgic at the moment. London really brought back a lot of very nice memories. Maybe it's because I'm getting old? Maybe it's because I miss the stimuli of a metropolis...who knows?
One shop that still exists on the King' Road is a shop whose contents is nothing to write home about, but the name of which always brings a smile to my lips:
A quick word about Facebook. While in London and reminiscing, I managed to get in touch with an old school friend of mine, Christiane, and I also got in touch again with another school friend from London, Alain, who has now become my Miami agent. The wonders of the net...
Also on Facebook I found a great looking model, Ida, that I hope to be able to shoot this week, if I do you'll probably see the pictures in here soon...or on my Facebook group.
Well, it's quite late and it's time for me to say good night and have a great week!
PS: my site www.belluso.com is undergoing a minor face-lift. Please be patient if you experience some layout problems and do visit again on tuesday.
It is now 1.10 am and I intend to start this week on a more frivolous tone than last time I wrote this blog.
Trying to fill you in on my last days in London last week.
On the Saturday I went to the Rubber Ball, a great fetish party with amazing artists and a realy good crowd and excellent DJ's. The highlight of that evening must have been when a dressage cavalier showed up in full top hat and uniform and his two (human) horses, two tall and very beautiful women that played the lipizan horse part amazingly. It really was fantastic showmanship and it gave me the insiration to shoot such a picture as the last picture to be shot for my fetish book, at least for this coming edition.
On the Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning I strolled through London together wit my very good friend and colleague (well, she's almost part of the family, in fact we say that we have adopted her) Camilla, who's a real sweetheart.
Camilla took some pictures of me (here below) going through some monuments of my past in London, like for instance Shakespeare Tower in the Barbican, where I lived with my parents for a few years and then alone onc my parents left to go and live in Kuwait. The Barbican was a great architectural project of the 70's in the City of London. I loved living there.
I lived on the 11th floor of Shakespeare Tower with my parents but very often I would spent a lot of time on the 42nd floor, in the apartment next door to Roger Moore's, in Paul Raymond's penthouse where I had my friends Danny and Debbie, two models working in those days for Paul Raymond.When my parents moved out of home (yes, it happened that way in my life since my father got transferred to the Italian Embassy in Kuwait and I did not want to follow them), I moved to the appropriately named Andrews House, also in the Barbican, shown behind me in this picture.
The walk through London ith Camilla continued through Hyde Park and onto Kensington, past Sloane Avenue, where I lived for the first part of my life in London with my parents and down the King's Road.
First I took Camilla to see where i used to hang out when I was not in school, together with the other punks of the time and often even with Sid Vicious, outside what was then called SEX, Vivienne Westwood's shop, that then changed he name to Seditionaries and then to its current name of World's End.
Unfortunately the boutique was closed, but through the window I managed to notice that thy still sell the old pirate boots and shirts, of which I had several of but lost everything through my frequent moves around the world...but I have promised myself to re-buy most of the things I had in those days, they really where great and still so modern!
We then walked back up the King's Road towards Sloane Square and into Glebe Place, where I first workes as a photo assistant to Bardo Fabiani, a true master of fashion photography in those days, ex-assistant to David Bailey.
The studio in Glebe Place lookd just as good from the outside and memories began rushing through my mind of those days when I worked for Bardo during the day and at Planets at night time, together with Boy George, who at the time was working there as a DJ and I was working in the wardrobe.
Boy George will be in Stockholm this week and I really hope I'll be able to meet him, wondering if he still remembers those days...
I wonder why I am being so nostalgic at the moment. London really brought back a lot of very nice memories. Maybe it's because I'm getting old? Maybe it's because I miss the stimuli of a metropolis...who knows?
One shop that still exists on the King' Road is a shop whose contents is nothing to write home about, but the name of which always brings a smile to my lips:
A quick word about Facebook. While in London and reminiscing, I managed to get in touch with an old school friend of mine, Christiane, and I also got in touch again with another school friend from London, Alain, who has now become my Miami agent. The wonders of the net...
Also on Facebook I found a great looking model, Ida, that I hope to be able to shoot this week, if I do you'll probably see the pictures in here soon...or on my Facebook group.
Well, it's quite late and it's time for me to say good night and have a great week!
PS: my site www.belluso.com is undergoing a minor face-lift. Please be patient if you experience some layout problems and do visit again on tuesday.
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