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CAPITAL GAINS What to do in London 1 BY FRANKIE MCCOY JUNIPER AND JALFREZI 3 Curry and gin are two of the most 2 Dunkirk beautiful words in the SPIRIT English language. AFRO BEATS Poignant, brutal films They’re also what Neil London does a very cool line that force you to reflect Rankin’s second Temper in multiculturalism, and the on the horrors of the restaurant specialises fantastically soundtracked — Second World War are in. Meatball marrow and fabulously dressed — always easier to bear masala and artisan Afropunk Fest at Printworks in when they star some of London dry? Neil, you Rotherhithe is definitive proof. Hollywood’s hottest legend. Opens 24 July Come for the music — Willow male stars. Tom Hardy, (temperrestaurant.com) Smith (right), Jme, Cosmo Pyke — Cillian Murphy, Fionn and stay for the insane Whitehead (above) and costumes, food and after- — oh yes — Harry Styles parties. Tickets from £45. star in Christopher 22-23 July (afropunkfest.com) Nolan’s latest epic, Dunkirk. Out 21 July

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21.07.17 ES MAGAZINE 5 UPFRONT Laura Craik on the loss of a shopping wonderland, the woes of her crumpled Audi and the unnerving new Kim Simone Rocha and olette is closing and it feels like the end of Christopher something bigger than a chic Parisian Kane boutique. It feels like the end of imagination and independence; another death knell for storesC not owned by Inditex, the Perssons or a global luxury conglomerate. Saint Laurent is in talks to take over Colette’s plum Rue Saint-Honoré location, which is good news, and infinitely better than an estate agent. But there won’t be trainers you’ve never seen, music you’ve never heard, books you’ve never read, scented pens, designer fidget spinners, mini laser guns or a water bar selling 100 different types of bottled water. To anyone wondering why I’m lamenting the loss of a Paris boutique in a London magazine: since its doors opened in 1997, Colette’s support of young British designers has been unwavering. Christopher Kane, Simone Rocha and Mary Katrantzou are but three of hundreds of London labels — many now shuttered — who owe co-owners Colette Rousseau and her daughter, Sarah Andelman, a world of gratitude. Unlike many department “Colette was the opposite of stores, Colette never bought the ‘safe’ clothes. It #basic. Lord knows #basic was one of the few boutiques with the balls to buy needs an opposite these days” a designer’s most esoteric pieces. It was the opposite of #basic. Lord knows #basic needs an opposite these days. London is so lucky to have Dover Street Colette Rousseau Market — a rare destination, like Colette, where and Sarah all things rich, strange and beautiful can have a Andelman platform. If you have the money, buy. If you don’t have the money, window-shop and make your heart sing. ‘Colette cannot exist without Colette,’ says Andelman, explaining that after 20 years, BANGERS AND CRASH her mother wants to retire. It closes as it My husband pranged the opened as it lived: with rare integrity. car on Monday. ‘What HOT have you done now, THE GIVENCHY WILD KARD mum?’ said the man who CAT COLLAR As seen in the teaser ad Kim Kardashian has been spotted (left) came to tow her. ‘Sheesh with your sexism — for the first Givenchy with a vintage Prada nylon handbag. just promise me you’ll look after Audrey,’ collection under Clare Waight Keller I can deal with her dripping in I told him. Audrey the Audi is the love of my life. current-season catwalk, because that Everyone told me I should buy an old banger; that in is her function, but when she starts London, it was folly to drive a new car, what with the getting all clever-clever, I’m like: narrow roads and even narrower parking spaces. But NOT ‘LADIES AND ‘Back off and leave this to the who wants to drive an old banger? Besides, compared GENTLEMEN’ fashion nerds.’ Now that she has with Kate Moss’s £265,000 Rolls-Royce Dawn (model Not gender neutral parted with longtime stylist above), Audrey is quite modest. She’s currently in enough, says TFL: Tube passengers will now be Monica Rose, I’m wondering Veetec garage, Neasden, and I’m in a courtesy car. greeted with, ‘Good who’s behind this sudden and new- ‘We’ve given you an upgrade,’ said morning, everyone’ found love of obscure, anti- Enterprise, presenting mainstream accessories. Kanye? With his me with a giant taste for Off-White, Vetements and Hyundai I’m anything made of sweatshirt/canvas/ terrified to park. sanforized Japanese denim, it wouldn’t Which got me surprise me. Forget Sex Tape Kim: we’re in wondering: what is the a weird new age of Utilitarian Kim. perfect London car? Frankly, I’m not ready. Probably a bike. Josh Shinner; Getty; Shinner; Alamy Josh Rex;

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Wickstead, Alice Jade performances while Zawe Temperley and Mary Parfitt Ashton and Matilda Lowther Nicholas Kirkwood Katrantzou gathered to devoured yellowfin tuna tartare sip gin in celebration of a with tamari, compressed charity fashion auction of cucumber, radish and frozen artwork, all inspired by the yuzu so beautiful it deserved sandals. A real shoe of love. its own exhibition.

