#90s ladettes

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Dexter Fletcher tries to pick up Kelly Macdonald on her way home in Tube Tales (1999) and it's exactly like Renton and Diane in Trainspotting (1996).

I've always thought that the reason why Kelly Macdonald has been cast by so many major directors like Robert Altman, The Coen Brothers and Martin Scorsese, as well as top tv showrunners, is not just because she's beautiful and a good low-key drama actress who can do accents. It's also because they all went mad for Diane the ladette and her no bullshit way of dealing with Renton when she takes him home.

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This link will take you to a collection of screenshots I contributed to IMDB of Kelly Macdonald in various movies and tv, from Trainspotting to the present.

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Kelly Macdonald in Trainspotting (1996).

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This link will take you to a collection of screenshots I contributed to IMDB of Kelly Macdonald in various movies and tv, from Trainspotting to the present.

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Blokette core: sporty with a feminine twist

Is this new trend a celebration of football culture or class appropriation?

TikTok has given rise to many ‘core’ trends like ballet, fairy, and gorp but the current ‘core’ which has everyone obsessed is blokette core.

Blokette core is a fusion between the masculine, sporty bloke aesthetic with the hyperfeminine coquette style. Independent label Peachy Den recently dropped a new collection inspired by football and blokette core called ‘Glory Days’. Also, German sportswear company Adidas is collaborating with the famed Florentine fashion house Gucci for another collection.

Blokette Core first went viral due to the World Cup frenzy at the end of 2022, and the hype doesn’t seem to be dying down anytime soon as videos tagged #blokettecore have scored an impressive 19.1 million views on Tik Tok.

The components making up the blokette capsule wardrobe include: oversized football jerseys, vintage Adidas track jackets, micro-minis, denim midi-skirts and baggy tracksuits. For footwear, Adidas trainers like Forum Lows, Gazelles or Sambas are another staple in a blokette’s wardrobe.

Instagram’s favourite It girl and model Bella Hadid is rarely seen without her Sambas, which could be the reason behind a surge in Google searches of her favourite shoe. There’s been a 350% surge in Samba searches during the last three months.

“The thing I like about blokette core is the casualness of it, you can’t really go wrong with it,” said LCF fashion student and blokette fan, Kateleigh Tome.

“As I grew up with this style and was constantly surrounded by it, it’s nice to see that it’s still being worn today.”

Finding the middle ground between femininity and masculinity is the key to achieving the blokette look.

For those wanting to give the trend a go, substituting the laces in your Adidas trainers for baby pink ribbons is a good start, or layering a vintage football jersey over a mini skirt works for those aspiring to be a little more daring. Try adding pastel-coloured bows to your hair for the ultimate blokette badge of approval.

On the surface, blokette core seems like a harmless celebration and feminisation of football-lad culture but can it be argued that this latest Tik Tok trend, is an appropriation of the British working-class aesthetic?

Arguably, blokette is 2023’s spin on the 90s-word ‘ladette’. A ladette is recognised as a working-class girl, with a scruffy attitude. She doesn’t care about the confines of gender roles and doesn’t mind taking a seat at the table at some of society’s most masculine hotspots – the grungier the pub, the better.

The look was first demonised when it first made its way to the social scene in the 1990s, but now its return is welcomed with (a fashionista’s) open arms.

If you need further visual representation of the look, BBC series Little Britain (2005) was filled with characters sporting the look. One of its main characters, Vicky Pollard is arguably the most memorable yet negative representation of working-class women in the media: “Whether nicking stuff from the supermarket or swapping her baby for a Westlife CD, Vicky reacts to any accusation with indignant outrage,” reads the BBC’s synopsis of the series.

Pollard could be seen as harmless fun, but the creators behind her character, two privately educated white men, has triggered social media discussion and perception 20-odd years on.

In 2006, YouGov carried out a survey at Edinburgh’s Film Festival, and found that the majority of participants felt that the depiction of Pollard on screen was an authentic depiction of single, working class mums off screen, according to The Guardian.

In addition, survey participants felt that Pollard  is a manifestation of a ‘chav’.

‘Chav’ is a derogatory term used to describe lower-class people who stereotypically behave in an antisocial way. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the government created a moral panic about chavs, which the media helped perpetuate.

