Remembering Isabelle Oduber

 

 

My ex-Girlfriend Isabelle

Isabelle Oduber

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Illustrated by ANTONIO LOPEZ 

1984

My GIRL

Isabelle Oduber

Ellen Harth Agency

POSITANO The AMALFI COAST

COOKBOOK & TRAVEL GUIDE

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OSCAR d la RENTA

SPRING COLLECTION 1984

RUNWAY SHOW NEW YORK NY

PARSONS SCHOOL of DESIGN

Featuring : Isabelle Oduber, Dalma, Iman

OSCAR d la RENTA

Isabelle Oduber

1984

Isabelle Oduber

ELITE MODELS

 

 

 

 

 

 

STREETS of FIRE

 

 

Starring :  Michael Pare and Diane Lane

 

with Willem Dafoe

 

Theme Song :  I CAN DREAM ABOUT YOU

 

by Dan Hartman

 

 

 

 

 

My Ex-Girlfriend Isabelle

 

Posed for Famed Illustrator ANTONIO LOPEZ

 

For This Ad for OSCAR de la RENTA

 

1984

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JOHN WAITE

 

 

MISSING YOU

 

 

 

 

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[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkExjeUSCcQ&w=320&h=266]

 

 

 

MISSING YOU

 

 

John Waites

 

 

 

1984

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Missing You

 

ISABELLE

 

 

 

 

 

Missing You by John Waites was a favorite of my ex-girlfriend Isabelle, she really liked this song, and whenever I hear it, I immediately think of her, along with several other top hits of the time that Isabelle and I were going out togeter back in 1983 / 84 when I lived in the jumping East Village of 1980s New York.

 

Those were some great times. I was in my 20s and I thought I could conquer the World back then, and dating a top High Fashion Model who was with Ford Mosels and was also a House Model for Oscar de la Renta sure didn't hurt none. Yes the East Village abdd downtown New York was jumping then. This was the time of Madonna and the major art scene of Graffitti Artsist like, Keith Haring , Jean Michele Basquiat , Francesco Clemente , and otheer , who were among the hottest and biggest selling artist in the world at the time, including Andy Warhol who was still living and who took the young Basquit under his wings and even collaberated on a couple of projects together.

 

Yes, bacck then, I really felt as I could conquer the World. I was young and full of piss and vinegar as they say. I felt as though I could walk through brick walls. I woarked two jobs, I worked hard ad Played Hard, going out to the top Night Clubs of the day, like: Area, Danceteria, Carmelitas, Underchine, The Milk Bar, Palladium, all the hot bars, restuarants, and a lot of good private parties, a few of which were up at Isabelle 's apartment on 87th Street, sipping Champagne and eating Caviar which Isabelle could never get enough of, and she'd always bring back tins of the stuff from Petrossian ever time she did runway shows for the Pret di Port in Paris for the likes of designers Yves Saint Laurent , and Oscar de la Renta.

 

Wow, I started off talking about how this song by John Waite was one of Isabelle's favvorites, and I go off on a tagent on the 1980s, the East Village and the downtown New York art and party scene. Well they all do tie together you see. That's where Maddonna got started with Jellybean Benitez and others, dancing at Dancteria and Lucky Strike, private parties and what-not. She had her first Top 10 Hit with Holiday, although her first two singles Everybody and Burning Up did have pretty good sucess. Yes I was having quite a good time in the 80s, going out with girls, working, and playing with friends like my buddies Raoul, Drew, Jay, and my Buddy Bobby Martinez who was one of Madonna's famous Puerto Rican Boy Toys (I kid you not).

 

Well, back to some of the other music and Isabelle's favorite songs, like Hold Me Now by The Thompson Twins, TRUE by Spandau Ballet, Missing You and a slew of others. This is when MTV started out and Isabelle just loved that station. I remember spending whole nights with her drinking champagne and watching MTV as isabelle taped the videos on a VHS Recorder to make tapes of MTV Music Videos of Michael Jackson , David Bowie , The Police , and other artist to bring down to her friends and family in Caracas , Venezuela when she went for visits two times a year (her native country). 

 

To be Continued  ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PIPER-HEIDSIECK

 

 

Whenever I see a bottle of PIPER HEIDSIECK CHAMPAGNE, it always makes me think of Isabelle and the time she called me up at 10 in the morning and asked me if I wanted to come over and if I could stop and get a bottle of Champagne along the way. "Ah the Good ol Days. Champagne and Caviar at 11 in The Morning," it's not a bad way to start the day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Modeling Card of Isabelle Oduber

 

 

 

Caracas / New York Fashion Model

ISABELLE ODUBER on The RUNWAY

PARSONS SCHOOL of DESIGN

OSCAR de la RENTA

SPRING COLLECTION 1984

NEW YORK NY

Isabelle & Oscar

OSCAR d la RENTA

ISABELLE

Isabelle Oduber with Oscar d la Renta

Fall 1984 Collection

Runway Show Finale

Parsons School of Design

New York NY

La FINALE

OSCAR d la RENTA FALL COLLECTION 1984

NY NY

 

