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Japanese artist Yoko Ono has collaborated with Opening Ceremony to design a menswear collection inspired by her late husband, John Lennon.

A collection of drawings created as a wedding present for Beatles singer John Lennon in 1969 entitled “Fashions for Men” has inspired Yoko Ono’s quirky foray into menswear design.

Concept store Opening Ceremony, which recently launched in London’s Covent Garden, will stock the 18-piece collection of from November 30. Highlights include suit trousers with a hand silhouette sewn over the crotch (approx £210), a jumper with eyelets cut out around the nipples and a battery-operated lightbulb bra which can be worn underneath said top (£160).

Liverpool-born Lennon and Ono collaborated together on an album just weeks before he was assassinated in 1980. “I was inspired to create ‘Fashions for Men’ amazed at how my man was looking so great. I felt it was a pity if we could not make clothes emphasizing his very sexy bod,” Yoko told WWD .

She rather un-modestly continues: “So, I made this whole series with love for his hot bod and gave it to him as a wedding present. You can imagine how he went wild and fell in love with me even more.”

Each piece from the collection, which also includes hoodies (around £50) and two styles of boots has a run of just 52 items. A softcover book comprised of Ono’s drawings accompanies the collection, as well as sweatshirts and posters decorated with her sketches.

“We loved the idea of sort of celebrating the holidays with Yoko with this collection” said Opening Ceremony co-founder Carol Lim, while fellow founder Humberto Leon explained: “I think she just fell in love with John’s body and wanted to show off all of the parts of his body that she loved. There’s something so beautiful about that sentiment. And we’ve realized these designs in pretty actual terms of how she drew them.”

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John Lennon would have celebrated his 72nd birthday last week. It's been 32 years since the pop music icon and celebrated lyricist was shot, but fans still pay their respects at Central Park's Strawberry Fields.

Undoubtedly, many admirers of the musician's groundbreaking work must wonder what else he would have accomplished in his lifetime. The Lennon Letters [Little, Brown, $29.99], a new book comprised of personal notes and exchanges, may not answer that question, but it does provide insight into the artist's thoughts and philosophies.

A particularly intriguing scrapping is a postcard dated 1965-1966. On it, Lennon wrote lyrics to a song that he never recorded. Scratched out and rewritten words indicate that it was a work in progress. 

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Pat Clark remembers vividly the moment two teenage boys leapt over cinema seats to join her and a friend during a movie.

The boys sat down on either side of the two girls.

The 16-year-old who chose to join Mrs Clark had a keen interest in art and music. His name was John Lennon.

They struck up a relationship which lasted a number of weeks until Mrs Clark decided she was too "sensible" for the young Lennon.

The movie house where they met was the Abbey Cinema at the top of Picton Road in Liverpool.

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I've never heard of her before has anyone else? 

Kenwood, John Lennon's former home in the United Kingdom, where his first marriage ended, has been listed for sale through Knight Frank for £15 million.

The six-bedroom 1920s stockbroker Tudor-style house outside Weybridge, Surrey, is 24 miles (39 kilometres) south-west of London.

Lennon bought the property in 1964 and lived there with his first wife,  Cynthia, and son Julian until 1968, when the two split and John linked up with Japanese artist Yoko Ono.

Cynthia Lennon wrote in her 2005 book John' that she returned early from her vacation to find Ono wearing her bathrobe at the property, which was sold in the divorce settlement. 


Lennon married Ono in March 1969, and moved to Tittenhurst Park in Ascot in south-east England. Two years later he moved to New York, where he lived until the fatal shooting in December 1980.

The house occupies a plateau position set around St George’s Hill’s renowned golf course, tennis club and leisure amenities.

Kenwood enjoys uninterrupted views of the Surrey Hills.

The 6,000-square-metre garden, with a new indoor swimming pool complex, features York stone, split level entertaining terraces, low box hedging, specimen plants and herbaceous borders.

It was listed for sale in 2006 at £6 million.


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TORONTO - The play "Backbeat" outlines the birth of the Beatles and the so-called triangular relationship between John Lennon, his best friend and original band bassist Stuart Sutcliffe, and German photographer Astrid Kirchherr.

But British actress Isabella Calthorpe, who plays Kirchherr in the production that hits Toronto this weekend, says the love triangle wasn't a bitter one like many are.

"Astrid certainly never intended to (tear) Stuart apart from the group or apart from John, just very much wanted him to be who he wanted to be. And I think it's a very pure love story in that sense, there's no ego attached to it in that way," she said recently by phone from London.

"But I think there's a bit of a struggle because John idolized Stuart and obviously wanted him to stay and be a Beatle. I think Stuart was ultimately an artist and that's what he wanted to be and that's what he chose to be, and I think a really talented artist too."

Mirvish Productions is bringing "Backbeat" direct from London to run at the Royal Alexandra Theatre from July 21 to Sept. 2. Opening night is July 29.

Iain Softley, who directed and co-wrote the 1994 film of the same name, co-penned the play that's directed by David Leveaux and includes tunes by the Beatles as well as other groups.

The story follows Lennon (Andrew Knott), Sutcliffe (Nick Blood), Paul McCartney (Daniel Healy), George Harrison (Daniel Westwick) and Pete Best (Oliver Bennett) as they journey from Liverpool to Hamburg in search of success.

Kirchherr first met the group when they were performing at a Hamburg club and began to photograph them. She's even credited with helping shape their mop-topped image.

"That was, I think, a look that all her German existentialist group had and wore and they were all very stylish and confident in their style, and she cut Stuart Sutcliffe's hair in that way," said Calthorpe, 32.

"Stuart, having quite a strong influence on John, I think, then that sort of affected the rest of the band and eventually they all cut their hair in that kind of mop top."

Sutcliffe and Kirchherr eventually fell in love and he left the group to be with her and pursue his art.

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Yoko Ono has revealed that she was initially dismissive of Sam Taylor-Wood's 2009 filmNowhere Boy. 


The biopic starred Aaron Johnson as a young John Lennon living in Liverpool, before his time in The Beatles.


In an interview with The Observer, Ono explained that she was sceptical when Taylor-Wood contacted her while filming the moving, seeking the rights to Lennon's song 'Mother'. 


"I thought, I'd like to see that film and was flabbergasted by it because it was so beautiful," the 79-year-old explained. 


"But I must have a very strong prejudice about Englishwomen because I thought, 'How can a woman make this thing?' It was a very bad way of reacting."


Taylor-Wood, 45, later married Johnson after an on-set romance. The couple recently welcomed a baby daughter named Romy.  


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(John and Yoko performing at the 'Free John Rally Now')

A lost recording of John Lennon and Yoko Ono celebrating the release of one of the Sixties' most famous "political" prisoners over the phone has come to light, just as he appears at an anniversary concert in London.

The Beatle has an area of New York’s Central Park devoted to him, aptly named Strawberry Fields. The 2.5-acre area between west 71st and 74th streets marks where Lennon was walking when he was shot dead in 1980. Strawberry Fields’ focal point is a black-and-white mosaic that spells out ‘Imagine’, after Lennon’s hit song. Fans lay flowers here and take a moment in this self-styled ‘Garden of Peace’ to reflect on their favourite star.


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