Pollard’s iconic TV wardrobe of a Kappa zip-up, fluffy hair scrunchy, flared joggers and trainers, is a lesson in how to dress blokette, despite the character’s controversy.

However, when working-class people dress in a similar way, society arguably deems them as poor, or indeed a chav.

There is undoubtedly a double standard in fashion as clothes that are seen as trendy and cool on a middle-class white person, are typically seen as cheap and ‘chavvy’ on someone who is working class.

Kateleigh Tome explains: “When I was growing up, blokette core type clothing was what my family could afford at the time. Whenever someone walked past wearing a top from Sports Direct and baggy jeans or trackies I would always hear a comment [from passers-by] how that person is a chav and that you can tell they live in a council flat.”

The fashion industry is notorious for taking elements of working-class life such as clothing and making it palatable for higher social classes.

For example, in the early noughties, Burberry’s check pattern became popular amongst the working class and the classist British press was quick to label the check pattern as ‘chav wear’, making Burberry believe their association with the working class was damaging its image.

As a result, Burberry started to fade the Nova check out of its production line and they discontinued the once iconic Nova check cap, which was worn and loved by working-class football fans, to revoke their association with the working class. The Burberry check was now only featured in five per cent of products.

Fast forward to the late 2010s when the middle class and social elites no longer want to appear wealthy anymore, Burberry released its SS18 collection which was a Nova Check paradise. Now, instead of shying away from sport-leisure, brands are embracing the style, through the art of collaborating: In 2022 Gucci and Adidas created a world-dominating collection and for SS23 the two companies are collaborating again for another collection.

Is it as simple to say then, that working-class style is popular in fashion now because rich people don’t want to appear rich? According to LCF fashion student Saida Mahad, people wear working-class clothing: “To feel like they look like those around them,” and Tome agrees.

“Today, especially on social media, middle-class people are one of the main targets for criticism as they’re sort of out of touch. So, I think what happened years ago to working-class people is happening now to middle-class people and they’re trying to look less prestige. It’s all about fitting in.”

On the other hand, social media has allowed the fashion world to become more accessible to the working class and they are now able to influence fashion in ways they haven’t been able to before. So, this could be why recent trends have roots in working-class culture.

Now that the working-class aesthetic is loved by the fashion industry, maybe it’s time the industry starts to appreciate the working class people who are trying to finally break fashion’s seemingly impenetrable class ceiling.

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^excellent commentary!

i also wanna add that in the 90s british comedy was seen as 'the new rock&roll' AND most comedians (who coincidentally were straight white men, go figure) thought that bc of a seemingly progressive labour govt entering the scene and the 'ladette' era they were now allowed to do jokes that were 'ironically' misogynistic, homophobic etc.

thing is, in the past few years the far right has become mainstream again, and therefore joking at the expense of minorities can't be even seen as 'playfully edgy' anymore, bc they're essentially parroting and reinforcing things that ppl in power are already saying with complete seriousness.

"In the 70s it was black and minority ethnic people, in the 80s it was gay people, trans people are just the latest to get it in the neck from comedians who can't be bothered to try at their jobs anymore. I cannot stand there and watch another dogshit comedian go: 'Ooohh if a woman can identify as a man, maybe I'll identify as a chair!' Why don't you identify as good comedians, you hack motherfuckers?!"

- Nish Kumar: "It's In Your Nature To Destroy Yourselves pt.2"

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Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me from Success by Miki Berenyi review – a shoegaze star’s painful past | Autobiography and memoir

Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me from Success by Miki Berenyi review – a shoegaze star’s painful past | Autobiography and memoir

The 90s are often seen as synonymous with champagne supernovas in country houses, oversimplifications ingrained in the lore of Britpop. What really happened? Artists of all kinds ignited and flared for a time, forming a kaleidoscopic night sky obscured in retrospect by the light pollution given off by Blur v Oasis, Loaded and ladettes, flag-waving and parochialism. One of the most will o’ the…

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Melanie C says her public image doesn't align with her real-life self

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Melanie C says her public image doesn't align with her real-life self

The 46-year-old pop star believes she’s been seen as a symbol of “ladette culture” since the 90s, but in reality, Melanie …

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Zoe Ball weight loss: Strictly It Takes Two star’s diet secret revealed

ZOE BALL is a regular on British TV an the radio. The star is known for her frank manner and kickstarting the “Ladette” trend in the 90s. She has recently discussed weight loss before appearing on Strictly: It Takes Two. from Daily Express :: Diets Feed http://bit.ly/314DcCN via Natural Ways To Increase Breast Size Reference:Healthy Food

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Zoë Ball Reflects On The '90s And Her 'Ladette' Reputation Ahead Of New Breakfast Show Gig

Zoë Ball Reflects On The ’90s And Her ‘Ladette’ Reputation Ahead Of New Breakfast Show Gig

Ahead of making her return to breakfast radio next week, Zoë Ball has reflected on how the industry has changed since her Radio 1 days.