 

 

 

 

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Jean Michel Basquiat

1980s NEW YORK\

Downtown Art Scene

The WORLD

 

 

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KIETH HARING 'S Original RADIANT BABY 

 

Spawned the ArtFourm article RADIANT CHILD by Rene Ricard  

 

 

This article by Ricard made Graffiti Artis like Kenny Scharf, Keith Haring , and

 

Jean Michel Baquiat Famout Over Night

 

 

 

 

 

POET / WRITER 

  

RENE RICARD

 

 

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SUNDAY SAUCE

When Italian-Americans Cook

by Daniel Bellino Zwicke

 

 

BUY IT !.

PLACES ISABELLE & I WENT To

1980s

MAXWELL'S PUM

1st AVENUE NY NY

This PLACE was VERY POPULAR in The Late 1970s &

 80s NEW YORK

ISABELLE & I WENT THERE OFTEN

The OAK BAR

At The PLAZA HOTEL

NEW YORK CITY

Another of OUR FAVORITE SPOTS

 

 

PJ CLARKE'S

ONE of MY FAVORITES

"ISABELLE & I"

Art by Daniel Bellino

FINE ARTS AMERICA

 

 

 

"I CAN DREAM ABOUT YOU"

 

(Another on of ISABELLE'S Favorite Songs)

 

 

by Dan Hartman

 

 

From STREETS of FIRE

 

 

 

 

 

 

TRUE

 

Spandua Ballet

 

 

Another of my ex-girlfriend Isabelle Oduber 's favorite songs, and one that always brings me back and makes me think of Isabelle instantly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

OSCAR de la RENTA

 

 

 

 

EME Magazine .. October 2014

 

 

 

I met Oscar de la Renta on November 5, 1985. At that time I was already in the last year of the race in Parsons and that particular day would be the presentation of his spring 1986 collection in the auditorium of 560 de la Séptima. Avenue in New York.

He had been selected along with other classmates to work in the backstage helping with the organization and dressing the models before their departure on the catwalk.

As soon as I arrived and he saw me he said "You speak Spanish and I want you to get dressed and help Isabell", referring to Isabel Oduber , Venezuelan and house muse and model. 
I could not believe it, so he took me to the rack where his suits hung. There were exactly eight, twice what the other models would carry, among which were the great international mannequins of the time, the same ones that the Valentino's and Saint Laurents wore in Paris. I remember in particular Dalma, Betty Lago, Kirat, Marpessa Hennink, Amalia Vairelli and Nubia, another Venezuelan who was Lagerfeld's muse in Chanel, among so many other famous models.

 

ADRIANA TORAN

 

FROM EME Magazine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ISABELLE in HER ELITE MODELING DAYS

ISABELLE ODUBER

CARACAS / NEW YORK

Isabelle

Six Stages of Marlon Brando

 

6 STAGES of MARLON BRANDO

As  FLETCHER CHRISTIAN

MUTINY on The BOUNTY

1962

With WALLY COX

As TERRY MALLOY

On The WATERFRONT

1954

Directed by ELIA KAZAN

The WILD ONE

BRANDO as STANLEY KOWALSKI

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS 

"A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE"

Directed by ELIA KAZAN

1951

Marlon Brando

As DON VITO CORLEONE

The GODFATHER

1972

Directed by FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

Based in The Novel The GODFATHER  1969

MARIO PUZO

Marlon Brando with Maria Schneider

LAST TANGO in PARIS

1972

Directed by BERNARDO BERTELUCCI 

CLEMENZA'S 

GODFATHER SUNDAY SAUCE

RECIPE

From The GODFATHER

AMAZON.com

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Mark David Chapman is a Piece of Shit

 

JOHNLENNON was MURDERED

by The PIECE of SHIT MARK DAVID CHAPMAN

December 8th 1980

In front of his home The Dakota

On West 72nd Street

NEW YORK NY

Words of the Piece of Shit Mark David Chapman

"I JUST SHOT JOHN LENNON"

