We are extremely saddened to announce that Steve Strange died at 11.15 local time on Thursday 12th February 2015, in Sharm El Sheik International Hospital, Egypt. Steve died in his sleep, of Heart Failure. Steve's family, band members and friends are all distraught at this sudden news of his untimely death. Steve's family request privacy at this extremely difficult time. Clouds Of Gold, Take Life And Fly
Steves Birth
1977 Moves to London
1979 Starts Billys nightclub
1980 Forms The Blitz Club
1980 Forms Visage
1980 Fade To Grey number 1 in 8 countries around the world
1982 Releases the second Visage
1984 Starts Club For Heroes in Camden Palace London
1984 Releases Visage Beatboy
2013 Releases Hearts and Knives
Steves Birth 28 May 1959
Steve is born in Newbridge, Caerphilly, Wales
Steve Moves to London - 1977
Joins The Photons
1979 Starts Billys nightclub
1980 Forms The Blitz Club
1980 Forms Visage
1980 Fade To Grey number 1 in 8 countries around the world
1982 Releases the second Visage
1984 Starts Club For Heroes in Camden Palace London
1984 Releases Visage Beatboy
2013 Releases Hearts and Knives
News
Three new Visage releasesAutumn 2024
The Wild Life (The Best Of, 1978 To 2015)Dec 09, 2016
For the first time together on one release the career spanning collection from the birth of Visage in 1978 to the final tracks from Steve Strange and Visage before his untimely death in 2015. Tracks featured a collaboration between Polydor (Universal), August Day and the Steve Strange Collective labels. It comes in four main configurations. CD / 2 XLP and Digital release. A limited edition 7 CD, Signature, Postcard and Sticker set is also available.
Formation Of The Steve Strange CollectiveSep 02, 2015
We are pleased to announce the formation of the Steve Strange Collective. The Foundation has been established by the mother and sister of the late Steve Strange and his PA Amanda Lloyd. It also will involve friends and associates of Steve Strange. The aim of the Steve Strange Collective is to promote and celebrate the legacy of Steve Strange and the organisations and causes in which he was involved.
The Steve Strange Collective is currently involved in three projects to honour Steve Strange. Firstly the yearly "New Romantic Festival" to be held annually in Porthcawl, Wales on the birthday of Steve Strange. Secondly the establishment of the Steve Strange Statue Fund to raise the money to place a permanent and lasting monument to Steve Strange. Thirdly, the release of the fifth and final Visage album to be released in November 2015.
Visage to Release Fifth and Final Studio AlbumSep 02, 2015
The fifth and final studio album from 80s New Romantic pioneers Visage will be released in November 2015. It will be entitled “Demons To Diamonds” a name chosen by the family of the late Steve Strange. It will feature the studio songs that Steve Strange was working on with Visage prior to his untimely death which shocked the world in February 2015. The album is launched to coincide with the inaugural “Steve Strange” New Romantic music festival in Porthcawl, Wales. All royalties from the album to be donated to the newly formed Steve Strange Statue fund which will establish a permanent and lasting memorial to Steve Strange and his music, style and fashion legacies.
Steve Strange and Visage began working on their follow up album to 2013 “Hearts and Knives” album in spring 2014. With over 15 songs written and scheduled the band had recorded just over half when Steve sadly died on Febrary 12th 2015. After the shock of losing their leader the band, rather than leave the album uncompleted decided to persevere and complete the album. The album features musical contributions from Mick MacNeil (Simple Minds) and Didier “SpAce” Marouani (“Magic Fly”). The album also features a cover version of the David Bowie song “Loving The Alien”. A limited edition vinyl-only single containing a extended remix of “Lost in Static” from the fourth album and a brand new track is also available now from Control Room Recordings.
Blitz Club
The Blitz Club was founded by Steve Strange and Rusty Egan. Steve was invited to London by Billy Idol. His first job was designing artwork for Malcolm MacClaren and The Sex Pistols. Rusty was the drummer in punk /new wavers 'The Rich Kids'. They met on the Kings Road in 1978. After the Rich Kids disbanded we approached 'Billy's' club and told them "We'lll fill up your club on Tuesday nights!", they said yes. The club became the setting for a mixture of art students and fashion designers and music fans
The Blitz Years
The Blitz Club was already established as an existing bar. Steve and Rusty knew about it and liked it and in 1979 they moved their Tuesday nights there. The mixture of fashion, music and glamour provided a brighter alternative to the bleak streets and grey prospects in 1980s Britain. People often accuse The Blitz of being elitist... they were right...