From Monday, the 48-year-old will present Radio 2’s Breakfast Show, but back in the mid to late ’90s she hosted the Radio 1 equivalent.

At the time, Britpop was ruling the airwaves while Zoë and her female peers – including Sara Coxand Jo Whiley – were…

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Brighton Visit - VINTAGE AND STYLISTIC RESEARCH -

As a part of exploring the 50 possibilities project in order to give inspiration for our final major project we took a visit to Brighton. I am always in Brighton, I shop there, eat there, my friends live there, I go out for night life there- so all in all I'm pretty familiar with it, but by having an organised visit gave me direction to search for inspirations. My current ideas for the final major project are slowly gearing more towards fashion as a means of expressing my ongoing concept and ideas. Previously I have been looking at 90′s/early 2000s fashion, the working-class ‘chav’ stereotype, the birth of ‘ladettes’ and working class influence on fashion today. Looking at the vintage styles dotted around the quirky retro shops in Brighton lanes helped me to piece together what constitutes those looks I have been previously looking at, as well as making connections between older styles and the trends we have today (i.e. sports-casual wear). I also began to look at the clothes from a materialistic perspective. Seeing the clothing in terms of its fabric and stitch, rather than a garment of wear. All this will help me in my generation of ideas toward my FMP work. 

We also all had fun recreating prom night with elaborate dresses in the changing rooms! (Also, if you're wondering why my model Suzie has a plaster on her belly, its because we popped into a piercing shop- besides, what would a Brighton trip be without doing something so out of the ordinary and spontaneously creative!)

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Pop's 20 greatest female artists

Pop’s 20 greatest female artists

Pop’s 20 greatest female artists 1. The Spice Girls. For one innocent moment in the 90s, Scary, Sporty, Baby, Ginger & Posh became the archetypes of a new kind of girl power, combining the cartoonish sexuality of teen pop culture with a post-feminist ladette sense of the supremacy of sisterhood. Then we got to know them better, and the bubble burst. 2. Chrissie Hynde. The ultimate rock chick,…

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Melanie C: ‘People think I’m mouthy, but I’m really quiet and gentle’

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This time last year, Mel C became once bouncing all around the UK’s football stadiums, bringing the Spice Ladies abet to existence for a celebratory toddle by their biggest hits and craziest outfits.

Then, as soon as she stepped off the stage with Geri, Emma and Mel B at Wembley, she jetted off on a world tour of Satisfaction events with LGBTQ collective Sink The Purple.

And once that wrapped up, she went straight into the studio to work on her eighth solo album, and saved going till lockdown hit.

“Even as you evaluate my 2019 to my 2020, which that you just would possibly not compile extra varied,” she says.

“, I became once travelling one day of the arena, I became once having fun with stadiums with the Spice Ladies, and now I’m barely ever out of my pyjamas.”

This day is now not plenty of days. The singer joins us from her home in Hampstead, North London, surrounded by scatter cushions, hair scraped abet to show her earbuds, and wearing a sublime, marble-enact t-shirt.

“Or now not it is one more day in Zoom-land,” she sighs. “Oh my God, I’m so over it.”

Her Zoom ID, incidentally, is now not Sporty Spice or Mel C or Melanie Jayne Chisholm. It will not be even Melanie C, as she kinds herself today time. As a change she’s caught with Scarlett, her 11-year-old daughter’s title.

“Agh! I even need to alternate it abet every time I originate something,” she laughs. “I originate now not know how you compile it to stay.”

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Image caption The singer has launched seven solo albums

Devour many families, they’ve struggled with home school for the length of the quarantine. Chisholm confesses they’ve managed “the bare minimal”.

“I loathe it,” she says. “My itsy-bitsy woman’s pretty heavenly nonetheless she excellent can’t be bothered.

