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ALLACCESS-MOODBOARD FLORENCIA MANGINI GAYE ADVERT, ORIGINAL 1977 PULL-OUT POSTER FROM RECORD MIRROR I usually work searching references and inspiration for whatever work related with fashion or style I’m into. I found Gaye while I was exploring English female punk rockers. When this image appeared I could not believe her style and pose in front of the camera. I took a look at the videos of The Adverts and she was very low-profile, she used to play bass. Black hair & eyeliner & nail polish, pale skin, motorcycle jacket and jeans. She was a complete fashion icon, her face is amazing, she looks pretty strong in the photos but if you listen to her she has a sweet, feminine voice. This old poster shows her awesome rock presence.

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ALLACCESS-MOODBOARD PHIL KING THE DAMNED AT THE ROXY, LONDON, 1977. PHOTO © DEREK RIDGERS Taken from Derek’s excellent recently published book Punk London 1977. Derek is famous for his street and club portraiture – and as a NME photographer during the ’80s and ’90s. At this time Derek was working in advertising and took photos in his spare time as a hobby. I love the snarl on David Vanian’s face, baring his canines. I like to think that the guy on the left, like the other older man on the opposite side of the stage also in a leather jacket, is the stage security, but photographer Derek told me that they were just friends of the band who stepped in to help.

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ALLACCESS-MOODBOARD NICOLO CERIONI THE SEX BOOK, MADONNA. PHOTO © STEVEN MEISEL This book came out in 1992, stirring much controversy. Meisel and Madonna, both at the peak of their careers, joined forces to create a risky book, provocative, strong, extreme. In my opinion, the book is one of the many examples of Madonna’s audacity and deep artistic sensitivity. No other singer would have done anything like that, it would have wrecked anyone’s career. Sex here is used as a form of provocation, as liberation, a post-feminist sexuality in which woman dominates yet is subjugated, an ambiguous sexuality at a time when talking about homosexuality was quite a different thing than today, HIV was spreading; in the book sex is seen as pleasure and pain, delight and martyrdom. What fascinates me about Madonna is that she is always suspended between strength and provocation, intuition and culture, matter and spirit. Meisel is in a real state of grace in this book.

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ALLACCESS-MOODBOARD VUVUVULTURES MICK JONES AND PAUL SIMONON (THE CLASH), 1977. PHOTO © SYD SHELTON We found this poster in our hallway when we first moved to London. Almost didn’t recognise The Clash members because of their mental shirts in this picture! They also look mildly insane which is nice. Had it in our band room ever since we started so it will always remind us of late nights in a dirty London room, freezing cold, drinking beer, eating pizza and making music together. (and trying not to get electrocuted or blow anything up). / VVV

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ALLACCESS-MOODBOARD CECILIA IBANEZ LUCA PRODAN (SUMO). PHOTO © EDUARDO REY Luca was the frontman of one of Argentina’s biggest bands, Sumo. Born in Rome into an aristocratic family, he attended the same school as Prince Charles. He also spent some time in prison, and went to Argentina to run away from heroin. He died in 1987 when he was 34 and by that time he had replaced heroin with Ginebra. Sumo kicked ass. I would stick Luca and Sumo’s pictures on my exercise book in school, I was a real fan. Every time I go back to Buenos Aires and see someone wearing their t-shirt I feel at home.

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ALLACCESS-MOODBOARD FLORENCIA MANGINI PJ HARVEY, LOS ANGELES, 2004. PHOTO © VALERIE PHILLIPS I love this picture ‘cause it symbolizes my beginnings, working for fashion magazines. It was at the end of the 90s. No internet, no media going on about underground fashion in Buenos Aires, my city. But I started working for a big publishing house that used to receive all the magazines from around the world. No one paid attention to iD or The Face from the London scene, those where my faves at that time so I could read them pretty regularly. Always a fan of music, we used to mix fashion and rock all the time. The Nineties music scene was the last that produced authentically unique expressions. Nirvana, Pulp, Blur, Oasis, Stone Temple Pilots, Beastie Boys, it was commercial music but of good quality. PJ was among them, she had that dark, rough sexy starlet image. I love the colors in the photo.

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ALLACCESS-MOODBOARD NICOLO FORTUNI (NINOS DU BRASIL) SS DECONTROL (SSD), 1982. PHOTO © GLEN E. FRIEDMAN Boston. Massachusetts. My favorite hardcore scene ever. Straight-edge extremists with a taste for violence. Hockey sticks, blood, fists and broken teeth were the least common denominator for all the members of the Boston’s Hardcore movement. Due to the violence during shows the pictures that document the existence of this scene are very rare. One of them is the one I chose for you guys. As you can see in the picture the guitar player from SSD, Al Barile, is flying kicking someone from the audience. And probably this was just the beginning of what would become a real brawl. Those days are gone…. but never forgotten.

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ALLACCESS-MOODBOARD NICOLO CERIONI GRACE JONES. PHOTO © JEAN PAUL GOUDE I think Jean Paul Goude is a genius. He is much more than a photographer, much more than an art director. Goude is our own Fontana, he goes beyond the picture, he de-structures it to create a unique work. I love everything about Goude, from his ad campaigns to his editorial pictures, but in this case, since we are dealing with music, I cannot but mention his genius work featuring Grace Jones. I could have chosen a hundred pictures, I chose this one, immortal and iconic.