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Valentine Fillol Cordier (June 2005 - March 2010)

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I don't think her old A.P.C Madras pictures have been posted..





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she comes into the restaurant i work at .. hix in soho quite a lot. she is truely beautiful in real life and super sweet and seems to have a new man.. really cute.... and maybe french?

she is so adorable though and her style is impeccable!
 
The Serge Gainsbourg cover she did with Lightspeed Champion is available on iTunes from today.
 
Charles Anastase & Magnus Unnar Collaboration S/S 09



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^Thanks for posting the pics and song, Classicalbang:flower::heart: Finally get to hear Valentine singB)
 
Vagabondiana talks to Valentine Fillol-Cordier for Valentine’s Day…

…on love and vintage values.


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Saint Valentine was murdered for marrying Christian lovers. He believed in personal freedom and the right to self-expression. Is there a cause in the name of freedom for which you would you risk your life?

Yes, I mean you would die for the person you love. But in the name of freedom, I am sure if I lived in Palestine, or within a repressed regime like Burma, or in America with a kid who had died in Iraq then there would be a cause. But I think there have to be wake-up effects, something that triggers your primal urges, such as something happening to your own child. Then you would risk your life.

John Lennon said: ‘Love is all you need.’ Is love enough to save the planet?
If everyone could place their love in the right place then yes, but so many loves and passions are misplaced. So many people are only interested in themselves; passions for themselves. There is no idea of community anymore and little loving each other. I believe culture and education could save the world. Too many people are uneducated and in western society, kept uneducated. Of course, tons of people do great things but so many young people are totally obsessed with themselves.

In May 1968, young Parisians rioted for a better world. Street posters read ‘Be Young and Shut Up.’ How much of that rebellion do you see in present-day youth, and if not enough, why not?

In general people feel there’s nothing to fight for anymore. Women used to fight for equality, but now, with naked girls all over magazines it’s like, if anything we have become too liberated. I found the current LOVE magazine covers [five different covers featuring naked supermodels] so shocking. In that it was so disappointing, boring and unchallenging. Naked women pulling at their pubic hair! It’s certainly not my notion of beauty. It was pathetic. And to say they were different sizes? I’m sorry, I was a model for ten years and all of those women just had the same measurements as each other in comparison to regular girls. None of them were regular girls.

And women not using their vote, it’s as if we have no respect for the freedom our grandmother’s generation fought for. It’s sad. There is a type of parenting where people just let there kids do whatever they like and don’t educate them and that is why kids don’t fight for anything anymore. In Paris, political activism is still something as it’s in our history and culture. There is a lot of unemployment. Even after five years at university it’s hard to get jobs unless you come from a rich background. I think here in the U.K. things will get so bad that kids will have to wake up. I'm a pessimist, but it’s like people really have to be slapped in the face before they will do anything.

The Situationists - a 60’s counter-culture movement that believed art and culture were in the vanguard of change and revolution and that advertising was an attack on the quality of the human spirit - hatched their grand plan in the sailor's mission where I live. What effect does 360 degree advertising today have on your spirit?
I agree with the Situationists! But at the same time in my job [former model and now creative consultant for Charles Anastase] it is advertising that pays for me to live. There are degrees though. I mean I saw the new Roman Polonski film, The Ghost Writer, the other day and within the first few minutes there was Smirnoff vodka, some kind of gin and BMW. I was like Woooah, it’s just so obvious! Valentine’s Day of course is a mass commercial operation thing. All about consumerism. Of course it’s lovely to celebrate love and I am sure for some couples it’s the only day a year they spend time properly together but it’s like Christmas and all of these holidays, they are all about public spending.

The Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre in 1930’s prohibition Chicago meant 8 deaths over control of a banned substance; alcohol. What are your views on popular banned substances such as heroin, cocaine and ecstasy?
I don’t think the government should relax the law. Drugs are banned for a reason. They are bad, they destroy lives, not just the family and loved ones, but the people doing them. Even weed today is so strong, I can’t even handle a spliff anymore! I used to smoke ten joints a day but I had to stop as it was having such a bad effect on me. I was totally unmotivated and having massive fights with my mum. I still smoke cigarettes but it’s such a bad habit and for the first time in my life I am thinking about quitting.

... God I must sound so old-fashioned! But I am quite conservative really, not politically but in that I like traditions and I like vintage traditions!

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^I love that interview! I'm surprised by how really refreshingly 'old-fashioned' she came across. and quite intelligent. I'm impressed, I've always just loved her for her clothes ^_^ :lol:
 
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