Fashion Icon: Yukio Hatoyama

A while back I did a piece on the ANC sanctioned leather jackets that the South African party was selling, and now the turn has come to Japan's Prime Minister and his shirt. The difference is that it isn't Yukio Hatoyama who is flogging his own wardrobe. No, it's the Shanghai based shirt company ShirtsMyWay.com that's manufacturing the check and multi coloured piece, which is yours for a mere $500. You'll find it under the sub heading of 'Prime Minister of Japan & Fashion Hero' on the website. Funnily enough, this seems to be Japanese political fashion week as the Spin post shows below! A Guardian piece quote the designer Don Konishi saying, "Is anyone able to stop him wearing such a thing?" - which I think makes the shirt even more loveable...

Guardian gone Fashion in Politics mad....

A political fashion shoot - who would have thought....

This what you're supposed to be wearing as a Tory, Lib Dem or Labour supporter....

Tory Jeremy Hunt on Art For Art's Sake

Tory Shadow Culture Minister featured in a very interesting article by Charlotte Higgins in the Guardian yesterday. Basically the point was to fight the perception that the Tories are bad for art and culture and that Labour is good for art and culture.


Tories are bad for art and culture and Labour is good for art and culture.


Tories are bad for art and culture and Labour is good for art and culture.


Tories are bad for art and culture and Labour is good for art and culture.


Tories are bad for art and culture and Labour is good for art and culture.


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Tories are bad for art and culture and Labour is good for art and culture.


Tories are bad for art and culture and Labour is good for art and culture.


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Anyway, Hunt went on to list the culture and art he likes, and what he doesn't get:


"In terms of his own cultural tastes, "if you want to talk about something where the scales have come off my eyes," he said, it is "the vibrancy of modern British theatre". He named Jez Butterworth's play Parlour Song and David Hare's satire on New Labour, Gethsemane, as well as the National Theatre's hit family play War Horse. In terms of classical music he is "more early Schoenberg than late Schoenberg". He said: "I have engaged with modern operas – I've been to see Turn of the Screw twice, as a matter of fact." (Benjamin Britten's opera was premiered in 1954.) However, he singled out a passage of a dance piece, Still, by respected choreographer and DV8 co-founder Nigel Charnock, as something he had not enjoyed. "They mutated the national anthem into Hitler salutes… It was tasteless and unnecessary. There's nothing wrong with the power of shock in art but it has to be done in a way that is more than shocking for the sake of shocking"."


Also, he says that "George Osborne [wannabe Chancellor] gave a speech at the Tate about the importance of Art for Art's Sake" .....Why am I not surprised?

Bruno talks Fashion in Politics with the Guardian

The British political scene is in crisis, MPs have never been so reviled. How would you restore confidence?

Ich do not like to talk about politics. Ze last time an Austrian got involved in politics it resulted in ein horrific var, which resulted in ze annihilation of all major European fashion shows for six years. Ich know it's controversial – but in my opinion – Hitler vas a bit of a bitch. I know someone who vas ze grandson of his personal assistant; apparently behind ze scenes he vas a real tyrant. Vorse zan Elton!

The ex-home secretary's husband tried to claim his adult movie habit on expenses. He watched Raw Meat 3 – do you know it?

Nein, ich do not vatch adultmovies. If ich am feeling horny ich vatch Daniel Radcliffe movies. Zey are best watched on DVD vhen ich can pause it, und not run ze risk of accidentally finishing meinself off vhen ze old vizard ist on the screen.

Britain is about to be taken, if not roundly thrashed, by a group of smooth-cheeked public school boys. What should we do?

If you're you are not into ze spanking, pull out ein dildo. Most guys will run quicker zan an Austrian child who has just found ze door to his dungeon unlocked.

How should Gordon Brown improve his YouTube hit count?

Lose ze grimacing: he has ze sort of creepy smile zat makes you check your drink for Rohypnol! He alvays looks so sad – ich think he needs some new batteries in his love eggs und ein makeover. He needs to go in some skinny jeans, und change his name to "DJ Shadow". Und get some shpray tan – hello.

The crypto-fascists of the BNP are on the rise in our country. Do you have a message for them?

It is the wrong vay to get your message across! Look at Adolf, everyone remembers him for ze invading und ze fighting. No one remembers his bold use of colours and inventive accessorising. Or ze fact zat he could co-ordinate zose big shows vith thousands of people und hundreds of costume changes. Let me tell you, if Donatella Versace had been in charge of ze Nuremberg Rally, it vould have been a disaster! Ich have seen zese angry men mit zere shaven heads hanging abaus outside gay clubs. Too scared to come in. Ich says zere's plenty of room in ze Jacuzzi for all types of guys. Not all gays like immigrants you know, so it's no big deal, vassever.

How do you feel about Barack Obama's first 100 days?

He has been OK, but Bruno vould have liked it more if he'd have set up en actual Fashion Police Department vith full powers of arrest. Zey should be able to baton-charge anyone in sweatpants.

Would you style him differently?

Ja, ich vould set that hot body free from its prison made of suits! He should follow Bruno's rule: treat your clothes like you would do a pet. Love zem for a week, zen stick zem in a zip-up bag und throw zem in ze Danube. Then again Obama has to vear ein suit, or else zose gay marines who guard him vould be all over him like puppies on ein dropped ice cream.

Are you planning more Prop 8 demonstrations?

Of course! It is disgusting zat gay people don't have the same rights as straights: the right to be trapped in a loveless sex-free marriage that ends in a massive legal fight over a house. And as for kids, why shouldn't gays be able to adopt? Ein Third World baby is zis season's must-have accessory, and it is discrimination to deny zem this.

Is Bin Laden right? Is Obama antagonising Muslims?

Zose Al Qaida guys are so touchy! But then if all ich had to vear vas a black sheet und some sandals, I vould blow myself up too.

What three changes would you make you heal the world?

* Ban ze elasticating of jean vaists.
* Free colonic hoses on street corners.
* Make Karl Lagerfeld head of ze UN – he got Tyra Banks to appear on ze same runvay as Naomi, he could easily fix ze Middle East.