Absolutely Fabulous The Movie premiered worldwide on Wednesday night with a cavalcade of celebrities and superstars turning out to join Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders for a party that would make Eddie Monsoon swoon.
Kate Moss, Jean Paul Gaultier, Kylie Minogue, Stella McCartney, Sadie Frost, Gerry Hall, Lulu, Emma Bunton, Daisy Lowe, Lily Cole and Jourdan Dunn led the long line up of the great and good down a gold runway into Leicester Square’s Odeon Cinema. Among them were Jonathan Ross, The Krankies, Ade Edmonson, Ben Elton, Tinie Tempah, Jodie Harsh and a parade of drag queens hot with pride.
Abbey Clancey stormed the gold runway rocking a Mimi Wade dress emblazoned with the words ‘Girl On A Motorcycle’ clearly a nod to the legendary Marianne Faithful and confirming pets do count as entourage Carrie Fisher arrived in true ‘sweetie darling’ style with daughter Billie Lourde and her dog.
The official worldwide launch for the film was the party to end all parties for Eddie and Patsy who lapped it up deservingly. Joanna Lumley stunned at 70 wearing customised Jean Paul Gaultier as Jennifer Saunders made a statement in Stella McCartney’s slogan tee ‘No Gluten, No Dairy, No Fur’.
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie | Cameos | Official HD Featurette 2016
Saunders’ character Edina Monsoon can die happy and proud knowing the producers secured the guest-list of her dreams by giving everyone a part in the film. The 90 minutes of movie is a who’s who of endless cameos from Alexa Chung, Graham Norton and Joan Collins to Vogue’s Suzy Menkes and fashion designer Zandra Rhodes.
Kate Moss makes her movie debut plunging into the river Thames wearing a green sequin mermaid gown one of seven replicas made of a dress Johnny Depp gave her when she was 21 and Kylie Minogue recorded the title track ‘Wheels on Fire’ exclusively for the film originally recorded by Debbie Harry for the iconic tv series.
Absolutely Fabulous burst onto our tv screens in 1992 defining the zeitgeist of a decade unaware of itself and blowing the lid off the fashion and pr industry long before any reality tv show. Now in 2016 the technological revolution has ruined Patsy and Eddie’s party as the reality of social media turns socialites into polite and morally aware paranoids who can forget about behaving like no one is watching.
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie | Characters | Official HD Featurette 2016
Jane Horrocks adorned a leisure suit by design duo Vin + Omi who collaborated with costume designer Rebecca Hale on the entire wardrobe for her character Bubble. The London design duo renowned for their fantastical future gazing pieces have created an outlandishly brilliant and painstakingly bespoke wardrobe for the airhead assistant played by Jane Horrocks and even admit to injecting the ‘lip-pout’ hat with real collagen.
A handmade dress covered in 500 handmade flowers waxed to prevent dissolving too quickly transforms Bubble into a latex amphibious creature covered in 1800 scales. Emojis, smiley faces and hashtags complete a wardrobe that reflects Bubble as the only character to grasp the new age of social media.
Jane Horrocks as Bubble in a pastiche of Kim Kardashian’s controversial cover for Paper magazine wearing Vin + Omi
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie is out in UK cinemas NOW!
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