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volume 01 — issue 04 Neighbourhood Life + Global Style belgium lifestyle fashion design culture Gate Crashing Baggage Check Macadam Boulevard Handle with Care Bubble Superstar Do not throw on the public domain. — the ultimate getaway — editor's letter The Word is We had big, very big ideas for our Getaway issue. Zooming in on Nicholas Lewis the interiors of Belgium-bound private jets, getting an exclusive peak at the Eurostar’s heavy-guarded control room, Top-Gearing Advertising it down the airport’s runway or even spending a weekend with the Benoit Berben nation’s trucking cognoscenti were just some of the many ideas we threw around. Until, that is, we remembered that we merely were Editor-at-Large The Word. Hettie Judah Indeed, authorizations to get granted access to control rooms – Design even if only Gare du Midi’s – are hard to come by, Falcon owners Delphine Dupont are not too keen to publicize their ownership of gas-guzzling fl ying + pleaseletmedesign roadsters and airports didn’t, for some reason, warm up to the idea of The Word’s fashion pack descending upon their runways – a Photography / Illustration small concern regarding something called security apparently. Geneviève Balasse Erwin Borms Not to worry though, we found better alternatives… Sarah Eechaut Sarah Michielsen @ Outlandish For our Belgium section, we get a fi rst-hand account of the country’s Opération Panda most notorious prison escape and reminisce on the pride that is Yassin Serghini having a home-grown airline. We roam around a ghost town outside Gaëlle Sutour of Antwerp in a souped-up El Camino for our Fashion spread whilst our Design pages see us call-in products from L.A to Milan – we Writers couldn’t resist telling you - for our newspaper-wrapped design shoot. Alex Deforce Hettie Judah So whether it be behind your Mac screen in a dim-lit studio or with Nicholas Lewis a Strawberry Daiquiri on Salinas, make sure to enjoy these next Julien Mourlon two summer months. Just don’t forget to take The Word with you Séverine Vaissaud as it sure could do with a little sun. Randa Wazen See you back in September for our Delectable Foodie issue. Thank You’s Thibault Caizergues The Word is Yours. Karen Dacre Anna Machkevitch Melisande McBurnie Sue Munday Valérie Radelet Jean Jacques Radelet Mum & AJ Nicholas Lewis The Word is published six times a year by JamPublishing, 107 Rue Général Henry Straat 1040 Brussels Belgium. 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On this cover © Sarah Eechaut Good Vibrations THE FOURTH WORD — 5 contents page 1 Cover The Ultimate Getaway 2 Ad Absolut 3 Ad Absolut 4 Ad Burberry 5 Editor’s letter No4 6 Contents Page No1 You’re Looking at It 7 Ad Audi 8 Contents Page No2 The Page After This One 9 Ad Essentiel 10 Contributors It’s a Word’s World 11 Ad Instore 12 The Diary Our Post-it Page 13 The Diary Our Pick of Agenda Fillers – Belgium 14 The Diary Our Pick of Agenda Fillers – Belgium 15 Ad Bozar 16 The Diary Our Pick of Agenda Fillers - UK 17 The Diary Our Pick of Agenda Fillers - UK 18 The Diary Our Pick of Agenda Fillers – UK & Holland 19 The Diary Our Pick of Agenda Fillers – France 20 The Diary The Word’s Summer Festival Special 21 Ad Carpe Diem 22 The Getaway Papers Title Page 23 The Getaway Papers Fine Bedding 24 The Getaway Papers Walibibibi 25 The Getaway Papers Excuse Me While I Kiss the Sky 26 The Getaway Papers Royal Entry 27 Ad Ehsal 28 Belgium Prison Break 29 Belgium Prison Break 30 Belgium Prison Break 31 Ad Volvo 32 The Word On Caravans 33 The Word On Caravans 34 The Institution Mister Sabena 35 The Institution Mister Sabena 36 Three of the Best Miniature Getaway Cars 37 Three of the Best Miniature Getaway Cars 38 Showstoppers The Fugitives 39 Showstoppers The Fugitives 40 Showstoppers The Fugitives 41 Ad Aspria 42 Lifestyle Bag Lady 43 Lifestyle Bag Lady 44 Lifestyle Bag Lady 45 Ad Frey Wille 46 The Photo Album Seaside Belgium 47 The Photo Album Seaside Belgium 48 The Fashion Word Road Works 49 The Fashion Word Road Works 50 The Fashion Word Road Works 6 — THE FOURTH WORD contents page 51 The Fashion Word Road Works 52 The Fashion Word Road Works 53 The Fashion Word Road Works 54 The Fashion Word Road Works 55 The Fashion Word Road Works 56 The Fashion Word Road Works 57 The Fashion Word Road Works 58 The Gear The Great Outdoors 