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Fashion…Turn to your right, Stella…
By now, you will all have heard about DB’s surprise appearance at the VH-1 Vogue Fashion Awards held on Friday night at Madison Square Garden. Our man was there to announce the winner of the ‘Fashion Designer Of The Year’ award, which went to UK designer Stella McCartney for her work with the Chloe fashion house. David made his entrance toward the end of the show to the sound of ‘Fashion’ (appropriately enough) replicating, rather convincingly, the dance steps of James Brown, (who had just performed a duet with Lenny Kravitz) and receiving a huge roar of couturier approval for his trouble!
Continuing his patronage of designer Alexander McQueen, Mr Bowie cut a dash in a two-piece, dark brown chocolate cashmere suit with thin black pencil stripe, and a regular-collared, chocolate brown shirt. His greeting of “Hello beautiful people…and living skeletons” to a celebrity-heavy audience liberally sprinkled with supermodels, left a look of puzzlement on the faces of only a few of the assembled guests.
After David announced the winner of the ‘Fashion Designer Of The Year’ award, Stella made her way up to accept the award, but pretending there had been a “bit of a cock-up” and that he didn’t in fact have the trophy, David offered a couple of tickets for next year’s Zoolander movie (in which he makes a cameo appearance) by way of compensation.
Picture: KEVIN MAZUR UMAZ/LFI
Peter, Paul and Mary…Ooops, I mean Paul, David and Stella!
At this point, and to Stella’s obvious surprise, her father, Paul McCartney (who used to be in a band himself, and also enjoys painting…even producing a bizarre painting of a not very well Ziggy!) appeared carrying the trophy. Stella ran over to Daddy McCartney, and was clearly overcome with emotion as they hugged, if not a little embarrassed by the legend on his T-shirt which read: ‘About Flippin’ Time’…This was in direct retaliation to a T-shirt that Stella wore at her father’s induction to The Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame which bore the same words, but employed the shock tactic of a slightly stronger F word.
The VH-1 Vogue Fashion Awards show will be regularly repeated over the coming weeks in the USA, the first repeat is scheduled for 24th October at 4.30 pm on VH1, with no definite date for a UK screening. However, keep your fingers crossed for a glimpse of David’s appearance at the ceremony on the Celebrity! programme on ITV in the UK tomorrow (24th) at 5:05, repeated the following day (Wednesday) on the same channel at 1:30 in the afternoon.
Total Blam Blam – (European Correspondent)