“And , someone said pretty early on on this total thing: ‘Concentrate on how sophisticated it is, as an adult to encourage your self at home – so accept as true with being a kid.’

“After that I believed, ‘OK, that is ethical. So long as she’s doing something, it be better than nothing.'”

It became once handiest when school resumed on a restricted basis at the close of June that Chisholm totally understood how lockdown had affected her daughter.

“She purchased so touchy and uninspired. It became once laborious even to encourage her to scurry and have a run, which is so out of persona,” she says.

“When they’d the opportunity to return… having a routine, socialising with her chums, I purchased my itsy-bitsy woman abet.”

‘Evil one at the abet’

It would possibly perchance possibly appear savor a trite comparison, nonetheless rediscovering your self after a interval within the emotional wasteland is the theme of Chisholm’s new album.

The 46-year-old has always sung about her issues with self-acceptance, from the title observe of her 1999 solo debut Northern Star to her 2017 album Version Of Me. This time, though, there’s a newfound power and compile to the underside of.

“Once I survey within the replicate, I finally savor who I peek,” she declares on the gap observe, Who I Am. Over the next 35 minutes, she sings about letting scurry of old dangle-ups, having nothing left to camouflage and refusing to conform to expectations. “I originate now not are looking out out for to be your acceptable version of me,” goes the refrain of roller-disco jam Overload.

Her struggles with despair and eating complications are well-documented. They started within the course of the Spice Ladies’ thoughts-boggling toddle of chart and media dominance within the stupid 90s. The band supplied 31 million files, scored nine #1 singles and upended song alternate conventions relating to the viability of woman bands.

Merseyside-born Chisholm became once the handiest dancer and strongest singer, nonetheless she became once caricatured within the tabloid press as “the undeniable one at the abet, who doesn’t truly originate worthy”.

She didn’t recognise the particular particular person that became once being portrayed within the media, amplifying her feelings of inadequacy.

“Because I had this tomboy whisper and I cherished my football, people thought I became once a itsy-bitsy mouthy, a itsy-bitsy loud, fragment of that ladette culture.

“And, , I’m truly pretty composed, and I’m truly soft. That became once laborious for me for about a years. I came all over it truly confusing.”

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Image caption The Spice Ladies in 1997: Mel C, Geri Horner, Victoria Beckham, Emma Bunton and Mel B

Her avenue to recovery started with remedy for scientific despair within the early 2000s. The advent of her daughter in 2009 moreover marked a turning point.

“Being a mum became once so liberating on legend of for the predominant time in my adult existence, it wasn’t all about me,” she says. “It made me now not handiest realise I had a large responsibility to her nonetheless I in point of fact have a large responsibility to myself. In being her trainer, I needed to treat myself better.”

However the care-free positivity of the brand new album can truly be attributed to re-connecting with the Spice Ladies last year. Though the band had reunited sooner than, in 2007, Chisholm wanted to be convinced to originate it. This time around, every thing felt varied.

“Being on stage with the girls made me truly feel so buoyant and so determined. We didn’t truly compile the total legacy and the impact till last year.

“And then doing Satisfaction one day of the arena, it became once this kind of joyous year of finding the self-acceptance I would always been shopping for.

“I spent a few years having so worthy feel sorry about relating to the non-public issues I had with despair and eating complications and I excellent thought, originate what? In space of being ashamed of that time and seeing it as a failure, I believe it be time yelp: ‘I became once there and I purchased myself by it and right here I am to say the account’.”

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Image caption The Spice World tour won rave evaluations, despite initial sound complications in Dublin and Cardiff

Chisholm’s new-came all over self assurance moreover rekindled her ambition. She says she’s been inspired to “scurry better” with this album, embracing the pop sensibility that she’d been “barely bit embarrassed” about in her 20s and 30s.

“Working with the girls last year reminded me of this total world,” she says. “We were so fortunate to have this global charm and I would get to tour all these locations all once more.”

She’s chosen her collaborators fastidiously, working predominantly with female artists on the frosty, credible fringes of British pop – the likes of Shura, Rae Morris and dirt large title Nadia Rose.

All of them are younger sufficient to were first-wave Spice Ladies fans, which precipitated about a awkward moments within the studio.

“There became once a host of, ‘Let me excellent compile my fangirling out of the ability after which we are in a position to compile all of the device down to alternate,'” the singer smiles, stressing that she can get “apprehensive the total time,” too.

