October 10, 2009
Time out Grayson Perry
The eccentric artist talks about happiness, headscarves and why he loves frocks but hates fashion
Janice Turner
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/men/article6866732.eceGrayson Perry is regretting his wardrobe choice. It is a drizzly North London morning and he had a tiresome errand to run at the post office. So he threw on jeans, a white T-shirt and a cardie as dull as the weather. "Oh, I should have worn my lovely new mac!" he exclaims. "It's short and creamy, with cut-out fabric snowflakes. Kind of Nordic. It's covered in this really stiff plastic and embroidered over the top. It really suits me! And it's really stiff! I've been dying for it to rain."
Perry gets far more animated talking about his ->-bleeped-<- attire than his new masterwork. As we walk the length of his extraordinary Walthamstow Tapestry, a 15m-long depiction of how consumer brands dog our journey through life — from Pampers nappies to Co-op funerals — he shuffles along, hands in pockets, laconic and low-key.
