Hysteric Glamour designs follow the slim and tight silhouettes of the archetype Rock and Roll musician with commensurate glamour and pomp. Designer Nobuhiko Kitamura, further develops his ideas with the infusion of vampish sensuality and a touch of female cruelty.
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KURT COBAIN
Born in Aberdeen, Washington, February 20, 1967, Cobain served as lead singer, guitarist and songwriter for the Seattle-based rock band Nirvana. Despite widespread acclaim and success following the band's breakthrough album, “Never Mind”, Cobain struggled with drug addiction and media pressure surrounding him and his wife, actress and musician Courtney Love. On April 8,1994, Cobain was found dead, the victim of a self-inflicted shotgun wound. The circumstances of his death would become a topic of fascination and debate for years to come.
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RAMONES
The Ramones were a pioneer punk rock band formed in the middle-class neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens. Each member adopting the same stage surname Ramone, the band built its following at the landmark rock club CBGB that would become the center of New York punk rock scene. Through intensely short and powerful anthems, the Ramones propelled rock & roll forward galvanizing the burgeoning UK punk scene inspiring future acts like the Sex Pistols.
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NEW YORL DOLLS
In 1971, the New York Dolls entered the music scene combining the skills of singer David Johansen, guitarists Johnny Thunders and Sylvain Sylvain, and bassist Arther“Killer”Kane. The Dolls novel fusion of proto-punk and glam rock elements would prefigure common themes of the punk rock era and much later, popular hard rock.
After gaining management and attracting industry interest, the band got a break when Rod Stewart (THE FACES) invited them to open for him at a London concert, attracting an audience which included the likes of David Bowie.
The band's label, Mercury, dropped the Dolls not long after the second album. In 1975, foundering in drug abuse and interpersonal spats, the band briefly recruited Marcolm McLaren as their new manager. While McLaren's provocative stunts had worked for the Sex Pistols, they largely failed to achieve their intended results stateside and blew up in the Dolls' faces.
Despite relatively weak commercial success, the band impact persisted influencing a whole era of musicians and bands including Kiss, Blondie, The Clash, Ramones, and The Damned.,/p>
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MARK STEWART
Mark Stewart (VOCALS) and Gareth Sager (GUITAR) formed The Pop Group in 1978, in Bristol, England. The Pop Group split in 1981, with Stewart and two other members heading off to London to hook up with the emerging On-U Sound. Stewart has since made several albums under his own name as well as collaborating with artists such as Nine Inch Nails, and Primal Scream. His latest album Edit will be released on the Crippled Dick Hot Wax! label in spring/summer 2008.