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Image caption In the studio with the Spice Ladies in 1998

Working with Rose became once a highlight. They crooked up after one of Chisholm’s DJ sets and got right here up with the concept for his or her duet, Daring, on a automobile drag.

“We started talking about being a girl within the song alternate, pursuing your dreams, and how petrifying so many things are, whether or now not it be turning as a lot as anyone’s condo you’ve got gotten under no conditions met to originate a writing session, or going out on stage in entrance of hundreds of people.

“And I said, ‘, you wish to be mettlesome,’ and we excellent felt savor that became once this kind of stupendous thing – to study out and empower [our fans] to originate, on legend of we would both came all around the ability to be mettlesome now and then.”

For her fragment, Rose can’t pretty think relating to the song exists.

“As an enormous Spice Ladies fan, savor a enormous Spice Ladies fan, that is now not going to ever in point of fact register as accurate to me,” she says, “as worthy as it has happened, and it is accurate.”

“However it became once an wonderful experience and he or she is so frosty.”

But every other Spice Ladies tour?

Free up plans for the album were thrown off-route by the lockdown – nonetheless Chisholm presented the document’s completion last week with the originate of In And Out Of Devour, a lightwave beam of pure disco.

The video became once shot in a abandoned Alexandra Palace three weeks within the past, with the huge title sharing a socially-distanced dancefloor with likely the most crew from the Spice Ladies tour.

It became once a reduction, she says, to be doing something out of doorways the condo.

“I loathe movies in most cases. They’re so bloody wearisome and exhausting. However this one became once pretty magical, I believe maybe on legend of it wasn’t in my living room on Zoom.”

Attentive listeners will hear nods to Rozalla’s 90s dance traditional Each person’s Free (To Feel Factual) apart from as Dua Lipa’s retro-pop anthem Invent now not Originate Now – nonetheless Chisholm knows it can even be laborious to compete within the brand new pop landscape.

“Obviously, I’m making a pop-dance document and I’m a dilapidated artist, so I even need to settle for that some radio stations are now not going to be having fun with me anymore. That’s something to beat.

“However I favor people to experience this album, I favor people to bounce to it, I favor people to be empowered by it. And when coronavirus has in the end completed one, I are looking out out for to compile obtainable and compose it are living.”

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Image caption The singer has a tour planned for 2021, lockdown measures allowing

She’s moreover starting up to 1 more Spice Ladies tour, announcing the band are “talking about it always”, although fans need to not encourage their breath.

“Belief me, it be a miracle we ever originate anything, on legend of we’re now not seemingly,” she says, “nonetheless when we originate, it be savor the stars align and magic happens”.

There are ethical reasons to position the band abet together, too. No longer least on legend of Five became Four for last year’s reveals.

“No longer having Victoria on stage last year, , it became once bittersweet,” she says. “The reveals were extraordinary nonetheless there became once someone lacking.”

Apart from, the band realised too stupid they ought to composed have filmed the 2019 tour for posterity.

“We shied a long way off from having a DVD, on legend of people got right here from one day of the arena and they also saved and they also spent all this money to study us, so there’s fragment of you that wants it to be a varied experience, this magical moment in time.

“However so many folk were upset about it – and we are too, in point of fact, on legend of it can even be shapely excellent to survey abet and experience it one day of all once more.

“So with any luck, if we compile our act together, we’ll compose all over all once more to compile up there and compile it recorded effectively.”

Melanie C’s self-titled album is out on 2 October.

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Melanie C says her public image doesn't align with her real-life self

The 46-year-old pop star believes she's been seen as a symbol of "ladette culture" since the 90s, but in reality, Melanie source https://www.music-news.com/news/UK/133386/Melanie-C-says-her-public-image-doesn-t-align-with-her-real-life-self

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Zoe Ball profile: 'I feel a crazy mix of elation and wanting to run away'

When Zoe Ball was umming and aahing about whether to take the Radio 2 breakfast show gig 18 years after leaving the Radio 1 equivalent, her son Woody (not around last time) played a part in persuading her.

“He said ‘Mum, come on, don’t even think about it, it’s like the coolest thing you can do’,” Ball told Chris Evans, whose show she is taking over. “‘Be the first girl on Radio 2 breakfast, it’s amazing’. And he went ‘And Mum’ – and he looked into my eyes and he held my hand – ‘someone will listen’.”

