Strike a Pose

So I went into the newsagents on the way home today and spent some time looking for a certain magazine, I was already embarrassed slightly so when I saw the staff looking at me suspiciously I of course made it look like I was looking at the row of semi-naked women pouting out from the lurid covers of magazines such as 'Front' and 'Nuts' before spotting my target, taking the final copy to the counter and paying for my copy of Vogue... yes you read that right... I bought a copy of Vogue, but don't judge me - Karen Gillan hypnotised me into buying it... that is my excuse and I'm sticking to it!

See what I mean? Those eyes are hypnotic!

Anyway it may surprise anyone who hasn't actually met me that I don't know a heck of a lot about the fashion world but apparently 51 years ago a chance meeting in the Vogue offices between photographer David Bailey and model Jean Shrimpton changed the face of fashion photography forever.

Now I am of course aware of David Bailey (miserable bugger from all accounts!) but will admit that I had not heard of Jean Shrimpton until it was announced earlier this year that our very own Ms Gillan would be playing her in a BBC Four biopic called "We'll Take Manhattan".

And that is what this spread is promoting by getting the real-life Bailey to photograph the pair who are re-enacting his formative years. The article itself is kind of slim (six pages in total including the photos) but it's made me want to see the film that much more as in all honesty I didn't really know what it would be about before this (I didn't even know the film was about David Bailey and Jean Shrimpton as every article I read focussed purely on the Gillan/Shrimpton angle).

No idea of an actual date yet but the article does confirm it will be on BBC Four later this year - so something else to look forward to then.