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Playing a Baltimore cop in The Wire made Dominic West a star — but The Affair turned him into a sex symbol. He talks to Jonathan Heaf about nude scenes, playing Alicia Vikander’s father and why he’s happy to be objectified

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arly morning in Shoreditch and ‘funny — although I’m not sure how well the Dominic West and I are trying not American audience took it. They think the word to burn our lips on coffee as hot as “arse” is terribly crude — you have to say “ass” or molten steel. We’re in an old pub they get fairly puritanical. But it became sort of Ethat, quite clearly from the decor an in joke with Ruth…’ The arse or the ass? ‘Both, (big game hunter’s lodge crossed I suppose. We had to do so many bonking scenes with Soho House), has gone the way of so many in The Affair that there was always a battle of the edgier places out east and been upcycled into between us over who was going to go on top. If a member’s bar. you’re on the bottom, you don’t have to take your ‘Bloody gentrification,’ West mock-grumbles. clothes off or show anything. And Ruth always ‘This was once my old stomping ground… I went to bloody won.’ Guildhall School of Music & Drama — I was here Shooting the sex scenes in the show — in which before the trendy haircuts and bike shops. I was he plays a writer who has an affair with a waitress, thinking about this on the way here in the cab: back played by Wilson — is, he says, ‘absurd. I have to then it was a total s***hole.’ wear a sock over my bits for a start.’ What kind of West, I’ll soon realise, has very little in the way sock? ‘Well, an actor-y sock thing — there was one of a verbal filter. The 47-year-old star ofThe Wire that was like a jockstrap, but all of them are and The Affair is also an absolute riot, even at 8am, ridiculous.’ One they nicknamed ‘The Beast’. ‘A lot and will talk about sex with more candour than of the time the girl is wearing stick-on patches on perhaps anyone I’ve ever interviewed, including her nipples which are also ridiculous. You look like Mickey Rourke — which may be just as well, given sexless dolls. It’s farcical. In your supposed moment the amount of time he spends stripping off on of passion you have a guy with a boom going, screen. In accepting her Golden Globe for The “Could you just move slightly to your left, mate?” Affair, his co-star Ruth Wilson dedicated part of Then you’ve got some other poor sod putting make- her speech to him, saying, ‘Your arse is something up on your bum.’ It doesn’t sound very sexy, I say. of great beauty.’ West found the compliment ‘It’s not, it’s very agricultural. It’s like giving

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KENT AND CURWEN shirt, £200 (kentand curwen.com). BURBERRY coat, £1,495 (burberry.com) winning Alicia Vikander in the hotly antici- pated reboot of Tomb Raider. I tell West I was surprised that Tomb Raider had been green lit for a reboot; and gob- smacked when it attracted such acting talent as Vikander and himself. For most West and his wife, Catherine the video game turned movie franchise Fitzgerald conjures up images of a cartoonishly sexualised Angelina Jolie, the augmented breasts, hot pants and ponytail like a bull whip — all very Loaded magazine. ‘Well I was wondering about that before we began filming,’ agrees West. ‘They have definitely modernised it — Alicia doesn’t have ludicrously pumped-up breasts. It’s not so chauvinistic, which may come as a dis- appointment to some…’ The film sees Vikander play Lara Croft ‘before she becomes the Tomb Raider as we all has four children with film producer “WE HAD SO MANY BONKING know her. She’s a bike courier with Bruce Catherine Fitzgerald, a woman he dated SCENES IN THE AFFAIR THAT Wayne tendencies. It’s the origin story. I have at university then fell in love with all over to say when I found this out I said, “Well again after a break. He also has a daughter, THERE WAS ALWAYS A BATTLE maybe she gets a big pair of boobs from her Martha, from a previous relationship with BETWEEN US OVER WHO WAS dad on her 21st birthday?’’’ West’s deep laugh- Polly Astor (the daughter of the late Tory MP GOING TO GO ON TOP” ter fills the room. ‘No, no I’m going to get into Michael Astor). trouble. Alicia was never going to take the job Though he says being in his 40s is ‘much know the way one sees oneself is at times in if it was all tits and hot pants. So this Tomb better’ than being in his 20s (‘you have more contrast to the reality.’ Raider is cool rather than being objectified.’ money for a start’), he admits his slight Perhaps West is being too modest. After West doesn’t play the romantic lead but panic at the sort of roles he’s being offered. all, he says he does still get wolf-whistled, Croft’s father. It’s the second time he has been ‘Next up I am playing Keira Knightley’s hus- which he describes as ‘wonderful. It’s The cast as Vikander’s dad, also appearing in band [in Colette]. Great, I thought, a chance Affair of course, I won’t take the credit. The Testament of Youth. Does it prick his ego when for my youthful, leading man swagger to breadth of people who are into it is staggering. he’s not cast as the heroic come back a bit. I We were filming in New York recently and lover? ‘Yes it hurts. It does went to the costume this bunch of doddery 70-year-olds streamed and anyone who says it department expect- past us and one of them shouted, “Keep it up!” doesn’t is lying. Although ing to get something It’s amazing what the older generation get up it’s a great privilege that snappy and I was fit- to in those nursing homes nowadays with someone as beautiful as ted for a fat suit and Viagra and a bit of dirty telly. If I’m relieving Alicia should be descended a bald cap. I thought, the boredom, I’m glad I can help out.’ from me.’ Off screen, he West with Julia Roberts, Amal and “How unfair”. You Jonathan Heaf is features director of ‘GQ’