The Blitz Kids
The Blitz Kids was the name given to the main faces at the club, the original core of what became the New Romantics: Boy George, Marilyn, Perri Lister, Steve Dagger, Iain R Webb, Stephen Jones, Princess Julia, Philip Sallon, Carl Teper, Martin Degville and Robert Elms. Richard James Burgess (who coined the phrase “New Romantic” in an interview) was also a Blitz regular. We suggested he produce a young band called Spandau Ballet. They did their first gigs at The Blitz. "
With the embers of the first wave of punk fast burning out, the art school drop outs and degenerate-Dadaists weren't willing to follow the street punks towards OI! and it's newly planted proletarian roots. The Bowie influenced futurism of Strange and Egan's Blitz club was their new home. Little did they know that their hedonistic, haphazard detournement of past and future aesthetics and hurried forays through their mums makeup boxes was going to create a subcultural blueprint that would reach long into the future.
Who Were The Blitz Kids?
Kim Bowen, Stephen Jones, Dylan Jones, Julia Fodor, Lee Sheldrick, Stephen Linard, George O'Dowd, Andy Polaris, Kim Whitmore, Fiona Dealey, Perri Lister, Iain R Webb, Carl Teper, Judith Frankland, Theresa Thurmer, Michelle Clapton, Richard Ostell, Clare Thom, Greg Davis, Caryn Franklin, Eric and David Holah, John Maybury, Cerith Wyn Evans, Willy Brown, Christos Tolera, Grayson Perry, Sade Adu, Darla-Jane Gilroy, Melissa Caplan, Michelle Clapton, Francesca von Thyssen, Robert Durant, Robert Laws, Pam Hogg, Judy Blame, Lesley Chilkes, Jayne Chilkes, Perry Haines, Scarlett, Myra, Dexter Wong, Dinny Hall, Kate Garner, Jeremy Healy, Steve Mahoney, Ollie O'Donnell, Jimmy O'Donnell, Jo Strettell, Chris Sullivan, Simon Withers, Graham Smith, Graham Ball, Robert Elms, Steve Dagger, Midge Ure, Billy Currie, Richard James Burgess, Steve Lewis, Steve Norman, Gary and Martin Kemp, John and Flea Keeble, Tony Hadley, Christos Tolera, Jon (Mole) Baker, Peter Ashworth, Peter (Marilyn) Robinson, Stewart Mechem, Peter Probert, Rose Turner, Rachel Auburn, Paul Sturridge, Steve Beech, Robert Pereno, Bic Owen, Jelena Lakovick, Mandy d'Witt, Jo Hargreaves, Naomi Gryn, Christine Binnie, Holly Warburton, Bailey Walsh, Sue Clowes, Vivienne Lynn, Jennifer Binnie, Tracey Rivers, Philip Sallon, Wilf Rogers, Jeffrey Hinton, Dencil Williams, Paul Bernstock, Thelma Speirs, Dean Bright, Wilma Johnson, Daryl Humphries, Barry O'Dea, Michael Hurd, Paranoid Pete, Jacqueline Capron, Tim Dry, Barbie Wilde, Haley Harris, Peter Godwin, Karl Adams, Babs Mahon, Swede Mahoney, Mac London, John Barclay, Jill McComish, Robert Gordon, Helen Carey, Martin Degville, Kenny Campbell, Robert G Leach, Caroline Des Noettes Harper, Claire Mendelsohn, Chris Buxbaum, Bob Cleary, Debra Rossiter Guterres, Donna Waite, Franceska Luther King, Nigel Stark, Sioux Peto, John Barclay, Gabriella Palmano, Teresa Hartrey, Sue Scadding, Paul Disney, Claire Mendelsohn, Paul Frecker, Corinne Drewery, Helen Carey, Wendy May, Mark May, Wendy Tiger ... PLUS those trendsetters from an earlier chapter of London's story, including Duggie Fields, Kevin Whitney, Luciana Martinez, Michael and Gerlinda Kostiff, Andrew Logan, Brian Clarke, Richard Sharah, Marie Helvin, Gilbert and George ...
