Quote of the day: Michael Chow
“It’s a photograph dress, not a wearing dress. And that reminds me of a story. This man sold a thousand tins of sardines, and the buyer rang him up and said, ‘I’ve just eaten one of your sardines. It was disgusting,’ and this man said, `You fool, they weren’t eating sardines, they were buying and selling sardines.’”
Michael Chow on Tina Chow’s Fortuny dress, Vogue, 1973
I’ve gone down a Michael Chow rabbit hole after revisiting his How to Spend It ’The Aesthete‘ and watching the Oscar-worthy trailer of his documentary, AKA Mr Chow.
Let’s also take a minute to appreciate his 1970s Knightsbridge pad and design collection – the Deco desk! The Mickey rug!
The film is out now on HBO and MAX.
WORDS: Disneyrollergirl / Navaz Batliwalla
IMAGE: Michael Chow’s studio in Vogue via Liz Eggleston
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29 October, 2023 @ 1:28 pm
Buying-and-selling sardines – brilliant! I’m a bit like that with decorative matches. I have pretty match boxes and then the ones I use, tucked away in a kitchen drawer
29 October, 2023 @ 1:30 pm
It’s very much like half the furniture we buy. “Don’t sit on that chair. You’ll break it!”
29 October, 2023 @ 1:44 pm
Or “I’ll save that new/expensive mascara for a special occasion”. I suppose every day should be a special occasion.