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New WOLDS order Once the Cotswolds was all muddy wellies and kitchen suppers — but an influx of glamorous new arrivals is shaking things up. Charlotte Edwardes decodes the shifting power dynamics in London’s honorary borough

ucked away on a back lane the approximate width of a Range Rover and a half is the unassuming gate to Elisabeth Murdoch’s farm. Also on the property is an enormous purpose-built party barn almost as big as TWestminster Hall. Here, this weekend, guests will converge from all over the Cotswolds — an area that is to Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire what Kurdish territory is to Iraq and Syria — to celebrate her wedding to the artist Keith Tyson. What is interesting is not the bash itself — although if swells in popularity, so it her £500,000 New Year’s party is anything to go by it absorbs more of west London, will be a monster with Diptyque candles the size of buckets so the tribes subdivide. On — but the tribes in assembly. This is one of those rare Friday evenings Range Rovers occasions (like the Cornbury Festival on the Great Tew stretch the length of the M40, Estate) where representatives from across the adjoining now dubbed ‘the west London Princess Olympia of Greece and counties will congregate like sultans in the pre-war corridor’, to this patch of a friend at her 21st birthday Arabian desert. It’s where the shifting spheres of power England 25 miles can be read broadly in terms of who has the across and 75 miles long. ‘It used to be proper biggest parties and the most influential friends. countryside,’ grumbles one early settler. ‘Now it Murdoch’s ‘party barn’ has on other evenings is a suburb of London.’ hosted David and , Indeed. David and Victoria Beckham , David Baddiel, Charles have joined the ranks of weekend migrants, and Celia Dunstone, Tessa Jowell and her buying a £6.15m ‘barn’ on the Great Tew husband David Mills, Eric Fellner, Hugh Estate from Nicholas Johnston — a school Grant, Jimmy Carr and TV presenter Elisabeth friend of . It’s a far cry Richard Bacon to name a few. Somehow Murdoch from Beckingham Palace in 1999. ‘You’d and Keith the industries of politics, media, business, Tyson struggle to call it a mansion,’ says a local film, art and fashion can co-exist under the resident. ‘It’s an ordinary, medium-sized Kate Moss out in the Cotswolds with spell of a thumping DJ with cocktails on farmhouse’ not far from Soho Farmhouse, her dog Archie tap. But it’s a mistake to lump this lot under created by Nick Jones of Soho House where the catch-all banner The log cabins have bicycles and wellies parked Set. These party barns are actually outside, converted milk floats ferry around guests diplomatic tents. And as the Cotswolds and where there are two ‘massive’ party barns.

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More recently Crown Prince Pavlos of Greece threw excesses of Marie Antoinette. King Felipe of Spain a party for his 50th and his daughter Olympia’s 21st up joined the Queen of the Netherlands, Princess Michael the road in Farmington. The event was so ostentatious of Kent, Paris Hilton and her sister Nicky Rothschild, and royalty-fl ecked that when pictures appeared on Valentino Garavani and India Hicks (who concealed her Instagram at a time of poverty marches in London and nudity with a body painted shirt). Without irony, economic meltdown in Greece, it was compared to the ‘revolution’ was the dress code and Princess Olympia

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21.07.17 ES MAGAZINE 21 Noel Gallagher’s Queen Máxima of the 50th birthday party Netherlands, Valentino at Aynhoe Park and Crown Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece

