James Jeanette is a tranny who knows a thing or two about fashion, and he’s just opened his own store, Jennette’s. He first found fame wearing skintight rubber Gareth Pugh dresses when he used to man the door at Boombox and all those other places that fashion people go to feel cool. A Scottish-born council estate boy, Jeanette is from Aberdeen, just like Annie Lennox, who he dressed up as once at a fashion big-wig’s cross-dressing-themed birthday party. That kind of sealed his fate as an icon because a cross-dresser cross-dressing as a cross-dresser = fashion hero. He held the launch party on Tuesday. It ruled.
Like all decent trannies, Jeanette is a bit magic. All he needs to do is wrap a towel round his head, put a swagger on, pull some insane poses and suddenly Hackney Road looks like fashionville, even if you’re eating a kebab with your feet. Basically, his first shop was always going to be good and being soooo fashion, Jeanette had no problem calling on the likes of Louise Grey, Kim Jones, Christopher Kane, James Long and Richard Nicoll to knock out one-off designs and never-on-sale-before-limited-editions for his customers: trannies, the sort of girls trannies want to be, and boys who should be in bands.
Roy on the left has the longest nipples you have ever seen, he’s also fond of wearing silver mini-dresses.
The MC.
Obviously Bethnal Green has turned into Switzerland and there are no stabbings or muggings for the police to attend, just tranny fashion parties.
Maybe the police thought this undercover guy would blend right in. Cute.
Check out Jeanette’s here:
64-66 Redchurch Street
London
E2 7DP
PHOTOS: JAMIE TAETE
WORDS: FM2030
PS: Fun Jeanette fact. He even caught Mark E. Smith’s eye. Here he is in the “Fledermaus” video for Smith’s side project, Von Sudenfed.
Reader Comments
June 11th, 2009
11:19 pm
Trannies are fucking gay.
June 12th, 2009
11:37 am
If you can’t say anything nice then please don’t say anything at all.
June 12th, 2009
2:02 pm
The sooner James- Jeanette gets on the next train/ flight/ whatever to Aberdeen+ swallows a square meal at his family home, the better quite frankly for us all - he’ s shocking to behold+ clearly the late nights, drugs, booze+ heavy make- up are talking their toll. Seems to me that these so called ‘ICONS’ seek to acquire the mantle of the late great Leigh Bowery, Candy Darling, A. W., Trojan, Amanda Lear et al. Well I’ m sorry - but it’ s far too heavy for their boney shoulders! Wantonly stealing from the past is not creativity+ in my opinion they don’ t have a creative bone in their body. And it’ s not fashion+ it’ s not pioneering - it’ s freakery for the sake of it! VICE shouldn’ t encourage this patent nonsense!
June 12th, 2009
8:33 pm
DUFUS…YOU NEGATIVE FREAK !!!! LIFE DARLIN’ …GET ONE!
AND S.C AKA SANCTA MOANY-US C*NT…
BEGONE OH USELESS WASTREL …HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
SHOP JEANNETE UNDER YOUR TRANS-PARENT SKIN ALREADY…YOU MUNTER !!!! DARLIN’ I CANT IMAGINE LEIGH ENTERTAINING YOU FOR A MOMENT, UNLESS IT WAS TO RIDICULE YOUR OWN JUDGEMENTALISM…WHAT DO YOU DO ?
OH YES ..YOU M-O-A-N…YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWN
C YA NEXT TUESDAY X X X
GO JEANETTA !!!!
June 13th, 2009
10:23 am
Ye can take the tranny oot the council hoose, but ye canny take the council hoose out the tranny.
But seriously folks, the “poor Scottish boy from a council scheme escaping to the big city” is about as hackneyed as it gets.
p.s. This chap needs 50cc of clearasil, STAT!
June 13th, 2009
11:33 am
JEANETTE - Do you take AMEX???
June 13th, 2009
2:19 pm
HOW HILAAAAAR YOU ARE MR BUTTO FUCKO- ITS MORE SHOREDITCH THAN HACKNEY…
HILAR HILAR HILAR HOW SOMEBODY FABULOUS OPENS A SHOP & YOU BECOME SO AFFECTED…
June 14th, 2009
12:45 am
well I think a fabulous
June 14th, 2009
4:46 pm
This shop and its customers embodies everything diseased and pretentious about London.
‘ITS MORE SHOREDITCH THAN HACKNEY…’ LOL
so its more kewl?
Saying that, I am impressed he managed to open a shop on a tranny’s wages!
June 14th, 2009
11:23 pm
oh luv a play on words…
diseased and pretentious…its a shop, a shop i tell thee, a simple shop
umm so you know what a trannys wages are do you,
… who cares????
green green green
June 15th, 2009
1:45 pm
looks like a good place to buy new clothes.
looks like an interesting guy/gal who owns the shop.
looks like a lot of people are looking too much into the opening of a new shop.
chill the fuck out.
June 15th, 2009
7:52 pm
“… I am impressed he managed to open a shop on a tranny’s wages!”
LOL
June 16th, 2009
1:07 pm
jeanette is just a talentless sycophant, well done.
June 16th, 2009
11:24 pm
MMMmmm…
none of you are brave enough to leave a contact name or email address connected to your facile, redundant comments
shame on you…it’s easy to attack under cover isn’t it.
Congratulations to JEANETTES and all who shop in her.
E. Miarse
June 18th, 2009
11:22 am
Every time someone does something that is a bit different there will be lots of people who look at themselves and subconsciously either hate themselves cause they’re too scared to break the mold or else lash out cause they’re afraid that their comfort zone in front of the TV reading a vice wearing distressed jeans from 2004 eating chips will somehow be challenged.
This mentality unfortunately exists in every segment of the population, even in alternative segments, where they find comfort in a version of “alternative” they know but hate another alternative they don’t know.
In the end, it is this mentality that has also generated the blackest spots on our history, including the holocaust, the genocide in Rwanda, etc., etc., because it is afraid of thinking for itself and doing something different than the comfort zone it knows. “Followers” is what we call them. Sometimes “Sheep”.