The Japanese Art Director / Costume Designer / Graphic Designer past away yesterday at an age of 73. Huge inspiration, wish I've gotten to meet her. Read more about her here.

Soundtrack of today (after you've finished with D'Angelo) 

Hey I love the i n t e r n e t. Amazing finding old photos like this one! It's Mary, her sister (i think), Misa who used to kick it with P.Diddy back when he was Puffy, and Faith. Those who hadn't been down with Mary since 1992 (die hard day one) doesn't know what a huge style icon Mary was back then. Her style was razor sharp, always on point, not too much and not too little, the perfect IT. All about how to rock someting, swäg, style - brands or not didn't matter! (I would guess below is around 95.)

This post goes out to my girls from this era! You know who you are! And I'm very stoked at the moment cause I'm meeting some of them next week, in NYC! Cause I'm doing Saturday Night Live, biiitches!!!

We paid a tribute to Janet in the Swedish National Radio: MUSIKGUIDEN med Jenny Seth, were we discussed what the Control album has meant for popmusic and us! Also featured is a bunch of great and brand new songs that all sampled Janet. I think we touched some really interessting topics while we upgrading Janets status the way we think it deserves to be! Go listen (Swedish)!

Starting today, at Albert & Victoria Museum in London, is the exhibition: The House Of Annie Lennox . This 2FACED1 favorite and stylosopher who has been seen on the blog before, is worthy every inch of that exhibition. With Annies's full throttle soul diva voice and songs with melodies to die for, add lyrics with substance, Eurythmics always summed up what great pop music is about and still can be about.

And for the people that got blissed out over GAGA as a man on VMA's, well it's been done before, of course by this Annie, back in 1984 (I still appreciate Gaga did it in the way that more female mainstream acts should stop bother about the good looks all the time...).

A personal note: It could have been my beloved cousin Linda or if it was my neighbour Karin's daddy Bertil who provided me with a copied tape of the REVENGE album (Robyn looks a little bit like Annie on this cover doesn't she?). This is before I've even started school. I remember having mom and dad, who's newer really been into music, playing the tape over and over again in our car. Most magnetic at this point in my young life was Thorn In My Side togheter with Take Your Pain Away. I still know the order of the songs by heart. Once you get quality you never go back lixom.