Last night, the red carpet premiere for huge new film ‘Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie’ happened in Sydney, and seemed to go rather well, sweetie darlings.
However, some attendees seemed rather baffled by the speech made by Australian designer and co-host of ‘Australia’s Next Top Model‘, ‘glasses-on-head guy’ Alex Perry.
He came out swinging with a rather finger-pointy bit about cocaine use in the fashion industry:
“When you watch Ab Fab and you see Patsy coming out of the bathroom and she’s been ‘racking up’.Sorry ‘racking up’ is drug speak for people who do lines of cocaine, I googled that.There’s never as much mirth in it when someone from the fashion industry is watching it because we’ve been at functions and we’ve watched that person go relentlessly to the bathroom 12 times.No one pees that often. But whatever it takes to get you through the DJs [David Jones] fashion launch!”
Perry has been pretty outspoken about his opinions on department store David Jones after the catastrophic conclusion of their relationship around three years ago – they dropped his line from their stores around the country.
“We judge, but we get judged as well. We’re also inappropriate and there’s inappropriate behaviour that runs rife in the fashion industry.”
Be honest though – the funniest part of that swipe is Perry pretending that after 20+ years in the industry, he had to Google what ‘racking up’ meant. Righto.
However, the worst was yet to come.
He went on to talk about his relationship with the iconic 90s television show ‘Ab Fab’, from which the recent movie is continued. He decided to relate his intense passion for the show to an often-devastating lifelong developmental condition that affects approximately every 1 in 100 Aussies.
“Every time I go to Asia I watch [Absolutely Fabulous] on loop because the TV is so bad there, I mean I watch it on an autistic level.”
Perry made the bizarrely inappropriate speech in front of a huge audience at the Aussie premiere of the film at the packed State Theatre in Sydney.
Source: The Age.
Photo: Instagram / @alexperry007.