Club For Heroes & Camden Palace
In October 1980, the Blitz Club night was temporarily put on hold. In the meantime, Visage had gone onto to be something more than they had ever imagined it would with its first chart hit, Fade to Grey. Midge (Ure) and Billy Idol also went on to do big things with Ultravox, and as a solo phenomenon (respectively). Whilst the New Romantic movement continued growing, Steve and Rusty then moved on to our next ventures Club For Heroes (1981), and the Camden Palace (1982-84) which became one of London’s first full-time clubs driven by new music and style.
The ethos of The Blitz carried on with Steve hosting and organizing and Rusty taking care of the music. Camden Palace featured many appearances of artists that either where already (or soon would be) household names... Madonna, Kraftwerk, Michael Jackson and Grace Jones. Steve & Rusty moved on from Camden Palace in 1984.
Warren Street squatters, drag queen, fashion hopefuls, burnt out punks - this fabulous ragbag of suburban fantasists, urban hustlers , wannabe sophisticates and eternal dreamers sashayed into the cramped confines of the Blitz like it was the Weimar in the 1930s. But outside it was Britain, lurching towards 1980, mass unemployment and class conflict. Our superheroes were no elitists ,but refugees from a class war they didn't belong in, penniless aesthetes creating bourgeois spectacles on dole queue budgets.
The Blitz Club - Worried About The Boy (BBC Two)
The Blitz Music Playlist
The list below is just a snapshot of a much larger body of music that Rusty personally selected, wove together, and presented to an audience ready and willing to devour new sounds and new styles.
Richard James Burgess (Member of Landscape, Shock and as Spandau Ballet's first producer) summed up the Blitz playlist as follows
"Rusty had concocted this amazing soundtrack for the Blitz club; and subsequently the movement. I still don't think he gets the credit he deserves for that. He was putting together music from artists like Bowie, Fad Gadget, Roxy Music, Eno, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Ultravox, Kraftwerk and Landscape; choice cuts that all pointed in one direction. I got it right away. It was a like a shot of dopamine straight to the brain for me".
We will probably never know how many hundreds of records passed across Rusty's decks over the years. Doubtless many tracks became perennial favourites that were played again and again in subsequent clubs after the Blitz.
The Blitz Club playlist is maintained by Blitz Archivist Rob Kirby from ReVox Magazine
Blitz Club Playlist
Don Armando – Deputy of Love (12" full length version) 1979
Blondie – Heart of Glass (7" edit) 1978
David Bowie – Always Crashing in the Same Car (from the album Low) 1977
David Bowie – Be My Wife 1977
David Bowie – Helden (German 7" version) 1977
David Bowie – Sound & Vision 1977
David Bowie – D.J. (7" edit) 1979
David Bowie – Ashes to Ashes (7" edit) 1980
Cabaret Voltaire – Nag Nag Nag 1979
Wendy Carlos – Theme from a Clockwork Orange (Beethoviana) 1972
Cerrone – Supernature (12" full length version) 1977
Billy Cobham – Storm (from the album Crosswinds) 1974
Barry De Vorzon – Theme from The Warriors (from the soundtrack to The Warriors) 1979
Alice Cooper – Eighteen 1971
Cowboys International – Thrash 1979
Holger Czukay – Hollywood Symphony (from the album Movies) 1979
Sheila and B. Devotion – Spacer (12" full length version) 1979
Brian Eno – No One Receiving (from the album Before and after Science) 1977
Brian Eno – Kings Lead Hat 1978
Brian Eno and Snatch – RAF (b-side to King's Lead Hat 7") 1978
Eno, Moebius, Roedelius – Broken Head (from the album After the Heat) 1978
Fad Gadget – Ricky's Hand 1980
Marianne Faithful – Broken English (12" long version) 1979
Flying Lizards – Money (7" edit) 1979
John Foxx – No One Driving (7" remix) 1980
Peter Gabriel – Games without Frontiers (7" edit) 1980
Nina Hagen Band – TV Glotzer (White Punks on Dope) 1979