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other. You can’t say, “Right, there you are, there’s the Cotswolds and it’s presided over by ,” because it isn’t. Matthew is . Madonna, Bono and Stella McCartney at That’s 11 miles away for f***’s sake.’ Noel Gallagher’s 50th The Chipping Norton Set, as they were known, are east. Once the centre of the political universe, their houses were a brisk walk over a couple of fields from each other. David Cameron, the most important man in politics, and wore £640 Gucci trainers with a couture gown. Rebekah Brooks, the most powerful woman in the media, The extravaganza near-eclipsed ‘probably the most enjoyed — we learned — ‘kitchen suppers’, presumably incredible party that’s been held in the Cotswolds ever’, roasted in an Aga and sloshed down with a couple of bottles two months earlier. That was Apple chief designer Sir of Burgundy. Meanwhile — we imagined — Jeremy Jony Ive’s 50th birthday party thrown by Matthew Clarkson and Sam Cam smoked fags and flicked between Freud, which had U2, Jools Holland and Lily Allen Holby City and House of Cards on the telly. It always playing live and novel features such as ‘make your own sounded oddly cosy for what was supposed to be an spin painting’ which could then be verified by Damien intriguing power nexus. Up the road fellow ‘Set’ member Hirst. Speeches were made by everyone from Ben Stiller Alex James from Blur was making cheese and boring via satellite link to Stephen Fry and Noel Gallagher — it Radio 4 programmes, and throwing raves with Charlotte ‘set a new benchmark in the arms race to throw the most Tilbury in his party barn. This all still goes on, I’m assured extreme party for miles’. — people ‘popping round to each others houses to eat It was pure Freud in that his guest lists tend to include sandwiches and sausage rolls’ — but, despite counting Matthew Freud a changing cast of characters, from Hollywood A-listers billionaire businessman Tony Gallagher in their number and Jony Ive to game show hosts to the former Prime (he owns Estate and hosted Cameron’s 50th Minister. (Fortunately for Ive there was no birthday party), the Chipping Norton Set are emphatically Instagramming and therefore no backlash.) A few weeks ‘not flashy’. Nor are they the star attraction any longer. later Noel Gallagher ventured up to the Cotswolds to have his storming 50th up the road in Aynhoe Park “IT’S A MISTAKE TO LUMP THIS rather than in London. LOT UNDER THE CATCH-ALL BANNER So where does the flashy Cotswolds scene fit in with THE CHIPPING NORTON SET. THESE the older, scruffier Chipping Norton one? And how as innocent Londoners are we supposed to navigate the PARTY BARNS ARE ACTUALLY complex social networks? DIPLOMATIC TENTS” In a tired voice, one long-term resident explains. ‘This is going to sound ridiculous but there are two sides to ‘Put simply,’ says the old-timer, ‘everyone in the Chipping Norton, and it’s a bit like north and south of the Cotswolds drives a Range Rover. But there are those with river in London.’ Murdoch, like her ex-husband Matthew green Range Rovers with muddy back seats covered in Freud, lives near Burford, which ‘might as well be France’ dog hair and those with shiny black Range Rovers that to those in Chipping Norton. Pavlos of Greece, are parked if the traffic is bad in favour of a helicopter. meanwhile, is in Farmington, ‘a totally different town. The little group that live in one end are perfectly happy It’s like putting Chelmsford in with Guilford’. In the with their lives and there’s all that other flash stuff at the middle is , home of Lord Bamford of the JCB other end.’ family, and his wife Carole, founder of Daylesford One lot are ‘hunting, shooting, fishing’, the other organics. ‘You can’t lump the Cotswolds in with each ‘pouting, shopping, tanning’. ‘They tend to come up for

