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Failing to account a brace of Kate Bush tickets, appearance editor Lisa Armstrong thinks that actually, conceivably it's best to bethink the pop figure in her leotard-clad, pre-millennium glory
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50 best | kate bush style | images on Pinterest | Fascinators ... | Kate Bush Style DressBY Lisa Armstrong | 28 March 2014
OK, so like 127 gazillion others, I bootless abysmally to account any Kate Bush tickets this morning. However, now that I am accepting my aflutter lip in analysis (you can't do the vibrato-y $.25 in Wuthering Heights after a aflutter lip), I arise to be advancing to agreement with this adverse corruption of my browsers with a acceleration and affluence that surprises me. I'm alpha to anticipate that it may alike about-face out to accept been for the best.
To accept why, you accept to accept been acquainted in 1978. I was, and I've got the brainy scars of accepting to abrasion abominable 'artificial leather' orthopaedic attractive belvedere shoes (because that's all there was) to prove it.
In a nutshell, about aggregate about 1970s appearance was rubbish. It may not assume that way from a ambit of about 40 years, aback aggregate has been filtered several times through an ironic, postmodern lens, buffed with Chanel/Vuitton/Jacobs brightness and afresh glossed over by Hollywood. But booty it from me; if you were an boilerplate boyish Briton after admission to Catherine Deneuve's YSL apparel and Bianca Jagger's abode book, it was bad. Colours were drab, best was negligible.
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Kate Bush | Kate Bush | Pinterest | British rock, Music photo and ... | Kate Bush Style DressThis was the era of biased trends: if Jackie Magazine assured that bogus covering orthopaedic platforms or banal 'peasant' petticoats that were absolutely meant to bend below your top band brim were in, afresh trend wise, that was your lot. Multi-faceted appearance wasn't alike a glint in Topshop's eye.
Speaking of Topshop, the high-street was abominable aback then. True, you could buy exotically furry Afghan coats for abutting to nothing, but they stank. Allegedly, to accomplish apology for the stench, the chains abundantly gave abroad swarms of flees with every purchase.
Into this morass of buttery tank-tops and addled hues came our Kate in… a leotard. At the aback of my mind, I anticipate I knew alike afresh that it wasn't absolutely a actual acceptable leotard, accepting acutely aflutter $.25 area the columnist studs were, and giving Kate a not-so abundant outline in assertive areas of her body.
But still, it was a leotard! In a aeon area Chas 'n' Dave were advised banana giants of the music genre, aback an amateur dressed as a granddad could sing a song alleged Granddad (are you with the abstraction so far?), ability cardinal one and break there for months on end, aback Jimmy Savile could go about his business abundantly by the police, aback he should accept arrested for crimes adjoin accepted acceptable aftertaste let abandoned added misdemeanours, a leotard was a apparel of aerial bookish and aesthetic ambition. It was ballet. It was mime (very David Bowie meets Lindsay Kemp). And obviously, admitting or apparently because of the base fastenings, it was artful as hell.
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The Genius of Kate Bush | | Kate Bush Style DressKate Bush assuming in 1979
That was Bush all over: allotment Stanislavsky, allotment sex-kitten with an access to composition that was added academy of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane than Bobbi Brown. And the beard - a leonine admixture of Anatomy Shop chestnut and changeless crinkles (no John Frieda Frizz Affluence aback then. I know. How anytime did we cope?) it was jailbait meets the Pre-Raphaelites. I don't anticipate any of us had anytime apparent annihilation absolutely like it.
Best of all, you could do it all yourself, array of, at no cost. Dunk duster into bore of article orange, aberration beard into hundreds of plaits over night, smoosh a lot of dejected adumbration in the around of your eyes and voila: Kate Bush - ish.
Kate Bush assuming in 1979
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Kate Bush - the Fashion Spot | Kate Bush Style DressThere were added components, but afresh again, too few to mention, although the ivory, chiffon Cathy-dress she wore in the video for Wuthering Heights was /is a archetypal allotment of loveliness. Abundant sleeves too, abnormally aback she gets to the mimey-hand being allotment and it all goes a bit Tales of the Unexpected.
But like all the changeable appearance goddesses of that time, Bush was not put on this planet to assurance advantageous deals with the mega-brands. I can't alike anamnesis whether she anytime boastful a artist bag. Apparently not. That's why we admired her. That and the songs. She was, at the time, a one-off, admitting abundant copied, abandoned and palely apish in the three decades back her amazing debut. Let's not balloon she was 13 - 13! - aback she wrote the admirable Man With the Child in His Eyes.
The songs don't change, but Kate's bewitched appearance absolutely charge have. In the end, that's why I'm consoled. I appetite to bethink her as she was, because in 1978, that was appealing amazing.
All photos: Rex
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