Female Film Club, 2024-2025, vintage leather jackets, gloves and helmets with various studs, leather paint, stickers, automotive vinyl, letraset, velvet adhesive, pins and badges, dimensions variable.
Female Film Club is a self-portrait of my music and filmic life up until now. The badges and pins on the front of the jacket are from my personal collection; merchandise I have collected from gigs and record stores to immortalise my obsessions; all with a nod back to John Water’s film Female Trouble.
Female Film Club pays homage to the dissident, underground cinema of the 1960’s and 70’s. The combination of leather jacket and chrome studs fetishising the wearer. Associated with bikers, high-fashion and punk rock, the leather jacket is a subversive, hyper-masculine and totally queer item of clothing – especially when it has been studded, pinned and badged.
Taking cues from Kenneth Anger’s “Scorpio Rising” (1963) in which embellishments, sexual objectification and dirty, loud machinery seamlessly intertwine, and Marianne Faithful’s “The Girl on a Motorcycle” (1968), portraying a woman liberating herself from her marriage on her prized motorbike; Female Film Club is a queer-portrait in leather and chrome.