Judy Blame
Judy Blame is a stylist, jeweller, designer and art director.
Born in 1960 in Leatherhead, Surrey, Blame grew up in Spain and Devon.[1] He ran away to London aged 17.[2]
Whilst active on the club scene in London, Judy Blame assumed his current name. "Judy" was a nickname given to him by the designer Antony Price, and the surname "Blame" was suggested by Scarlett, another friend.[2] Blame has said he deliberately assumed a female name in order to confuse people.[3] When asked his birth name, Blame has refused to answer.[4]
Along with Scarlett (Scarlett Cannon, a hairdresser), Blame ran a club night called "Cha-Chas" at the London nightclub Heaven.[2][5]
Blame's punk aesthetic as art director and stylist helped define magazines such as The Face and i-D throughout the 80s and 90s.[3] During the mid-1980s, along with designers John Moore and Christopher Nemeth, Blame was part of a collective called "The House of Beauty and Culture".[2]
Blame's work, which is often on a large scale, uses a wide range of scrap metal and found objects to create statement pieces.[2][6] During the 1980s he worked closely with the stylist Ray Petri, who was a significant figure on the London club scene of the 1980s,[5] and also collaborated with Leigh Bowery.[6] Blame designs were worn by Duran Duran and The Transmitters.[6] Blame also worked as a stylist for Neneh Cherry, Boy George, Björk and Kylie Minogue.[7]
Among the designers Blame has collaborated with are John Galliano, Richard Nicoll, and Louis Vuitton.[3] For Rei Kawakubo at Comme des Garçons Blame designed a male accessories line.[2][8] In 2005, he was selling his work through Kawakubo's Dover Street Market, and had also provided designs for Gareth Pugh.[7]
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