Edwige Belmore
Edwige Belmore (around 1957 - September 22, 2015 in Miami , Florida ) was a French model , bouncer, and singer. She was considered a punk icon of the late 1970s and 1980s.
Life
Edwige Belmore was part of the New York and Paris party scene for many years around stars like Andy Warhol , was a regular at the legendary Studio 54 , and went out with Loulou de la Falaise , Blondie singer Debbie Harry , Bianca Jagger and Farida Khelfa . An encounter with Paloma Picasso opened up the world of the jet set for her, she met both Sade Adu and Grace Jones . “With her platinum blonde, short hair and her androgynous beauty, Belmore, who worked in the Paris nightclub Palace in the 1980s , cast a spell over fashion designers like Thierry Mugler and Jean Paul Gaultier .” After her death, Gaultier called her “the most beautiful” on Twitter Platinengel ”he has ever met. At Club Le Palace , she worked as a bouncer for a while.
She was friends with Yves Saint Laurent , worked as a model for Helmut Newton , Maripol , Jean-Baptiste Mondino , as well as for Pierre et Gilles , and ran at fashion shows by Gaultier and Mugler. She appeared on Mugler's 1979 Bond Show in a fishnet and black jacket, singing My Way - in the Sid Vicious version. Her picture appeared on the covers of Verbal Abuse , Façade and Interview . On the cover of Façade, she kissed a puzzled-looking Andy Warhol and the headline read: "The Queen of Punk Meets the Pope of Pop". Her body was increasingly adorned with artistic tattoos, and just as the black leather jacket with platinum blonde hairstyle was her trademark, she also appeared in a tuxedo, but with enormous safety pins as earrings. Belmore's androgyny and independence were key to success.
In the early 1980s, Belmore sang in the new wave band Mathématiques Modernes , one of the first groups to consistently use synthesizers . However , she used the status attributed to her as Queen of Punk quite self-deprecatingly. A revival of their fame came with the documentary Des Jeunes Gens Modernes by Jerome de Missolz , which was presented at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival . Belmore spent the last few years before her death at the Vagabond Hotel in Miami, where she also took care of the garden, according to manager Bratt Adelman in an interview with the AFP news agency. She died in a hospital - "surrounded by her friends," the Vagabond Hotel confirmed. The news of the death was spread by the fashion magazine Vogue .
She is said to have been 58 years old at the time of her death.
Quotes
"Edwige Belmore exemplifies this: the embodiment of an artistic movement - the one that she calls the Nouveau post-punk - which she's still the symbol of."
"I understood the punk movement from London: it was really a social battle. When it came to France, it was more a fashion thing. "
Web links
- Video statement for Vogue Italy (English)
- Edwige Belmore in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Marie Haynes: Edwige Belmore, l'égérie punk, est décédée. In: Gala , September 24, 2015 (French). Retrieved September 24, 2015.
- ^ ORF : Punk icon Edwige Belmore died , September 23, 2015
- ^ Vogue : Remembering Edwige Belmore, the Legendary Punk of Parisian Nightlife , September 22, 2015
- ^ Vogue Italy: Edwige Belmore , accessed September 23, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Belmore, Edwige |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French model, bouncer and singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1957 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 22nd September 2015 |
| Place of death | Miami , Florida , United States |