Alex de Mora:
“The
idea for the shoot was to look at Louis in a more stripped back and honest way,
rather than the usual glossy pictures of a pop star. In my head I wanted to
shoot him with a harder aesthetic than people might be used to seeing …. the
way that i’d shoot a rapper, not a popstar. He’s a down to earth northern guy,
so was fun to direct and to joke about with. I had pulled a bunch of references
to make things easy for him, but honestly I think he was just as excited to do
the shoot as the rest of us. He loves his streetwear and his high end brands so
I knew he’d be into the looks that Atip, the stylist put together. It was
obvious that he was keen to show his personality as an older guy, and wear some
clothes that he genuinely likes!”
Polari
isn’t a fully functioning language. It doesn’t have a grammar or a
comprehensive vocabulary. Instead, it’s a slang, a code, a kind of substitution language in which you
can drop in certain words in place of others. Polari was
a private language that gay men could use in public without fear.
David Bowie has a song – “Girl
Loves Me” that's completely in Polari. Many words from Polari are still used as
slang today.
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