22 ES MAGAZINE 21.07.17 under-Wychwood and the Bull Inn in Charlbury. Chloe Delevingne has her sisters Poppy and Cara to stay and the artist and photographer Nadav Kander is believed to stay in Great Tew. The history of the long march from The centre London into the Cotswolds started with of Burford a fashion for renting cottages on the three great estates — Great Tew (owned by the Johnstons), Blenheim (owned by the Marlboroughs) and, later, Sarsden (owned by Tony Gallagher). ‘And then their friends started to venture up to have Sunday lunch with the very, very few people who actually lived here,’ explains one resident. ‘And they thought, “God they’ve got electricity and water and they haven’t got scurvy, so we could actually live here. And it’s only an The Swan pub in hour from London” — their bit of London. So more Ascott-under-Wychwood and more and more people started moving there.’ Freud and Murdoch were among these early the weekend, go to Soho Farmouse, go swimming, look pioneers, renting from Sunny Marlborough (they even out of the corner of their eyes to see how thin the person married at Blenheim, before moving to Burford), as on the next bed is,’ explains a resident. ‘Then they was Simon Kelner before he ‘bravely’ moved to compete to see who can eat the smallest amount of food Woodstock. ‘And then once everyone started writing Alice Brudenell-Bruce and then just go back to London. It’s not like tucking in about the Chipping Norton Set, everyone wanted a piece and Nick Love to a f***ing great roasting pig outdoors or whatever.’ In of the action. Even Amanda Holden tried to get in.’ the week, adds another resident, the Farmhouse is full of Demand became so strong there were waiting lists for ‘London graduate sexy mummies feeding their kids the smallest hut and hovel. To say the Chipping Norton when they can’t “be arsed” to cook’. Set are ‘relieved’ that the heat of the spotlight has To confuse matters there are many groups and sub- swivelled on to new money is an understatement. But groups in between, cross-pollinating and trading in there are drawbacks to the arrival of the new, more different currencies (one is ‘power’, I’m told; another is glamorous scene. ‘connections’; another still is ‘taste’). Elisabeth Murdoch’s crowd incorporates big money and media: she “MATTHEW FREUD’S PARTY FOR APPLE is friendly with Charles Dunstone and his wife Celia CHIEF DESIGNER JONY IVE’S 50TH (who went on her hen night) as well as Brooks and her BIRTHDAY ‘SET A NEW BENCHMARK husband Charlie; who in turn overlaps into the horsey, hunting, Chipping Norton scene along with his eccentric IN THE ARMS RACE TO THROW THE sister Annabel Brooks. MOST EXTREME PARTY FOR MILES” Murdoch also straddles the ‘creatives’ — artists, actors, architects, writers and film-makers that span a ‘It used to feel very much like the countryside. When sweep of territory in the east: actor Tom Hollander, you go through that cut on the M40, the cut that you see architect Tom Bartlett, artist Johnny Yeo, as well as in the credits of The Vicar of Dibley, an amazing view Working Title founder Eric Fellner and his partner Laura reveals itself. You always felt that you’d left the home Bailey. Elsewhere in the area are Jemima Khan and counties and you were in the proper countryside. But now journalist Simon Kelner, the philosopher Alain de Botton, it’s just a funnel for Range Rovers. It’s almost as if film-maker Nick Love and writer Alice Brudenell-Bruce. Notting Hill has absorbed the Cotswolds.’ What about Kate Moss? ‘She has the best party Perhaps the final comment should come from one weekends,’ says a former guest, who lists Rita Ora, Kyle observer who has been a long-time regular at Cotswolds De’Volle and Rosemary Ferguson (who lives with her events. ‘I think what we’ve seen is the creation of a British husband, artist Jake Chapman, only a few miles from version of the Hamptons. It’s all very Gatsby-ish. It’s Moss) as fellow attendees. But as far as locals are where fashionable London wants to be seen at play. concerned, ‘Kate Moss lives miles away. I’ve never Everyone vies to own the swankiest estates and throw the encountered her in the country, I only ever see her in most lavish parties. They say they want privacy, but London. Same as everyone else.’ The younger scene, a actually they want everyone to know how special they more Tatler tribe described as ‘cool not cash’, orbits are, how charmed their lives are. In a way it’s a product around the pubs. Among them are Charlie Crossley and of the 25 years of City boom we’ve witnessed. I wonder his florist wife Willow, who own The Swan in Ascott- whether it will survive the ice chill of perennial .’ Getty; Alamy; Rex; Instagram Rex; Alamy; Getty;

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n a swelteringly hot summer’s day in the ups, and was the culmination of ‘a year and a half’s work’. gardens of Chiswick House, Adwoa Sporadically, too, she has been going into schools talking Aboah and I are sitting outside the café. directly to girls of the age she was when her own troubles Dressed in a white oversized men’s shirt, started. ‘We get a lot of girls writing in and asking if I’ll Oblack sunglasses and battered Reebok come and speak at their school and that’s where I want Classics, she sips bottled water and Gurls Talk to be. When we get to a place where we’ve smokes Camel Lights (‘Do you mind?’): the latter, given done our groundwork, I’d love it to be part of the that she has now been drink- and drug-free for almost two academic curriculum, so [schools] have to give an hour years, being the last vice that she has left. out of their week where someone comes in and talks from Sobriety, of course — and talking about sobriety in a place of experience.’ the context of all the other issues she has faced — is now It was when Aboah first talked of her own experience a big part of Aboah’s life. Because as much as being a that she really captured her generation’s imagination. successful model who has walked a huge number of The video she made in April last year for StyleLikeU’s high-profile shows, appeared in campaigns for the likes What’s Underneath Project — in which subjects remove of Calvin Klein and Marc Jacobs and who in March their clothes while describing their own personal battles featured on the diversity-celebrating ‘Women Rule!’ — still seems superhumanly brave. ‘I’d only ever talked cover of US Vogue (alongside Gigi Hadid, Kendall Jenner about it in front of my parents or my doctor,’ she says, ‘so and Ashley Graham), she is now just as well known for to be talking about it with strangers was cathartic and Gurls Talk, the online platform she founded to encourage amazing. But I think I blocked it out. It came out and I girls to open up about mental health, body image, went, “Wow, okay… my life is out there.” I mean it was addiction, sexuality and ‘just whatever we want’. This, quite scary… but it was amazing, the response that I got.’ she says, is now her primary focus. The story that Aboah told, her true story, goes like ‘When I first talked about my mental health and my this. She was born in west London in 1992: not far at all, addiction background it was a massive responsibility,’ in fact, from Grenfell Tower. ‘I flew from the US that day. she continues, in a deep, world-weary voice that belies I landed that evening and it happened that night,’ she her 25 years. ‘I was like, “Okay, if I’m going to do this, says. ‘[My family] knows everyone: those people in that then this is a journey.” I can’t just put a foot in and then Moroccan shop we know, the people in the corner shop be like, “I’ve done my work.” This is what I’m going to we know. It’s this amazing, beautiful community and have to do.’ then this has happened. We might not know the people Aboah has kept this promise to herself. On the first of personally but, say, the person you buy your electronics this month, she put on a free, one-day Gurls Talk festival off: their uncle’s died. It’s just so close to home, and it’s in London. A collaboration with Coach — ‘I’ve known awful, and it makes you so angry because it’s something Adwoa for many years and we’ve also worked together that shouldn’t have happened. But the way in which lots so it felt very natural,’ says executive creative everyone’s pulled together is amazing.’ director, Stuart Vevers — it saw more than 700 young Her parents were ensconced in the fashion industry: women turn up for a day of talks, workshops and pop- her mother, Camilla Lowther, the founder of highly