It wasn’t 100% encouragement at home. Ball asked Nelly, her eight-year-old daughter who listens to Greg James on Radio 1 in the morning, if she would be making the switch. “And she went ‘I’ll probably listen to Greg but if he plays a bad record Mummy I might listen to you, just to see if you’re all right’.”

Ball was good to James the night before his first breakfast show. “We got to know each other quite well over our respective Sport Relief challenges,” he says. “To the point where the night before my first day on breakfast we had a really lovely phone chat where she calmed me down and wished me so much luck and said Nelly will be listening, you’ll be great and then Nell screamed ‘good luck!’”.

James thinks she will do well. “She’s an incredibly warm personality, and that’s something you really can’t manufacture, you can’t fake that on the radio. There’s a lot of people that can fake warmth on TV, but on the radio you’re just so exposed, listeners can call you out on it quite quickly.”

But now they’re going to be rivals? “I think there’s a nice comedy rivalry between Radios 1 and 2,” he says. “ I see Radio 2 as a slightly fusty older relative who still listens to lots of Tears For Fears, that’s what we like to paint it as.” Though under Ball it might be less fusty, less uncle-y.

Ball’s life has been one of massive highs and lows. Born in Blackpool, she grew up in Buckinghamshire, her dad is Johnny “Think of a Number” Ball, a TV personality in the 1970s and 1980s, who told Radio 4 listeners this week how proud he was of his girl. Her early TV presenting jobs included Channel 4’s The Big Breakfast and the BBC1 Saturday morning TV show Live and Kicking, which is where a young James first became aware of her. “It was really one of the first shows that I watched and thought wouldn’t it be fun to work on TV one day and from there I discovered radio and that was really my way into this stuff,” he says.

Zoe Ball with Norman Cook in 2000. Photograph: John Stillwell/PA

Ball didn’t just arrive at Radio 1 in 1997 as the first female host of the breakfast show. She burst through the door, surfing in on a euphoric wave of 90s culture – Britpop and New Labour, optimism and ladettism, and all the excesses that went with it. If one picture captures that time it’s one of her wearing a cowboy hat, with a fag and a bottle of Jack Daniels, stumbling towards her own wedding ceremony, with Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim.

Ball encapsulated that time, but not just because of the excess and wheyhey Cool Britannia; but also more interestingly and creatively, thinks Richard Benson, a writer who was editor of The Face in the late 90s.

“Zoe represented that phenomenon in the 90s when you’ve got that blurring of what used to be called underground culture and mainstream culture,” he says. “From indie rock to superclubs to fashion going a bit high street, there was this thing where mainstream suddenly had access to alternative culture. A lot of creativity came from fusing things that had been separate before. It’s people who knew how to negotiate those hybrids who did well out of the 90s. She was very good because she had that openness to bring people together around her and make them feel at ease.”

But Ball was also caning it, going on air drunk or hungover, and her bosses were worried about her. She quit, disappeared, had a family, left Cook briefly for another DJ, came back, went to rehab, went on Strictly Come Dancing, began to present its sister show It Takes Two, which she still does and hopes to continue.

Marriage to Cook ended in 2016. Ball began a relationship with Billy Yates, a BBC cameraman. She had a Saturday afternoon slot on Radio 2, a new house in the country, things were good, and calm. Then in May last year, after a long struggle with depression, Yates killed himself. Ball cycled from Blackpool to Brighton, meeting other victims of suicide and depression, raising awareness. She made a touching documentary about it called Hardest Road Home.

As for her, there were lapses, but this summer she wrote on Instagram thanking her rehab centre. “Two years no booze – through two of the toughest years of my life. I’m not sure I’d have survived intact had it not been for my sobriety.”

Johnny Ball surprises daughter Zoe at the finish line of her BT Sport Relief Challenge: Zoe’s Hardest Road Home. Photograph: Victoria Dawe

Now, in January, comes another new – and very early – start: waking up with 9 million or so people, but with a clear head. “Zoe will bring her natural effervescence and energy to help set up the audience for their day,” says Lewis Carnie, boss of Radio 2. While he is proud that the Radio 2 breakfast show will be hosted by women 52 weeks a year (Sara Cox will do it for the 10 weeks Zoe takes leave), “the most important thing was to get the right person for the job, which we have done��.

