“they’re just fucking beige”
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This week
💦 Julien Ceccaldi’s runway moment
💦 “a fantastically unattainable life–beautiful, yet impossible”
💦 tousle-haired youngsters cavorting around the Portobello Road
Events
A chic week for you all ! We’re torn between lit and Carlos Ishikawa on Wednesday but will be beetling down south for RIP Germain’s intriguing Cabinet solo on Thursday… finishing the week off with what looks to be a gorgeous show at Mackintosh Lane on Saturday… or should we pack some sandwiches and hop on the train to Margs for what will no doubt be a classy little number at Roland Ross??? Decisions decisions!
🧊 12 March | 6-8pm | Book launch: Poppy Jones, Tenderbooks [Covent Garden]
🧊 12 March | 6-8pm | Richard Sides: Psychology, Carlos Ishikawa [Mile End]
🧊 12 March | 7pm-12am | Soho Reading Series, readings by Sophie Kemp, Molly Pepper Steemson, Ella Fox Martens, Yoel Noorali, hosted by Hannah Regel, @ Betsey Trotwood, 56 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3BL [Farringdon]
🧊 13 March | 6:30-8:30pm | R.I.P. Germain: Anti-Blackness is Bad, Even in the Parts That We Like, Cabinet [Vauxhall]
🧊 14 March | 6-8pm | Sarah MacKillop: Meanwhile…, Final Hot Desert [Haggerston]
🧊 15 March | 2-8pm | HACK&COPE, including Michael Dean, Lou Hubbard and Susan Jacobs, Mackintosh Lane [Homerton]
🧊 15 March | 4-7pm | Ian Homerston: Paintings, Roland Ross [Margate]
Hot links
🧥“The wax jacket has long been a favourite of country cosplay” - Clive Martin dives into the current cultural status of the Barbour Jacket via Steve Bannon, The Beckhams, Alexa Chung, Rishi Sunak and “tousle-haired youngsters cavorting around the Portobello Road”. Pair with bootcut jeans to give divorced dad x
🐣 “The décor includes books on Bertolt Brecht and an accordion” - Hugh Corcoran, head cook at The Yellow Bittern, the Irish peasantcore restaurant that is igniting the cultural wars in London (for it’s authoritarian regime about how much one should eat imbibe and spend on weekday lunchtimes), has finally crossed the pond via an interview (and photoshoot, darling!) in The New York Times…
☄️ “‘Cicciolina’ itself is…a nonsense word… that means ‘cuddly’ or ‘pinchable’” - Cicciolina, the iconic porn star and former muse of Jeff Koons, has given i-D an interview (tied to her new memoir - ADD TO CART), where she discusses her turbulent divorce, legal battles, career as an elected politician, child abduction, and naked photos with Mr Balloon Dog. hot! X
🐚 “It’s probably not fucking swearing, is it?” – To mark the release of Dannny Dyer’s latest film, Marching Powder, our lord and saviour, the pearly king of the East End gives an interview with GQ, discussing the lack of opportunities for working class creatives, Harold Pinter, and why he’s “too real” for fame.
🐈⬛ “It’s something to do with capitalist individuation” – As the dust settles on Paris fashion week, Joanna Walsh questions the role of the catwalk–as a public/private space, as a site of horror and militaristic displays of power.
💳 “Credit Crunch-core” – In the latest round of using fashion trends to try and predict economic growth, Dazed announces that the Alexander McQueen skull-print is BACK, and that, errr, we should all be panicking. Released in 2003, the iconic skull print was the print of the late noughties, and thus brings back memories of flip phones, hobo bags and the subprime mortgage crisis.
Add-to-cart
But spittle, what do I wear for Berlin Gallery Weekend? We hear you ask… the answer is Ottolinger Fall 2025 x Julien Ceccaldi, gorgeous darlings x
Parting Shot
Since the 2022 Balenciaga controversy, which saw Matthew Barney and Michael Borremans getting dragged on the internet, the TikTok sleuths have kept on sleuthing, and have recently emerged with another batshit theory, this time involving Salma Hayak, Putin and Jake and Dinos Chapman…enjoy!
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