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PEOPLE & ARTS Wednesday 5 June 2019
Brandon Maxwell, Rick Owens take top CFDA fashion awards

By JOCELYN NOVECK hadn't been prepared to
Associated Press win and sorely regretted
NEW YORK (AP) — Bran- having taken "full advan-
don Maxwell, the Texas- tage of the free bar." But
born designer known for he moved quickly from his
his longtime collaboration flustered beginning — "I
with Lady Gaga as well might pass out," he wor-
as for dressing other fa- ried — to an emotional and
mous women like Michelle eloquent speech noting
Obama, Oprah Winfrey, his admiration for his fellow
Meghan Markle and Nicole nominees, and describ-
Kidman, took top honors at ing the hard, unglamorous
the Council of Fashion De- work that designers do be-
signers of America awards. hind the scenes to make
Maxwell won the coveted their businesses work.
womenswear award at the "I am so proud to be part of
glittery ceremony at the an industry like this where
Brooklyn Museum Monday we wake up every day
evening. The menswear charged with the idea
award went to designer that making a woman feel
Rick Owens. good, that making some-
The evening also featured a one happy, is valid," he
number of special awards, Ashley Graham attends the CFDA Fashion Awards at the Brooklyn Museum on Monday, June 3, said, to cheers from the
including the high-profile 2019, in New York. crowd.
Fashion Icon award, which Associated Press "I worked for 10 years as a
went to Jennifer Lopez. The stylist before I started this
pop star choked up as she ange Ralph Lauren ensem- and the supermodel." gan to be embraced, the company and I know that
thanked the many people ble — he, too, hails from Designers like Oscar de la girl who wanted to com- you're kind people, that
who'd helped her achieve the Bronx, she noted — Lo- Renta, Versace, Gucci and bine street style with cou- you work hard, and we get
the dreams she had as a pez expressed gratitude others "allowed me to get ture began to blossom, and scrubbed up tonight and
young girl riding the 6 train to the many top designers into their designs ... to say I I'm grateful to all of you for put on a suit, but 364 days
from the Bronx into Man- who dressed her curvy fig- was a kid in a candy store that." a year we are trying to pay
hattan. ure, despite her coming to was an understatement. Maxwell, arriving at the the light bills and make it
Dressed in a sparkling or- fame in "the era of the waif And slowly, as curves be- podium, professed that he happen," he said.q

Pioneering psychedelic rocker Roky Erickson dies at 71

By MARK KENNEDY created his own musical
Associated Press galaxy and early on was
NEW YORK (AP) — Roky Er- a true inspiration," Gibbons
ickson, the blue-eyed, dark- said in a statement.
haired Texan who headed After the trippy 13th Floor
the Austin-based 13th Floor Elevators dissolved in the
Elevators, a pioneering face of drug arrests and
psychedelic rock band in instability, Erickson in the
the 1960s that scored with early '70s entered an insan-
"You're Gonna Miss Me," ity plea to a marijuana pos-
has died. He was 71. session charge and ended
Erickson's sinuous lead up spending some time in
guitar and wailing vocals an institution.
didn't turn him into a chart A short-lived effort to re-
topper, but they cemented unite the Elevators fol-
his role as a musician's musi- lowed. Erickson put out a
cian. Fans included every- book of poetry — "Open-
one from Lenny Kaye and ers" — and continued mak-
the Swedish metal group ing music, including the
Ghost — who covered his songs "Two Headed Dog"
"If You Have Ghosts" — to ZZ and the LP "The Evil One."
Top's Billy Gibbons. In 1986, he released the
A 1990 tribute album to Er- album "Don't Slander Me,"
ickson, "Where the Pyramid and a 2005 documentary
Meets the Eye," attracted by Keven McAlester about
the likes of R.E.M., T-Bone him was called "You're
Burnett, The Jesus and Gonna Miss Me." His later
Mary Chain, Julian Cope, albums include the mid-
The Mighty Lemon Drops, In this March 17, 2018 photo, Roky Erickson performs at the South by Southwest Music Festival in 1990s effort, "All That May
Primal Scream and ZZ Top. Austin, Texas. Do My Rhyme," and a 2010
Erickson's death on Friday Associated Press collaboration with Okkervil
was announced by his River, "True Love Cast Out
brother, Mikel Erickson, on by his agent, Dave Kaplan. death were not revealed. to contemplate a world All Evil."
Facebook and confirmed The cause and location of "It's almost unfathomable without Roky Erickson. He q