#Michael Costiff

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Boy George at Club Kinky Gerlinky photo by Michael Costiff, 1980

[the-black-mask]

P O R N O G R A P H Y

The Cure

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Photos: Michael Costiff

Hanging Garden video: Chris Gabrin

[avvattev]

The Aghata Bag av vattev SUPERCULTURE Collection AW24 x Michael Costiff

[thechemistryset]

Jordan, 1980s

(Photograph: Michael Costiff)

[jiiakuann]

illustration for L'Officiel Hommes China June 2017 articulate in celebration of playful fashion portraits of Rei Kawakubo, Yayoi Kusama, Cozette McCreery & Sid Bryan, Bill Conningham, Walter van Beirendonck, Henrik Vibskov, Bobby Abley, Anna Piaggi, Jeremy Scott, Jean Paul Gaultier and Iris Apfel

[dynamoe]

even Boy George likes a bit of pastry.

Night out with Boy George, 1980 Photo: Michael Costiff

[artfashionbooks]

Night Fever. Designing Club Culture 1960 – Today

Night Fever opens with the 1960s, exploring the emergence of nightclubs as spaces for experimentation with interior design, new media, and alternative lifestyles. The Electric Circus (1967) in New York, for example, was designed as a countercultural venue by architect Charles Forberg while graphic designers Chermayeff & Geismar created its distinctive logo and font. Its multidisciplinary approach influenced many clubs in Europe, including Space Electronic (1969) in Florence. Designed by the collective Gruppo 9999, this was one of several nightclubs associated with Italy’s Radical Design avant-garde. The same goes for Piper in Turin (1966), a club designed by Giorgio Ceretti, Pietro Derossi, and Riccardo Rosso as a multifunctional space with a modular interior suitable for concerts, happenings, and experimental theatre as well as dancing. Gruppo UFO’s Bamba Issa (1969), a beach club in Forte dei Marmi, was another highly histrionic venue, its themed interior completely overhauled for every summer of its three years of existence.

With the rise of disco in the 1970s, club culture gained a new momentum. Dance music developed into a genre of its own and the dance floor emerged as a stage for individual and collective performance, with fashion designers such as Halston and Stephen Burrows providing the perfect outfits to perform and shine. New York’s Studio 54, founded by Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell in 1977 and designed by Scott Bromley and Ron Doud, soon became a celebrity favourite. Only two years later, the movie »Saturday Night Fever« marked the apex of Disco’s commercialisation, which in turn sparked a backlash with homophobic and racist overtones that peaked at the Disco Demolition Night staged at a baseball stadium in Chicago.

Around the same time, places in New York’s thriving nightlife like the Mudd Club (1978) and Area (1983) offered artists new spaces to merge the club scene and the arts and launched the careers of artists like Keith Haring und Jean-Michel Basquiat. In early 1980s London, meanwhile, clubs like Blitz and Taboo brought forth the New Romantic music and fashion movement, with wild child Vivienne Westwood a frequent guest at Michael and Gerlinde Costiff’s »Kinky Gerlinky« clubnight. But it was in Manchester that architect and designer Ben Kelly created the post-industrial cathedral of rave, The Haçienda (1982), from where Acid House conquered the UK. House and Techno were arguably the last great dance music movements to define a generation of clubs and ravers. They reached Berlin in the early 1990s just after the fall of the wall, when disused and derelict spaces became available for clubs like Tresor (1991); more than a decade later, the notorious Berghain (2004) was established in a former heating plant, demonstrating yet again how a vibrant club scene can flourish in the cracks of the urban fabric, on empty lots and in vacant buildings.

[duggiefields]

#DOVER STREET MARKET #2008 with #Sebastian Horsley, #Andrew Logan and #Michael Costiff for #CommeDesGarconsHommePlus https://www.instagram.com/p/CEjFsJTl2ru/?igshid=1uu7xpxadq8br

[gydesigns]

London Fetishwear Meets Ethiopian Punk: Louis Vuitton S/S17

Punk Fetishwear It’s easy to transform Louis Vuitton into fetishwear – there’s something about applying a luxury monogram to a wallet or handbag and suddenly, as Vuitton creative consultant and stylist Alister Mackie noted, “you gotta have it.” (“I did say that, actually,” laughs Jones, “the minute I saw that wallet I was like ‘I’m having one of those, get a new one for the show’.”) Within the collection, there were the obvious allusions to that aesthetic: the rubber coats that looked like spun silk, stamped with LV, the bike-lock necklaces with the combination of 1854, the aforementioned dog collars, and barbells hanging from shirt collars, but there was also the emphatic reference to that particular era of Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren that Jones obsessively collects, that era that celebrated inflammatory glitter glue slogans and, as Michael Costiff remembers, “brought clothes that were about sex to the street”.

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BOY GEORGE BY MICHAEL COSTIFF

[cultural-engineer]

Beyond "There's always a black issue Dear' from claire lawrie on Vimeo.

Spread the Word this is a grassroots project you are the distributor!. Please visit beyondtheresalwaysablackissuedear.com For more info on screenings and on the cast. The film explores and celebrates black LGBT identities. Demarcating the particular influence that Black LGBT culture has had upon Fashion, Fine art, Dance, Music and Language, much of which has been appropriated by the cultural mainstream. The cast vividly recall daring to be different. Ballet dancing boys, and make-up wearing, gender-fluid school days, are described with humour and honesty. Their experiences shed new light on the UK in the 1970s/80s. Creating their own identities in a time when, ‘if you were black you could be either Reggae or Soul’, these are the untold stories where 1970s, Soul, Disco, Punks and Blitz Kids met in underground clubs, like The Four Aces in Dalston and Crackers in Soho. Beyond captures a vital historical period, moving through the 70s, 80s and early 90s into the explosion of queer culture at Taboo. With a score by Dennis Bovell and Robb Scott. Through her close friendships with the cast Claire Lawrie captures the recollections of an amazing cast. Here are the Trailblazers! Cast: Andy Polaris, Frank Akinsete, Ken Davis, Kenny Campbell, Lanah P, Les Child, Nicky Green, Roy Brown, Winn Austin. Archive footage: Body Map, Dave Swindells, Derek Ridgers, Devon Buchanon, Dick Jewell, John Maybury, Kino Library, Nicola Tyson, Michael Costiff, Pam Hogg.

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【STYLING】

WORLD logo hoodie “90's WORLD by @michaelcostiff ”

Check Kilt Skirt “Vintage”

Guevara shoulder Bag “WORLDarchive by Michael costiff”

Shoes “Danner”

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[clotair]

At Warren Street, Christine Binnie, Leslie Chilkes And David Holah. All Wearing David Holad Designs, 1980

Michael Costiff

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Leigh Bowery photographed by Michael Costiff

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【STYLING】

See-throw L/S tops “Jean Paul Gaultier objet”

Beijing Printed Tshirt “WORLDarchive by Michael Costiff”

Pearl Camouflage Vest “JUNYA WATANABE”

Wide Work Trousers “COMMEdesGARCONS HOMME PLUS”

Sneaker “adidas”

Rasta strap Belt “Vintage”

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