So when I was looking into things for my earlier post on SH attending TWC’s party in 2011, I posted the above photo of her with Max Osterweis. And I was intrigued by it, because nowhere had I read that they might have dated and googling Osterweis brought up the fact that he is married. So no obvious romantic relationship, yet close enough to accompany each other to galas and events and for pictures like the one below to exist.
Osterweis is a fashion designer, which is fine, but what’s the connection here? I didn’t really bother looking for an answer but then, last night while researching Gambles, it appeared, unbeckoned.
Some backstory- Matthew Daniel Siskin, aka Gambles, was once upon a time married to a girl called Taylor Thomas. As we can see in the Guardian article, their story was ultimately a tragic one:
And most particularly, there is his unnamed ex-wife: it was their marriage, their divorce, the loss of their child and the loss of his mind that inspired so many of Trust’s songs.
But back in 2009 or so, things were happier. Taylor owned a showroom in SoHo and did fashion interviews, such as the one above, wherein she discloses that she absolutely loves fashion label Suno. And who’s the founder of Suno? Why, Max Osterweis, of course. Not only that, but Osterweis was one of Gambles’ groomsmen at his and Taylor’s wedding.
Then, at some point, SH appears in NYC and the rest, as they say, is history.
Quick sidenote here, though I’m afraid it would be better to draw this than to write it:
One of Gambles’ best friends is Eloise Fornieles, one of the bright young artsy fucks mentioned in the Conrad Shawcross article I posted a while back. SH, Eloise and Gambles are all very close friends. Once upon a time, Eloise was married to David Birkin, who not only actually is Jane Birkin’s nephew (unlike SH, lol), but is also apparently one of BC’s best friends, if we believe the man himself:
“It’s an extraordinary legacy that truly befits the beautiful soul of its namesake, Anno Birkin. His brother David Birkin is one of my dearest and closest friends and through him I was lucky enough to meet and be inspired by Anno.”
So close, in fact, that BC donated one of his Spencer Hart suits to the charity founded in Anno Birkin’s memory back in September 2014. Anyway, Eloise and David – who’s also an artist, natch- were happily married until Eloise left him for playwright Polly Stenham who, get this, was the blonde rumoured to have been the cause behind Robert Pattinson’s break-up with Kristen Stewart. Of course, Gambles was around for that fun evening in 2013, too, just as he had been a year earlier when Hipsterbatch touched down on Coney Island in June 2012. And how can we forget that Polly attended the Flaunt Magazine party hosted by BC just this past October? Such connections, much wow!
What I"m trying to say here kids, is that this is more incestuous than a fucking Greek drama and it’s basically a vapid artsy clusterfuck in which BC is not just a bystander, but a full participant. I know most of us know the majority of what I’ve outlined above, but I’m just trying to connect everything together. And I’ll expand on all of this more at a later point when I’m not literally falling asleep while typing, because that’s how exhausted I am right now.
I’m really curious, though, what Eloise and Polly and the rest of them would have to say about Sophie suddenly going from being an artist to posing on the red carpet with Cumberspawn in her belly…
Correction: Cumberpillow, but the rest still stands…