Human League – Being Boiled (from the 7" EP Holiday '80 and Travelogue album) 1980
Japan – Life in Tokyo (original 7" short version) 1979
Jean Michel Jarre – Equinoxe 4 (French 12" remix) 1978
Grace Jones – La Vie en Rose (7" edit) 1977
Joy Division – Atmosphere 1980
Kraftwerk – Radioactivity (7" edit) 1976
Kraftwerk – Trans Europe Express (7" edit) 1977
Kraftwerk – The Robots (original 7" edit) 1978
Kraftwerk – Das Model 1978
La Düsseldorf – La Düsseldorf (from the album La Düsseldorf) 1976
La Düsseldorf – Geld (from the album Viva) 1978
Landscape – U2XME1X2MUCH 1977
Landscape – European Man (7" version) 1980
Thomas Leer and Robert Rental – Day Breaks, Night Heals (from the album The Bridge) 1979
Lori and the Chameleons – Touch 1979
M – M Factor (UK version, b-side to Pop Muzik 7") 1979
Magazine – Touch and Go 1978
Mahler – Adagio from the 5th Symphony (from the soundtrack Death in Venice) 1971
Patrick D. Martin – I Like 'Lectric Motors 1979
Giorgio Moroder – The Chase (12" full length version) 1978
Ennio Morricone – 60 Seconds to What (La Resa Dei Conti) (from the soundtrack For a Few Dollars More) 1964
Mott the Hoople – All the Young Dudes 1972
Neu! – E-Musik (from the album Neu! '75) 1975
The Normal – Warm Leatherette (b-side to T.V.O.D. 7") 1978
Gary Numan & Tubeway Army – Down in the Park 1978
Gary Numan – Cars 1979
OMD – Electricity (7" re-recorded version) 1979
Iggy Pop – The Passenger (from the album Lust for Life) 1977
Iggy Pop – Nightclubbing (from the album The Idiot) 1977
The Psychedelic Furs – Sister Europe 1980
Lou Reed – Perfect Day 1972
Lou Reed – Vicious 1972
Lou Reed – Walk on the Wild Side (unedited album version) 1972
Rinder and Lewis – Willie and the Hand Jive 1979
Rockets – Space Rock (12" full length version) 1977
Michael Rother – Zyklodrom (from the album Flammende Herzen) 1977
Yellow Magic Orchestra – Computer Game (Theme from The Invaders) 1979
Yellow Magic Orchestra – Behind the Mask 1980
Visage
Pioneers of the New Romantic movement, Visage emerged in 1978 from the London club Blitz, a neo-glam nightspot which stood in stark contrast to the prevailing punk mentality of the moment. Spearheading Blitz's ultra-chic clientele were Steve Strange and DJ Rusty Egan, one time drummer with the Rich Kids. Steve Strange working with Rusty Egan and another Rich Kids alum, guitarist Midge Ure recorded music that would fit into the sound of the Blitz. In late 1978 they recorded a demo which yielded the first Visage single, an aptly futuristic cover of Zager & Evans' 'In the Year 2525’. Augmented by Ultravox keyboardist Billy Currie as well as three members of Magazine - bassist Barry Adamson, guitarist John McGeoch, and keyboardist Dave Formula - Visage released their first single 'Tar' on Martin Rushents Genetic Records in September 1979.
Powered by the rise of the New Romantic movement, on the August 1st 1980 Steve Strange signed a record deal with Polydor, as “Visage” (the other musicians were already signed via other bands and contributed via sideman agreements). The Visage self-titled debut LP followed. The album yielded a major single in "Fade to Grey," an instant club classic which heralded synth pop's imminent commercial breakthrough. The follow-up, "Mind of a Toy," was a UK Top 20 hit. The follow up was 1982's The Anvil. Beat Boy was the third album, released in 1984. In 2013 Visage returned with the 'Hearts and Knives' album. Steve Strange here aided by musicians Steve Barnacle (Bass), Robin Simon (ex Ultravox Guitarist) and Lauren Duvall (on vocals).
2014 saw keyboardist Logan Sky contribute on keyboards for the release of Visage 'Orchestral' album. Steve Strange sadly died in Egypt on Feb 15th, 2015. The final album 'Demons To Diamonds' was released posthumously later that year.
The Visage legacy is now managed by the Steve Strange Collective.
VISAGE (1980)
Visage is the eponymous debut studio album. It was recorded at Genetic Sound Studios in Reading, Berkshire and released by Polydor Records on 10 November 1980.