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regarded creative agency CLM (which represents the many boys fancied me. And even though back in likes of Rankin, Katie Grand and Juergen Teller), her London my parents’ friends were like, “Oh your father, Charles Aboah, the head of a location scouting daughter’s so beautiful, would she like to model?” that company. They knew everyone, though ‘my mum never didn’t matter. It was the kids, and the boys, and the fact put those fashion ideals into the house. I didn’t wear that I didn’t have blonde hair. That’s all that mattered make-up and I had my hair all frizzy’. She went to private to me.’ school at the Harrodian in Barnes, which she describes It was at this point that her experimentation with as ‘a very sweet school. I had lovely friends. It’s a lot drugs began. She smoked her first spliff at the nearby different now, but I went when it was, like, portacabins house of a day girl on her 14th birthday. As a first-time and really sweet families.’ She says that she just attendee at Glastonbury in 2008 — a mere 20 minutes remembers ‘being very happy and at ease about life and down the road from her school — she took ecstasy for the everything that was coming my way at that time.’ first time. She tried but ultimately ‘wasn’t into’ cocaine. Her problems began when she started, aged 13, as a She did a lot of mephedrone, which in 2009-10 was boarder at Millfield School near Glastonbury. briefly semi-legally available by mail order in the UK, ‘My parents sent me there because they wanted me but it was ketamine that she really fell for. to do sports and they wanted me to do activities, and I’m Aboah stresses that she ‘never felt peer pressure to grateful to them for that,’ she says, ‘but I looked a lot do anything. I think there can be an assumption that different to all the other girls: everyone was blonde and when you’re growing up you go, “Oh everyone else is blue-eyed.’ At Millfield, she continues, ‘it was, “This is doing it, I should do it.” No. I wanted to take drugs, I how you dress. This is how you do your hair, and you put wanted to drink, I wanted to stay out all night.’ She says, loads of foundation on and wear high heels.” And I was for example, that at first she ‘loved how comfortable’ like, “F***, I don’t even know how to be this person.”’ that first pill made her feel, and of ketamine that she Even being scouted on the street ‘a few times, when I liked ‘that oblivion, that quietness that you get with all was like 15-ish’, didn’t help her confidence. ‘I felt very the stuff up here’. She taps her head. ‘That’s what I unattractive at that school. I based my worth on how wanted all the time, and that’s why it just got more and

26 ES MAGAZINE 21.07.17 COACH jumper, £625; skirt, £375; sandals, £275 (uk.coach.com)

“I wanted to take drugs, I wanted to drink, I wanted to stay out all night” COACH dress, £625; collar, POA; sandals, £275 (uk.coach.com)

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Hair by Johnnie Biles at Frank Agency using Bumble and Bumble. Make-up by Celia Burton using CHANEL Travel Diary and Le Lift Skin Recovery Sleep Mask. Nails by Sabrina Gayle at The Wall Group using YSL Beauty. Fashion assistants: Eniola Dare and Amanda Emme. Photographer’s assistant: Alice Bullough

