{"id":31794,"date":"2019-09-12T13:25:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T12:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=31794"},"modified":"2019-09-12T13:27:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T12:27:16","slug":"vogue-leah-hennessey-cites-toyah-the-tempest-as-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/vogue-leah-hennessey-cites-toyah-the-tempest-as-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"Vogue: Leah Hennessey Cites Toyah\/The Tempest as Influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/leah-hennessey-zhe-zhe-band-sleeping-beauty-slash-play-music-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/leah-hennessey-zhe-zhe-band-sleeping-beauty-slash-play-music-video noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-25578 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tempest16b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tempest16b.jpg 220w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tempest16b-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><strong>This New York City Playwright\u2019s Music Video Puts a Fantastical Spin on the Tutu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When New York artist Leah Hennessey starts describing some of the influences of her band\u2019s first official video, \u201cSleeping Beauty,\u201d you can tell straight away that she\u2019s a pop culture fanatic.<\/p>\n<p>She references comic books like Grant Morrison\u2019s The Invisibles, old fairy tales like Sleeping Beauty\u2014unsurprising, given the song\u2019s title\u2014and deeper cuts like cult director Derek Jarman\u2019s 1979 film <em>The Tempest<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;The ballet look, on the other hand, was loosely based on Toyah Willcox\u2019s costumes in Jarman\u2019s <em>The Tempest<\/em>. \u201cI was going for a feral balletic ethereality to evoke the fairy-tale aspect of the song,\u201d she describes. Plus, she never before had an excuse to wear a tutu.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/leah-hennessey-zhe-zhe-band-sleeping-beauty-slash-play-music-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Vogue.com<\/strong><\/a>. Browse our archive dedicated to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?s=the+tempest\"><strong>The Tempest<\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/leah-hennessey-zhe-zhe-band-sleeping-beauty-slash-play-music-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/leah-hennessey-zhe-zhe-band-sleeping-beauty-slash-play-music-video noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-28672 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dfftempest18b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dfftempest18b.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dfftempest18b-300x123.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This New York City Playwright\u2019s Music Video Puts a Fantastical Spin on the Tutu When New York artist Leah Hennessey starts describing some of the influences of her band\u2019s first official video, \u201cSleeping Beauty,\u201d you can tell straight away that she\u2019s a pop culture fanatic. She references comic books like Grant Morrison\u2019s The Invisibles, old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,66],"tags":[171,2246,221],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31794"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31800,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31794\/revisions\/31800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}