Time takes a cigarette…
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David Bowie, who met up with Vic backstage at the 2005 Fashion Rocks event (above) proffered this goodbye message…
?The last time I met Vic I had just given up smoking and I mentioned making the casual decision to start smoking at 13 years old as being possibly one of the worst moves of my life, though the artwork on some of the packets was brilliant and kept me buying them just to flash the pack around.?
The ever-present pack of Gitanes in The Thin White Duke‘s waistcoat pocket (above) during The Station To Station Tour of 1976 is a good example of that.
As you can see from the inset in the above picture, it’s a beautifully designed pack and apparently the work of one M Ponty. Ponty was a man responsible for many gorgeous Art Deco illustrations and he shouldn’t be confused with French phenomenological philosopher, Maurice Merleau-Ponty. That really wouldn’t do.
Anyway, good luck with whatever it is you’re doing next Victoria.