This is a PIECE of SHIT

Its name is MARK DAVID CHAPMAN

Yes, that’s right, Mark Daivid Chapman is a No Good Piece of Shit who should rot in Hell. “What? You say, who is Markd David Chapman?” Well for those of you who’ve never hear of this no good Piece of Shit, he’s the piece of shit or murdered John Lennon. Who’s John Lennon you say? Oh my God? Yes, many know, but I’m sure there might be some young people who may have never heard of him. Well for one, he was one member of The Fabe Four, the band known as The Beatles, widely considered one of the greatest bands of all-time, and certainly many people would say the greatest and most influencial bands of the 20th Century, and even now39 years after John’s death, the Beatles have produced some of the greatest music that is listened to since the recordings made in the 1960s, and some of the greatest music that people listen to (thanks to reccordings) in the 21st Century, a Century that has hardly produced any good music at all, but only God Awful garbage, that peopel have the nerve to call music. “It’s not,” it’s shit, I’m so sorry to say, but back to the great John Lennon, former Beatle and then astonishing solo artist who was prodcuing some of the greatest music of the past two centuries even recording on the day he died when he was assasinated in front of his house ( The Dakota) by the no good Piece of Shit bastard, No Good Motherfucker piece of garbage Mark David Chapman on Monday December 8th 1980 for no good reason other that he (Mark David Chapman) is a No Good Piece of Shit Miserable Piece of Shit no good Fucking Lowlife Fuck. “Am I making myself clear here? I hate that no good Piece of Shit Lowest Form of Life Mark David Chapman who is rotting in a prison for murdering John Lennon, leaving his young son Sean Lennon fatherless, and his wife Yoko a widow all because the no good Piece of Shit couldn’t deal with his shitty life, why did he have to kill John Lennon? Why? They say that he (Chapman) said that he was frustrated with John Lennon’s lifestyle and public statements. “So you shoot the guy, you no good fuck?” They say that that piece of Shit Mark David Chapman had delusions related to Holden Caufield in JD Salinger Cather in The Rye. “So you kill John Lennon, you no good Piece of Shit Asshole (Chapman). Why, you no good motherfucker?” I hope I’m making myself clear hear? “Mark David Chapman is a no good Piece of Shit.” He murdered John Lennon.

John Lennon was a English Musician, member of The Beatles, born Liverpool, England October 9, 1940.

President Trump video Says Thanks from Hospital

 

PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

President Trump makes a video at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington DC, to thank the American people for their support and Well Wishes toward him and the 1st Lady Melania. He thanks all of the World Leaders as well. He says that the Therapeutics are great and says, "They are like a Miracle from God. People criticize me, but I believe in them."

"I came here, I wasn't feeling so well. I'll be back. I think I'll be back soon. This is something that happened. It happened to millions of people all over the World."

"I just wanted to tell you I'm starting to feel good. You just don't know over the next period of a few days." 

"We're gonna beat this Corona Virus. Or whatever you want to call it."

I most of all appreciate what has been said by the American people most of all. I won't forget it. I Promise you."

The President actually started off by thanking all the Doctors and Nurses at Walter Reed Hospital, and said that it is the best in the World.

He said, "I just wanted to let you know, I'm feeling good."

The President kept thanking the American people over and over, and sound 100% sincere and grateful to the American people for their warm wishes toward him and First Lady Melania Trump. The President says the outpouring of Love toward him has been incredible, and he said, "I will never forger it." He also said it's a beautiful thing, and I very much appreciate it (the Well Wishes).

This is the Greatest Country in the World. I can't be locked up and isolated. They told me just to stay in my apartment in The White House, don't go out, don't see any people, don't even go into the Oval Office, "I can't do that he said."

Melania asked me to say something, the  respect she has for our country, the love she has for our country. She is doing well. I'm also doing well.

President Trump makes a video and posted it on his Twitter

President Trump 1st Lady Melania have Covid Virus Corona

 

1st Lady Melania Trump

and President Donald Trump have contracted Corona Virus Covid19

and are now in isolation in The White House, in Washington D.C.

 

At 1-am in the morning on Friday October 2, 2020 President Donald J Trump Tweeted on Twitter that he and the 1st Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for Covid19.

The President's exact Tweet was : @Flotus and I tested positive for COVID-19 . We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!

The President and The First Lady have received many "Well Wishes" from around the World, including ; Prime Minister Boris Johnson, 

Prime Minister of England BORIS JOHNSON Tweets : My best wishes to President Trump and the First Lady. Hope they both have a speedy recovery from coronavirus.

Vladimir Putin sent a Telegram to President Trump that read: "I hope that your inherent vitality, good spirits, and optimism will help you cope with the dangerous virus."

The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu Tweeted Well Wishes to The President

and First Lady Melania Trump

PM of Israel Netanyahu Tweeted :  "Like millions of Israelis, Sara and I are thinking of President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump and wish our friends a full and speedy recovery.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP Leaves MARINE 1

The President may very well have contracted the Corona Virus

Covid-19 from Hope Hicks

Barron Trump with father Donald trump and mother Melania

The Presidents's youngest son Barron Trump has Tested Negative for the Corona Virus,

but his mother Melania and father Donald J. Trump have both tested positive and have

contracted Covid-19 Corona Virus and are now under quarantine.

Barron's sister Ivanka trump and her husband Jared Kushner have both tested negative, as has

Vice President Mike Pence and his wife.

It is possible that President Trump may have contracted the Covid Virus on Marine 1 Helicopter from his aid Hope Hicks and then passed the Virus on to his wife Melania.

Former Vice President Joe Biden, President Trumps opponent in the 2020 Presidential Election in a little over a month, will be tested today for the Covid19 along with his wife Dr. Jill Biden as they were in close contact with President Trump at the Presidential Debate in Cleveland, Ohio this past Tuesday.