Ball is not going to be paid the same as her male predecessor, Evans, who got £1.6m a year from the BBC and is now off to Virgin. Her salary will be made public in the annual BBC pay disclosures next year, but she has said she was happy with it.

On air, she told Evans she was “a crazy mix of elation, wanting to burst into tears, thinking of running away, everything, but mainly thrilled”. Even if her daughter won’t be listening. Unless James plays a bad record on the other side.

Born 23 November 1970

Age 47

Career TV jobs include The Big Breakfast, Live and Kicking, Top of the Pops, and more recently Strictly Come Dancing and It Takes Two. She has hosted shows on BBC Radio 1 and 2.

High point Becoming the first woman to host the Radio 1 breakfast show in 1997

Low point The death of her partner Billy Yates, who took his own life in May 2017

What she says “I can’t really remember. It was the 1990.”

What they say “It’s just her career and it’s wonderful. When I listen to the radio, it’s Radio 4.” Johnny Ball, father, 2018

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/oct/05/zoe-ball-profile-i-feel-a-crazy-mix-of-elation-and-wanting-to-run-away

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Director of Photography - Adam Singodia Sound Recordist - Michael Chubb Costume Designer - Lois Tagg Make-Up Artist - Shauna Taggart Stills Photography - Sam Rockman Editor - Lindsey Woodward Composer - Hollie Buhagiar Sound Designer - Michael Chubb Casting - Hammond Cox Casting Directed, Written and Produced by Will Nash Produced by Daniel Hammersley Produced by Hold Your Fire Cast Lady - Amy Doyle Derek - Matthew Castle Synopsis - Lady lives in South East London and isn't afraid to do her own thing. A fan of the 'ladette culture' from the 90's, Lady tells us why it was so great, why it's still acceptable for it to carry on and still have a balanced playing field between men and women. #Super8 #internationalwomensday #ladette Click here for more films: http://bit.ly/2CqnPtr Any queries, please contact us at: harold.shiel@littledotstudios.com by Tall Tales

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im forever happy that i never got emotionally invested in glee because i tried to watch it a few times, but i just HATED it. i saw the first 2 episodes and then the rocky horror one and that’s it

idk, i tried to watch it to fit in w the thtr ppl at my high school but i never got into it but i was a glee hater and not into it. i remember seeing the ppl in it in magazines n shit and they seemed chill but eh

idk, in high school i got into himym (unfortunately, although marshall and lily were a gr8 couple, everyone else was shitty. robin should’ve been a lesbian and not a ladette...fuck ted n fuck barney tho)

idk himym has had some impact on our culture, but it’s like...been forgotten because the last season sucked because of what they did w the mom and they had a weird east asian stereotype episode, but i think some things have lingered (i.e. gifs of marshall and barney mostly and the “legendary”)

anyways, in high school in terms of tv i was into cartoons (mostly danny phantom, but also gravity falls, 90s stuff, and i forget everything else...i didn’t really get into steven universe until before i left for uni), himym, supernatural (i stopped watching because tuesday was d&d night and also i was peeved w the state of the show after season 5 but esp season 8 n 9 peeved me...i have seen scooby natural tho), um...what else? community...although after season 3 sucks lbr and i think that’s it.

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Spur of the moment: why cowboy boots are back in fashion | Fashion

It’s not just their cuban heels that are heavy: cowboy boots are freighted with associations. They are James Dean in Giant, reclining under a hazy Texan sky, Robert Redford haloed by a cloud of dust in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and Patricia Arquette in the highway phone booth in True Romance. They are a presage to violence in No Country for Old Men. In western showdowns, the camera zooms in on them. They epitomise the wild wild west, a dangerous place of sharpshooters and outlaws.

They can be kitsch – Dolly Parton’s are pastel-hued and decorated with flowers – or political, worn by Ronald Reagan on the campaign trail and are collected by Arnold Schwarzenegger as a symbol of his allegiance to the US. They represent American pride, the horrors of US history, and the worst of the US present: in October, a pair of cowboy boots decorated with stars and stripes, which had been abandoned by survivor Stephen Vicelja, became a symbol of the Las Vegas massacre.

