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This season LFW celebrates it’s 25-year
anniversary. Bringing us the best cutting edge fashion
year on year, autumn/winter ‘09 also brings us William
Tempest’s debut stand-alone show. Tempest is quickly
becoming one of the most sought after names in p o r t r a i t s
the industry, with celebrity fans like Emma Watson Gerhard Richter is often

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and Jasmine Guinness; this is very much just the
beginning. Last year he graduated with first class
honours from LCF with a final collection inspired by
S y m p o s i u m 2 0 0 9 1940s film noir. And at the fresh young age of 22,
he already has worked with Giles Deacon and Jean
regarded to be one of “the worlds
leading contemporary artists” and
never before has there been an
exhibition solely dedicated to his
portraits. Richter has a particu-

www.myspace.com / secretgardenparty.
The London Zine Symposium is an Charles De Castelbajac. Tempest’s show at fashion larly unconventional approach to
annual event that brings together people who are week was nothing short of spectacular. The theme of portraiture, painting from photo-
interested in small press, comic and radical writing his collection screamed “all things Tudor”: he used graphs that he has either found
to celebrate the DIY and zine culture. People can printed fabric adorned with images of diamonds, or taken himself. His work can
buy or sell zines, share ideas with each other and pearls and Henry VIII. Combining those elements broadly be described as something
T h e A r t o f A r c h i t e c t u r e thus strengthen the DIY network and community. he produced dramatic designs that cinched in waists between photorealism and abstrac-
The first major exhibition dedicated to the The event also includes stalls, guest speakers, with corset style tops, exaggerated hips with billowing tion; by blurring his images, his
revolutionary architect in London for over 20 years is being discussion groups, film screenings, workshops skirts, and challenged yet highlighted femininity with work explores and questions the
showcased at the Barbican Art Gallery. Widely recognized and of course, lots of vegan cake! This year there sharp tailoring. All finished to absolute 100 per cent way we perceive our surround-

as the most influential architect of the 20th century, Le
Corbusier was also a well known thinker, writer and artist.
The exhibition follows his radical designs and how they
changed and developed over the years: from his Purist villas
of the 1920s to his civic buildings in India in the 1960s.
The exhibition includes original photographs, models and
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is a “build a zine from the day” project where wearable perfection. William Tempest’s theatrical ings. The collection consists of
people can contribute a page and then the zine collection has definitely secured himself as one of the his paintings from the 1960s to
will be printed and distributed at the event. Now “Best of British”, and is without question one to watch present, many of which have not
in its 5th year, it is still the best place to discover for the rest of the year. been shown together before.
some of London’s most talented underground www.williamtempest.com Gerhard Richter Portraits @ The
illustrators and finest small press publications. National Portrait Gallery, London

Le corbusier.
drawings, as well as important work from his collaborators: 3rd May 2009 12pm-6pm The Rag Factory, WC2H 0HE, 26th February – 31st
Fernand Léger and Charlotte Perriand to name but a few. 16-18 Heneage Street London E1 5LJ http:// May 2009 www.npg.org.uk
The Art of Architecture @ The Barbican Art londonzinesymposium.lasthours.org.uk
Gallery, London EC2Y 8DS, 19th February –

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24th May 2009 www.barbican.org.uk

Set in the picturesque countryside of Cambridgeshire,

the invisible
the Secret Garden Party is hosted on the 100-acre site of an old
Georgian farmhouse. The “garden” boasts it’s own lake, river and
landscaped gardens, and a mass cult following of “gardeners” that
have helped the festival expand from the first 1000 gardeners that
Taking their “musical magic to the masses”, The attended in 2004, to the 6500 capacity in place today. Last year,
Invisible release their long awaited self-titled debut album on the SGP stages saw the likes of Morcheeba, Lykke Li and Sons and
the 2nd of March. What started off as a solo project at the end Daughters run riot in the countryside. This year’s theme of Eden and
of 2006, brought three friends together to create a mesmerizing Babylon promises even more wacky theatre, parades, installations
electronic sound that brought them to our attention. They have and performances. Being one of the few festivals with no corporate
been chosen to support Doves and Foals on their forthcoming sponsorship, gardeners are encourage to run free and do as they wish;
UK tour, and Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard has remixed their single this often involving fire juggling, giant car games and human tetris.
“London Girl”. The band’s combination of exquisite musicianship It came to no one’s surprise when this festival picked up the “Best
and song writing has secured them as one of the best newcomers Small Festival Award” last year.
of 2009. Do not miss them live at London’s Cargo May 12th. The Secret Garden Party 2009 , 23rd – 26th July.
www.myspace.com/theinvisiblethree www.secretgardenparty.com

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