Wednesday, April 09, 2025

Molly Parkin with George Melly

Vintage fans of Madame Arcati will recall that I was once the permanent fiance of Molly Parkin who is now in care. In our pronoun stew of a world that last sentence will make some sense to the few. Let me share a fabulous photo of her with the late jazz thingy and writer George Melly, a sometime lover of hers. The photographer is the brilliant Brian David Stevens. Check out his work here. And here is the art...


1 comment:

Katie-Ellen Hazeldine said...

I remember the photographs of George Melly in his younger years. Pin-striped suit. Very foursquare in his physicality. This is not a portrait of a defeat. He is not defeated. But it is a poignant image.