The album reached No. 13 in the UK and was certified Silver by the British Phonographic Industry in March 1981. It features the hit single "Fade to Grey", which reached No. 8 on the UK Singles Chart and Top 10 positions in Europe, including No. 1 in Germany and Switzerland. It also contained the singles "Mind Of A Toy" and "Visage"
THE ANVIL (1982)
The second Visage album The Anvil album reached No. 6 in the UK and was certified "Silver" by the British Phonographic Industry in April 1982.
The album is named after a New York's gay club of the same name. The album contained the singles "The Dammed Don't Cry", "Night Train".
Not featured on this album but released shortly afterwards was the single "Pleasure Boys".
BEAT BOY (1984)
"Beatboy" was recorded at Trident Studios between 1982 and 1983.
It was finally released on Polydor Records in October 1984.
It reached No. 79 on the UK album chart. The album featured the singles "Love Glove" and "Beatboy".
ORCHESTRAL (2014)
An Album of the Visage hits re-recorded with the Prague Philharmonic & other Orchestras.
Including a new 7 minute version of Fade To Grey (also released as a single)
HEARTS & KNIVES (2012)
Founding fathers of the New Romantics and pioneers of the 80's sound return with a new album "Hearts And Knives".
Founding fathers of the New Romantics and pioneers of the 80's sound, Visage, return with a new album "Hearts And Knives". "It has been 29 years since the last Visage album and during that period it often seems like we have all lived through several lifetimes" comments Steve Strange, the bands creative force and flamboyant leader singer.
Visage began in 1978 when Steve Strange and Blitz Club partner-in-crime Rusty Egan joined forces with Midge Ure to create a futuristic, synthesizer-led group where style and fashion were matched by experimental but accessible music. The group was soon augmented with members of Magazine (John McGeoch, Dave Formula and Barry Adamson) and Billy Currie. They recorded their first single Tar with Martin Rushent at his Genetic Studio in 1979 (shortly to become the birthplace of the Human League Dare album)
Their breakthrough track "Fade To Grey" became a European hit and reached number 1 in eight countries in 1980. The band then enjoyed a series of hit singles "Mind Of A Toy", "Night Train" and "The Anvil" coming from a pair genre defying albums, the eponymous "Visage" in 1980 and "The Anvil" in 1982. In 1981 Ultravox now led by Midge Ure took off and in 1982 Midge and Billy left to concentrate on what would become one of the biggest bands of the 80's. In 1984 Visage made their 3rd album "Beatboy". As the public face of the band Steve Strange shot to stardom throughout Europe he continued to be active in hosting club nights (The Camden Palace, Club For Heroes) and in the fashion world.
In 2010 Steve reconnected with Steve Barnacle and began writing songs once more. Some time later ex-Ultravox guitarist Robin Simon joined the equation, bringing not only a large slice of shared musical DNA (that "Visage sound") to the project, but also his own distinctive style and ethereal musicianship. Vocalist Lauren Duvall was invited into the fold, adding not only her sultry vocal ability but a slice of the classic Visage glamour too. With the core members in place the picture slowly started forming and the band reached out (once again) to Martin Rushent. He suggested the blueprint for the album and had began working on the first tracks before his untimely death in 2010. The "Hearts And Knives" album is dedicated to Martin.
The album features collaborations and contributions from Dave Formula (former Visage and Magazine keyboard player) , Mick MacNeil (the former keyboard player and creative musical core of Simple Minds), 80s super producer Youth, Rich Mowatt and Logan Sky. The sound of Hearts and Knives is "classic Visage" but with modern songs and style. There is the odd tip of the hat to modern production values but the sound is 1980-1982 Visage. It's Vintage keyboards and synthesizers all the way. There's not software synths on this record! The production by John Bryan and analogue synthesizer collector Sare Havlicek is firmly rooted in the 80's. Many tracks of the tracks are instantly recognizable as Visage (Moogs and the obligatory CR78 drum sound feature on several).
Visage (French for "Face") has always been one part music to one part style & fashion. In 1980 the explosive combination of then futurist synthesizer music, fashion, make up & gender ambiguity set the blue print for the New Romantic movement and eventually the style template of the 1980's. Visage was one of the bands to evolve out of the famous night club the Blitz Club, created and hosted by Steve Strange and Rusty Egan. Other bands included the infamous Spandau Ballet and Culture Club.
