S6 Ep1: Russell Young
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In the first episode of the new season, we join editor-in-chief Tiffanie Darke, fashion editorial director Stacey Duguid and beauty editorial director Katie Service as they talk us through a show-and-tell definition of modern luxury: prepare yourself to hear about the most beautiful, brilliant and downright bonkers things Harrods can offer.\\xa0
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We also hear from Russell Young, an American-British artist best-known for his large-scale silkscreens of legendary cultural figures including Brigitte Bardot, Marilyn Monroe and David Bowie. Born in the north of England, Young spent time living on the streets before making it as a music photographer. His big break came when \\u201cprobably more than half the pictures you\\u2019ve seen of George are mine,\\u201d he said, \\u201cwe had a great relationship over the years". The album \\u2013 which sold 25m copies \\u2013 catapulted Young to international attention and by the \\u201890s he\\u2019d shot everyone from Bruce Springsteen to Bob Dylan. In the 2000s he reinvented himself as a fine artist and quickly found fame for his diamond dust portraits, which \\u2013 in January \\xad\\u2013 became the first artworks in Harrods\\u2019 history to takeover the Brompton Road windows. \\u201cI inherited Warhol\\u2019s printing press, and the first diamond dust paintings I ever created was from a bag of Andy Warhol\\u2019s diamond dust,\\u201d he says. \\u201cI\\u2019ve always said that I pin the paintings on my studio wall at night and put a huge pile of diamond dust and at night Tinker Bell comes and spreads it around.\\u201d \\xa0
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Visit Russell Young\\u2019s FAME exhibition at the Harrods Halcyon Gallery, 3rd Floor and online at fame.halcyongallery.com\\n
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