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						THE KOSTIFFS by BLITZ MAGAZINE - MARCH 19866
				Michael  and Gerlinde Kostiff are regarded as one of the couples on London's niterie circuit, a fact that they're not necessarilly delighted with.  " I hate couples, "    Gerlinde complains, " because   they're always so boring together ..."  But certainly the two tend to work as a pair.  Michael's current profession, he says, in interior design, with assistance from Gerlinde.  "Basically though, I just do what people require.  NOw it turns out that everybody wants interiors."  One of his more recent professions,  however, was a photographer - he took the stunning photograph of Siouxsie on the December '84 BLITZ cover, and worked on the Banshees' live video and set design.  More recently he refitted Susanne Bartsch's  store in New York.  " It's in a 'Disco Gothic' style - wacky, unpredictable, freefall! "   It includes a revolving replica of the Mayflower set on a gold leaf sphere on top of an eighteen foot tall obelisk.  Freefall indeed.  At about  the same time they turned down an offer from New York's Details magazine to be Travel Editors.  " The problem was we couldn't bear  the thought of all the places we liked being filled with New Yorkers when we went back ..." But why so long a couple  !!! " When I first arrived in London from Bavaria,  I was lost in Piccadilly Circus and Michael took me sightseeing.  It turned out that he knew all athe real sleaze clubs.  So I knew he was for me ..." BLITZ MAGAZINE - MARCH 19866 KINKY GERLINKY MENU