Location provided courtesy of Chiswick House. Gardens and café open year round; Chiswick House open April to September (chiswickhouse “I like to remember andgardens.org.uk) where I was and where I am now. I could have very easily not been here”

more and more and more, until it was just dark and and of course Cara Delevingne, who she has known for depressing, and very insular.’ a decade and with whom she is particularly close (the Her usage only escalated as she began studying drama pair have matching half-heart tattoos). If she baulks at at Brunel University, culminating in her arrival home the idea of fame on the level of her long-time friend — ‘I after a Glastonbury binge in 2014: so bad that her parents mean it is mental; I’ve been there from before she was sent her off to a place in Arizona called Cottonwood, an famous to when it boomed up and just got more and addiction rehab and behavioural health treatment centre. more. But she’s kept grounded and amazing and the When she got back to London she was installed in a South same’ — then she is happy to use whatever attention Kensington halfway house called Start2Stop, but by her does come her way for good. As well as Gurls Talk, she own (retrospective) admission, wasn’t ready. She speaks out constantly on the issue of diversity in fashion, overdosed almost immediately ‘because I just didn’t which she says is ‘not even close to where it should be. want to take anyone’s advice. I was like, “No, I can go The industry is still very lazy in terms of casting and is back to university, I can do this, I can do that, I can live not looking outside the box. Diversity can’t be a in London, I can hang out with the same people and do fashionable thing: it should be here to stay.’ She is, all those things right now.”’ however, optimistic about Edward Enninful’s arrival at It was at this point, while staying at Start2Stop, that Vogue and the impact that will have. ‘I didn’t even think she took another, this time deliberate, overdose and tried about it when everyone was like, “The first male, black to kill herself. She remembers the date: 3 October 2015. editor of Vogue!” It’s more just: “It’s Edward Enninful. ‘In a weird way it’s like a birthday for me. I like to Have you seen what he’s done?”’ remember where I was and where I am now. It’s not Since February, she has been based in Brooklyn, something I’m going to forget. I could have very easily which she likes because she feels the same sense of not been here, so I feel like it’s respectful to remember.’ community as she does in Westbourne Park. ‘I like that Almost two years on, things are much better for Aboah. the kids play outside of my door,’ she says. ‘I really, really She has gone through more successful treatment. She need community. I’m a Taurus, I need a home.’ Having spent time away with her family, including a road trip split from her boyfriend of six years, photographer across the US with her two-years-younger sister, Kesewa. Tyrone Lebon, last October, she has for three months She describes the fact that she made it through been seeing a ‘really handsome’ guy that she’s known Glastonbury last summer completely sober as ‘such a ‘for ages’ from London named Riccardo Ambrosio, now breakthrough.’ And now she just wants to focus on work. a student at NYU, who she bumped into again during Happily, sobriety has coincided with her modelling her first few days in New York for Fashion Week. career really taking off, with 2017 thus far feeling very ‘I don’t know how it’s got to this place,’ she smiles. ‘It much like her year. She’s already extremely well- just did. I’m happy.’ connected: her Instagram featuring photos of her with Adwoa Aboah wears Coach 1941 Fall 2017 collection, Edie Campbell, Lily James and Lily Donaldson, Zoe available in store and at uk.coach.com from 1 September. Kravitz (‘photo by Mr Frank Ocean’), Jourdan Dunn (gurlstalk.com)

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BEAUTY

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BEAUTY You beauty! ON THE SOAPBOX YouTube’s most glamorous vlogger LISA ELDRIDGE on the latest make-up innovations

s a make-up artist I am fascinated with cosmetic science. It’s the new rock’n’roll, as I like to say. The two main hubs of innovationA are Asia, specifically Korea and Taiwan, and now the West Coast of America, where cosmetic scientists are working with Silicon Valley tech companies to produce some really exciting products. Here are a few of the trends I’m picking up on.

Apps. I recently helped develop an app in China 1 called MakeupPlus that more than 100 million people have downloaded. It uses 3D facial scanning so that users can virtually try a make-up look I have created. Because it uses 250 facial recognition points, the resulting image actually looks like real make-up and not an artificial filter. Water-based eyeliner. These have a 2 much quicker ‘flash off’ (beauty speak for drying time), meaning you don’t have to wait for ages for it to set. The new Lancôme one also has a Korean-inspired

