From this base Liz was regularly listed in the Top 20 of Venue Magazine’s annual Top 100 and was one of 8 people featured in HTV and Bristol Evening Post’s ‘Movers and Shakers’ TV series and newspaper feature. She was the sole subject of an HTV piece called ‘Forbidden Fashion’ - see link to videos on you tube page. She co-presented a live magazine style, news and fashion TV programme for Wire TV with UK/Ibiza DJ Tristan B. She also sold her own design collections annually to Agent Provocateur, the up-market lingerie store run by Vivienne Westwood’s son, Joe Corre.

During this time Liz did freelance lecturing in colleges around the South West and London, teaching fashion design, business studies and contextual studies, and co-headed a fashion course in Plymouth. Liz also did a Master’s Degree in Fashion, the objectification of women and the power play women employ with their bodies through dress, body modification and behaviour. Freelance work continued along side this, with Liz doing styling, casting and props for television graphics companies and advertising - including working for HTV, BBC, BDH, Hollywood Lovers, Mark Lamar’s Planet Showbiz, MTV, Green Light Entertainment, The Antique’s Show, The Talent Programme, Soul Night, Melody FM, cinema release film ‘Preaching to the Perverted’ and a BBC2 series on colour presented by Patrick Mower.

For 15 years Liz was responsible for Bristol’s longest running independent club night Spank, featuring themed film projections and fashion shows. The club night featured nationally on Jean Paul Gaultier’s Eurotrash and Normski & Janet Street Porter’s Youth TV show and in The Face and iD magazines. Back in Bristol Liz spoke for transgender rights at The Watershed and held fashions shows in The Arnolfini. Her fashion work is in the archives of both Bath Costume Museum and the V&A in London.

Moving on Liz and Zoff then turned their attentions to a derelict 100 ft Dutch barge which they purchased from Bristol Hell’s Angels. After a year of complete renovation and fit out the boat became Il Bordello Media Members only Arts Bar. Interior art work and marketing materials were provided by Jake Davis, the founder of Upfest , Europe’s largest street graffiti art festival, and custom toilet doors were created by Nick Walker. The 500 strong VIP guest list for the Massive Attack gig in Queen Square was hosted over a long weekend on the boat and in a line of Bedouin tents on the quayside. Banksy, Nick Walker, Portishead, Roni Size and Reprazent, Nick Warren and Jody Wisternoff of Way Out West fame frequented the bar, as did BBC and HTV directors, producers and actors, Aardman and Bolex Brothers animators and up and coming musicians, poets, performers, photographers and artists. It was a heady night time and post work mix of the creatively adventurous, edgy up and coming musicians and artists, media professionals, Hell’s Angels, chefs, mixologists and TV and Film presenters and actors.

Il Bordello hosted burlesque supper clubs, PR events, product launches, creative cooking and cocktail soirees, private parties for Bristol’s better known faces giving them a bit of privacy in this hidden gem and was the first bar in the UK to sell vapourised alcohol. Liz crossed paths with Siena Barnes, now a professional musician, conceptual artist and clothing collaborator with Hysteric Glamour, who promoted the burlesque and art shows on board Il Bordello. And great PR events and VIP after parties happened there along with spoken word nights, hosted by Annie McGann, where Hell’s Angels rubbed shoulders with TV stars and musicians and were persuaded to recite poetry and drink Prosecco out of fragile champagne flutes…

Now Mill End Mitcheldean - a self catering holiday house and team building venue, bringing together the pair's skills from these various projects and offering a weekend version of Il Bordello : Liz and Zoff have transformed a 600 year old disused village shop, pub and attached derelict barn and turned it into a fantastic holiday house with seating and sleeping capacity for up to 40. Mill End Mitcheldean is infused with the resonance of wood and seeped in their combined creativity, drawing on local lore and artisan forest skills. With the ancient woodland of the Forest of Dean right on the doorstep, it is the perfect out of town escape. An inveterate ‘networker’ and lover of linking people together, Liz has brought a bit of inner city Bristol urban buzz and graffiti art (Jody and FLX ‘Children of the Can’) to the beautiful Forest of Dean whilst encompassing all the local artisan food, drink and heritage crafts which exist within the surrounding ancient area.

And finally - Bordello Banquets - “A Riot of Colour, Rich in Taste”. Having ‘lost’ Bordello Arts Bar in Bristol via a legal battle with the boat’s tenants and some ambiguous and poorly written lease documents, the name and concept live on.

When you stay at Mill End or elsewhere locally you can have catering, entertainment and hospitality provided by Bordello Banquets.

Bordello Banquets is not a bog standard catering company - with Liz’s fashion background, the leanings are towards an immersive experience involving taste, sustainability, heritage and artisan methods, local production and knowledge and wellbeing with the emphasis as much on the visual feasting as the food itself - always with unusual props and constant care and concern for the environment and planet.

Come and STAY for FRIENDSHIP, FUN and TRAINING