'Never
get involved in a new publication,' my boss would intone, in the days
when old publications were deemed to be safe. We did editing with
pencils, rubbers, scissors, glue, a Rotadex full of jokes, and an art
department along the carpeted corridor. They had scalpels and a more
narcotic glue. The art director was chairman of the Royal Yachting
Association.
We moved on. One of us married the chairman of a big four accountancy firm. One became the Duchess of Buccleuch.
And I got involved in a new publication.
The Amorist is edited by Rowan Pelling, who negotiates the boundaries of taste with zest and refinement. Billed as 'a romantic,
witty and discursive erotic magazine – a flirtatious conversation,
designed to appeal to women and men', it's aimed like Cupid's arrow at readers of
The Oldie,
History Today,
The Lady,
The Spectator...
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| Selfridges' window, 2016 |
My own involvement is a feature
written and illustrated by me about drawing
shibari for this blog,
http://boulevardisme.blogspot.co.uk/. I'm
very happy to have it in the launch issue.
PS my former boss was proved right again.