59 The Gear The Great Outdoors 60 From A to Z Taking the Lot 61 From A to Z Taking the Lot 62 From A to Z Taking the Lot 63 From A to Z Taking the Lot 64 Design Wrapper’s Delight 65 Design Wrapper’s Delight 66 Design Wrapper’s Delight 67 Design Wrapper’s Delight 68 Design Wrapper’s Delight 69 Ad Cerruti 70 Shelf Absorbed Booking your Getaway 71 Shelf Absorbed Booking your Getaway 72 Diner’s Check The Garden BBQ 73 Diner’s Check The Garden BBQ 74 Diner’s Check The Garden BBQ 75 Diner’s Check The Garden BBQ 76 Eye Opener Whilst You Were Sleeping 77 Eye Opener Whilst You Were Sleeping 78 Eye Opener Whilst You Were Sleeping 79 Eye Opener Whilst You Were Sleeping 80 Eye Opener Whilst You Were Sleeping 81 Eye Opener Whilst You Were Sleeping 82 The Word on the Street Color Me Bad 83 The Word on the Street Color Me Bad 84 The Word on the Street Color Me Bad 85 The Word on the Street Color Me Bad 86 The Word on the Street Color Me Bad 87 The Word on the Street Color Me Bad 88 The Word on the Street Color Me Bad 89 Ad The Word Subscribe 90 Ad Schweppes 91 Our Playlist Song We Listen To 92 Stockists …and others we Love 93 Ad Colophon 2009 94 Advertisers’ Round Up 95 Advertisers’ Round Up 96 The Last Word The New Generation Travel Agent 97 The Last Word The New Generation Travel Agent + BBF 98 What’s Next The Delectable Foodie Issue 99 Ad Peugeot 100 Back Cover Chanel 8 — THE FOURTH WORD contributors It's a Word's World Erwin Borms Lalo Gonzalez Photographer Photographer We’re suckers for anything Lalo’s on to big things, so we remotely linked to instant made sure to catch up with him photography –Polaroids more before he left our shores for precisely - and Erwin masters it brighter and bigger ones. A like no other. For our Getaway fashion photographer working issue, we asked him to photo- out of Brussels, we asked him graph the outer packaging of for a Steve McQueen/American outsized cargo consignments. road trip feel. He came back He delivered. with better, much better. — — Pages n° 62, 63 Pages n° 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57 Alex Deforce Writer The brains behind the excellent on-point.be website, our man Alex is one passionate and funk- Geneviève Balasse fuelled soulster, bringing his Photographer many fans the best in unedited, Geneviève is building quite high-browed and thought- some reputation for herself Julien Mourlon provoking video wizardry. as the portraitist-in-chief for Writer A journalist in the purest of Belgium’s burgeoning Hip Hop The Word contributor from forms, Alex is one of those cats scene. Be it concerts, MC bat- day one, Julien is a man of many you know will go places so we tles or jams, it seems her lens trades. Be it his eponymous had to catch up with him whilst is always fi rmly focused on the Laid-Back Radio Show or his we still could. In the back of a man – or woman – with the podcast-brilliant website of the stolen BMW that is. microphone. For The Word’s same name, our man can’t seem — summer getaway, we asked her to stay still for longer than a Pages n° 28, 29, 30 to shoot a travel agent. Don’t Guilty Simpson mix. For The ask, she simply was the best Word, he mainly specializes, suited to do so. with partner-in-crime Alex — Deforce, in the small yet Page n° 96 sublime and this month’s article on the country’s most infamous prison escape is no exception. — Pages n° 28, 29, 30 10 — THE FOURTH WORD the diary the diary The Next Few Weeks’ Agenda Fillers Belgium, As you’re about to notice, the Streuli manages to give a sense Belgian section of our diary of fragility to the protagonists took somewhat of a beating this in his pictures without omit- month. Rest assured though, this ting their busy backdrop, the is not – we repeat, not – be- city. For his exhibition at the cause of our country’s supposed Museum of Contemporary Art, cultural shortcomings. Quite the he makes judicious use of the contrary actually. We simply venue’s wide structures, thus thought that, this being our Geta- creating several different spaces way issue, we’d slightly tailor the and atmospheres. It has become agenda to reflect those cities we’re increasingly diffi cult to stay in likely to find you in over the sum- Brussels over the weekend and mer. And we’ll be back to our it seems that this exhibition will usual pickings in September.

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