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"Marianne [Faithfull] lived near us for some years, in a remote cottage that had previously been used as a location by Stanley Kubrick for one of the opening scenes in Barry Lyndon. Here we were driving into Dublin one summer’s evening, with John Hurt and his girlfriend in the front of the car." — Julian Lloyd


Marianne Faithfull by Julian Lloyd

“Julian is like the Nan Goldin of 60s and 70s London.”

 shares the work of photographer Julian Lloyd.

"I think Nick [Drake] had just started recording some of the songs for his first album when we did this session on the spur of the moment. The blanket was something that my parents had bought on their honeymoon. With the benefit of hindsight, I am so pleased to have these photographs of Nick when he was still the happy, laughing young man his friends remember." — Julian Lloyd

Nick Drake

Prints charming

Timabaland's Has a Meaning video

Rappers and their Bored Apes.

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Past their primates

Kris Jenner

The teachings of Kris Jenner.

takes the Kardashian matriarch’s MasterClass.

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You're doing amazing, sweetie

Ken Leung as Eric Tao in Industry Season 1, 2020. (HBO)

Ken Leung in Industry Season 1

An interview with Industry's costume designer.

chats with Industry’s new costume designer, Colleen Morris-Glennon, and considers buying a skirt suit.

Pierpoint & Co. grails

Uma Thurman recreates "The Birth of Venus" in "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen," 1998. (YouTube)

Uma Thurman in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Our bodies, our shells.

on the scallop shell motif as luxury object.

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Shell-shocked

Alicia Vikander in Irma Vep, 2022. (Carole Bethuel/HBO)


Alicia Vikander in Irma Vep

The remake within a remake of Irma Vep.

on Olivier Assayas’s Irma Vep miniseries, a less cynical Hollywood remake.

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Les Vampires

Closer

It is forbidden to see photos of your friends.

on the blue-balling of Instagram’s userbase.

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Forbidden desires

Revisiting Industry (cover image)

The show that launched this very newsletter.

Monday marks the season 2 premier of HBO’s Industry. The oldest Dirtbags will recall that Dirt launched in December 2020 with a week of content about Industry season 1. Before you dive in to season 2, revisit some of our greatest hits.

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Revisiting Industry

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