sweet dreams are made of this

A while back our class went on a trip to London to visit the V&A exhibition 'House of Annie Lennox'. Annie Lennox was the singer of a band called Eurythmics and had a very different style sometimes very androgynous that was in the late 80's/early 90's something to behold ! I was particularly excited for this exhibition as when i was a very tiny toddler me and my sisters have vivid memorys of dancing around in the living room with our mum listening to there albums, the eurythmics seemed to be the soundtrack to many a birthday party ! So excitedly i entered the little house in London, it was only made up of about two rooms and within the main room it had a little makeshift house in which sat a desk and original hand written lyrics to many of Eurythmics songs, it said that Annie Lennox would pay visits to this little house and sit in it and write during the time the exhibition was on, however unfortunately the day we went wasnt the day she decided to pay a visit ! there were like cube sections in the wall where you could put your head in and have surround sound of different songs she played and then if you looked down there were little teddy bear ears she wore and different shoes, it was very edgy and unique and suited Lennox down to the ground how it was set up ! There were about four our five outfits that were arranged on a stage against the wall, showing some that she had designed herself such as a british flag suit and then there were also dresses she had worn on tour. These shoes above i just had to take a photo of, i am a live long lover of Doc Martens (again all thanks to this goes to my mum who has had a pair constantly since she was my age) and when i saw these little leopard print (another love) pony hair Doc Marten shoes i loved them so much!! I enjoyed the exhibition so much, Fashion and music to me go hand in hand and i think this idea is always backed up just in realisation, we are creative beings and when someone has the confidance to get on stage they normally have a persona they take on- Elton John and his infamous glasses, Freddie Mercury and his all consuming stage presence that was reflected in the Glamour of his outfits, David Bowie.. the list goes on and on throughout the decades until you get to now where Lady Gaga, Take That, My Chemical Romance, throw as many genres of music as you want in there, everything is a show for them they wear there costumes and they become what we see, sometimes the visual becomes more important than the music or is it just that the music sounds better dressed up? or the costumes sound better with a soundtrack? What im trying to say is Fashion needs to stay intouch with music and street style and everything that goes on around is nobody in anything is one without the other, Annie Lennox's music would of still been amazing but had she not taken on a persona- her short cropped orange hair/her androgynous style/crazy music videos, she would not have the exhibition in the V&A she wouldnt be a personality to be remembered and maybe her music wouldnt be quite as legendary.