Patricia Arquette and Christian Slater in True Romance. Photograph: Allstar/Warner Bros

They are a potent – and complicated – emblem of America, resonating just as the meaning of “the United States” is more complex than ever. There is a chance that you will be wearing a pair in 2018 – yes, even you, style lone ranger. Because I have seen the future of fashion – on the spring/summer catwalks, on the feet of early adopters – and it has spurs on its heels.

The return of cowboy boots started, strangely, at Hood by Air last September, when the streetwear brand sent some surreal iterations down its catwalk. These appeared to face the back and the front simultaneously and they didn’t take off, even in the age of doublethink. They did spawn a thousand memes, however, and a seed was planted. Two of the fashion industry’s most influential designers – Raf Simons at Calvin Klein and Phoebe Philo at Céline – saddled up to the trend.

James Dean in Giant. Photograph: Allstar/Warner Bros

Raf Simons’ cowboy boots are part of an exploration of the dark side of Americana. As Alistair O’Neill, professor of fashion history and theory at Central Saint Martins, points out, Simons’ work references Richard Prince’s art, which reworks the Marlboro Man advertisements, and is no wholesome stars-and-stripes celebration. “It is a representation of the American man that was about individuality and a sense of adventure, a dream which is hollow, essentially,” he says. Simons’ spring/summer 2018 collection was genuinely scary – inspired by horror films – and the boots’ points peeked out from beneath satin trousers or were covered in blood-like splatters.

At Maison Margiela, they were deconstructed, as though the boot’s shaft had been torn off, and accessorised with delicate diamante spurs. Givenchy’s new designer, Clare Waight Keller, put them on models and wore a black shiny pair herself. Even when designers didn’t show cowboy boots exactly, they showed cowboy-ish boots: stompers with decorative wing tips and gleaming toe caps at Marques Almeida; cutout versions comprising different coloured sections of leather at Acne Studios; sparkly and metallic interpretations at Coach; sturdy versions with buckles and straps at Chloé. All had a cuban heel, upturned sole and an elongated yee-haw toe.

Givenchy’s new designer Clare Waight Keller on the catwalk at Paris fashion week in October 2017. Photograph: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

The cowboy boot is the ultimate marriage of functionality and dandification, says Tony Glenville, creative director of the school of media and communication at the London College of Fashion. “They became longer up the leg to protect rider’s ankles; they had that funny angled heel for riding a horse or striding on uneven terrain,” he says. “But they became pretty quite early on. Even in the 1900s, you see them becoming decorative, more of a trophy item, with embroidery and the use of complicated skins.”

City slickers have worn them for decades, with their popularity often surging at times when they have featured on the silver screen, according to O’Neill. They were part of “the post-hippy aesthetic” of London in the 70s, when influential Hollywood films referencing 50s Americana – American Graffiti and Badlands – were released.

Calvin Klein, autumn/winter 2017, at New York fashion week. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock

In womenswear, the look has often been more upbeat, even camp. A key reference, says O’Neill, is Thierry Mugler’s western-themed spring/summer 1992 collection, in which Ivanka Trump appeared on the catwalk – proving that you are never more than two fashion references away from the Donald – resplendent in cow print. At around the same time, Patricia Arquette’s Alabama Whitman wore bright blue cowboy boots with a turquoise bra in True Romance. In the late 90s, Miuccia Prada did cowboy boots at Miu Miu. By 2000, the look was still going strong – Madonna was in her Stetson period and the ladettes were on board. Cowboy boots suggested “being a free wheeler, an idea that you are someone who is thinking about the prairie when actually pounding the pavement – positioning yourself elsewhere,” says O’Neill. “A look that came before festival chic.”

Kylie Minogue on the January 2002 cover of The Face.

Anyone who came of age in the 90s or the 00s may remember cowboy boots as a counterpoint to female nudity – a sort of sexy wild west aesthetic seen on Britney Spears, who wore hers with a bikini, or Victoria Beckham, who wore them with hair extensions and hotpants, or Kylie Minogue, in pink patterned knickers with a tan pair on a cover of the Face.

This time the approach is a lot more covered-up – think of street-style star Veronika Heilbrunner, who pairs black cowboy-style ankle boots with flowing skirts, or the vintage photograph of Julia Roberts in black cowboy boots, ripped blue jeans and a polo neck.

In the post-Stan Smiths era, their practical appeal is pretty simple: you can walk in them without wobbling, and they ground a frilly dress like a full stop. Conceptually, however, things are a lot more complicated. But isn’t everything these days?

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