Innovative style, clothing and make-up continue to be central to brand "Steve Strange". In a series of style looks for the album he has collaborated with designers Haus of Gaga, Sorapol, Mark Fowler and long time collaborator milliner Stephen Jones OBE. The first album cover in 1980 was shot by veteran music photographer Peter Ashworth in the Blitz Club. Peter returns to shoot the cover of the fourth album. The shot references the famous "Fade To Grey" white face & water motif now displayed on a mask created by Lara Himpelmann. The current day Steve Strange bursts through the mask in a blaze of sliver & red.
"Hearts And Knives" may have been a long time in coming but it is a purposeful statement of just where Steve Strange and Visage are at present. The past has been full of highs and lows but musically & creatively they are at a point where they can confidently present an album containing all the strands of their unique mix of music, fashion and style.
Featuring the studio songs that Steve Strange was working on with Visage prior to his untimely death which shocked the world in Feb 2015. Album cover art by Boy George. Launched to coincide with the inaugural "Steve Strange" New Romantic music festival in Wales. All Royalties from the album to be donated to the Steve Strange Statue fund. Musical contributions by Mick Macneil (Simple Minds) and Didier "Space" Marouani ("Magic Fly"). The album also features a cover version of the David Bowie song "Loving The Alien".
In September 2015 the "Steve Strange Collective" organization was formed by Steve's Mother, Sister and Steves former PA Amanda Lloyd. The Steve Strange Collective is "An organization to promote and celebrate the legacy of Steve Strange and the organizations and causes he was involved with." They are currently involved in two major projects the first annual "New Romantic Festival" in Porthcawl, Wales and a campaign to fund, design and place a statue of Steve Strange in a prominent location. All royalties from the album will be donated to the Steve Strange Statue fund.
Steve Strange & Visage began working on their follow up album to 2013 "Hearts And Knives" in spring 2014. With over 15 songs written and scheduled the band had recorded just over half when Steve sadly died on Feb 12th 2015. After the shock of losing their leader the band rather than leave the album uncompleted decided to persevere and complete the album. The result is a lasting legacy to one of the UKs most creative music and fashion icons of recent years
History has always had its golden moments of change and by 1978 in the UK, this took on the form of a new movement of style, one that was to eclipse the grand dame of punks Vivienne Westwood' and her then partner Malcolm Maclaren's movement. This was another group independent free spirited 18 to 20 year olds, with their multi coloured hairdos teamed with clothes statement's of their own creation or made by their imaginative friends. This collective energy force was to turn London's music, fashion, art and finance head in a spin.
They chose to shun the excepted norm and took fashion to reflect their visual political statement and it was worn all day & everyday, on public transport and to the supermarket. At night, these changelings came into their own, having a natural platform to express themselves every Tuesday night, at The BLITZ CLUB, spearheaded by their contemporary's and the nights host STEVE STRANGE. At the club, this body of creative minds would strived to create ideas that would move the bench mark in the world of art, music, fashion, finance and everyday living, as it was then. Like mind people would merge and listen to electronic inspired music, played by STEVE's then business partner in crime DJ/Producer RUSTY EGAN. Under the eagle eye of Mr Strange, the door policy that night was so strict, Steve vetted people at the door, to ensure the melting pot was perfect. And for new designers, STEVEN would champion their work, from Judith Franklin spectacular black taffeta evening wear, to Melissa Caplan checked steel grey and cafe o lay tabards over her tailored slate grey trousers, to Willy Brown's muted stone or royal blue cotton drill suits and pants in paired down military uniform look, to must have W/Browns 90% grey marled pants-that David Bowie bought, to Darla Jane Gilroy's triangular suede studded collars and cuffs in tan with gold studs or her black with silver, that were more akin to Japanese warriors in 1980's movie Kagamusha and sold to one of the best stores in the world "Maxfield" in LA when she was still a student, and PX New Romantics destination store, where Helen Robinson designer star was manager Rosemary Turner, Rosemary was on hand to keep STEVE in the loop on PX fine cotton cross over tops and trousers, (these items become New Romantic signature pieces after the MR S STRANGE had worn them), downstairs of PX housed milliner Stephen Jones now super star in the fashion world. Mr Jones superb head gear, was worn by Kim Bowen-now top stylist in LA and was then Stephen's muse, girl about town & part time sales gal.
Text By Stephen Mahoney, Media Consultant and Fashion Editor