LANCÔME bendable wand so that you can access Grandiôse the inner corners of the eyes more easily. have stumbled across a miracle worker and it Liner in saphir Sheet masks. At Cosmoprof Asia would be a dereliction of duty not to tell you about mirifique, £25 3 (lancome.co.uk) (the global beauty trade fair) I it so — if you have fine hair — prepare to be saw masks specifically thrilled. Fine hair is a bane. A nuisance. A misery. targeting the IParticularly when it’s a bit kinky, which doesn’t mean, jawline and lips, ‘Oh, lucky you with your natural wave.’ It means, ‘Oh, and intelligent BIOAQUA hydrating poor you with your three strands of string dripping in lip mask, £3.50, at Annabel masks that deliver thisisbeautymart.com different directions.’ Volumising products are all fine different ingredients to Rivkin and good as a base (Aveda Thickening Tonic is by far the different areas of the face. pumps up best, in my mind) but styling is horribly hit and miss. the volume So, the other day I was slightly backcombing my silky clean hair and I grabbed what I thought was HEADSPACE hairspray to give it some muscle and hold, whacking it on at the roots and all through the length. Suddenly my hair was doing exactly what I wanted it to do. This never happens. In a happy accident, it turns out the can I was wielding wasn’t hairspray after all but Ouai Dry Shampoo. It is completely undetectable (no powdery effect) apart from the amazing scent; Italian lemon, rose de mai, magnolia, amber and white musk. But what it did, more than any hairspray, was add grit. And, for fine hair, grit translates as body. Usually I can bouffe all I want, only for it to flop after an hour or so — particularly in hot or humid weather. But this was long-lasting and you can’t really go over the top with it: it never gets sticky. It is obviously too expensive for a dry shampoo. But if you reframe it as a life-saver for date nights, Yogis have long known the benefit of meditation after exercise, giving the body big meetings, high-pressure situations, then your time to reboot. For the uninitiated, luxe Kensington gym Equinox has recorded four free meditation podcasts for Londoners who want to give meditation £20 becomes less painful to part with. a go post-workout. (equinox.com) Ouai Dry Shampoo, £20, at selfridges.com Josh Shinner; Jean-Philippe Shinner; Woodland Josh

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FEAST TART LONDON Jemima Jones and Lucy Carr-Ellison slow cook butterflied shoulder of lamb

Easy like Sunday morning: baby Eliza enjoys the day’s most important meal

Jemima Jones (left) and Lucy Carr-Ellison

he flavours in this marinade are a bit of a global fusion, mixing Middle Eastern cumin and pomegranate molasses with traditional British herbsT such as rosemary and bay leaves. It is the perfect marinade for lamb and would also work well with cuts like the leg, shank or rack. Given our changeable English weather we chose to slow cook this recipe in the oven, but you could easily cook it on the barbecue, which would enhance the flavour. Butterflied simply means the shoulder bone is removed from the lamb, leaving a flat piece of meat. It’s a brilliant way of cooking for numbers, as it’s simpler to prepare and is much easier to carve. The shoulder is a cheaper cut of meat that is usually used for hearty, warming dishes in the winter months. But slow cooking makes the meat so deliciously tender that Serves 5 there’s no reason not to use it in the summer BUTTERFLIED SHOULDER OF LAMB SALAD months, before tearing up the amazingly soft 850g shoulder of lamb, Mix the marinade ingredients together (except meat and tossing through a salad. de-boned for the wine) and pour over the lamb. Leave for We often serve this on photo shoots. It’s a For the marinade at least 3 hours, or overnight, in the fridge. 3 garlic cloves, finely sliced favourite of Tim Walker, who, as well as being 50ml pomegranate molasses Heat the oven to 170C. Place the lamb in a one of the most acclaimed photographers 1 tbsp honey roasting tin, pour over the white wine and cover 3 tbsp olive oil around, has always been really kind and 2 tsp ground coriander with tin foil. Cook for 3.5 hours, removing the tin supportive of us, so we always think of him 2 tsp ground cumin foil halfway through cooking. Remove from the 2 sprigs rosemary when making it. 4 bay leaves oven and leave to rest for 20 minutes. Use two If you do want to give this a go on the 1 large glass of white wine forks to shred the meat, turning it about in all

barbecue, there’s no need to bother with the For the salad its delicious juices. salad. As soon as it is meltingly tender, simply 150g fresh peas Plunge the peas into a bowl of boiling water Handful of crunchy salad leaves tuck in to buns with good barbecue sauce, 100g feta, crumbled for 30 seconds, then drain. Arrange the salad crunchy coleslaw and lashings of mustard. 100g pomegranate seeds leaves on a platter with the peas, then scatter Bunch of mint, woody stems It’s a lovely alternative to pulled pork. removed over the lamb, feta, pomegranate seeds, mint 4 spring onions, sliced and spring onions. Whisk together the olive

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Spritland sports custom-built FEAST speakers by In the Living Voice MIX Sounds like Douglas Blyde DREAM SPIRITS finds the soul WORDS BY FRANKIE MCCOY of Metaxa rests in the Banging tunes and top-notch booze don’t have to be mutually Greek isles exclusive when planning your wo and a half years feels like Friday night. There’s a new six,’ says hard-working Vasilis generation of cocktail bars in ‘T Kyritsis of incongruously titled which the quality of the liquor The Clumsies in Praxitelous, Athens. is matched by the quality of the Inscribed with as many tattoos as there sound system pumping stellar is graffiti on an average Athenian wall, tracks from top London DJs, Kyritsis is one of five partners who took with music buffs and cocktail just two months to restore the century- snobs clinking glasses until the SPIRITLAND old property into a labyrinthine bar, now wee hours. Here’s where to get Dodge the snaking Dishoom queue in ranked No 9 by the World’s 50 Best your boozed-up beats. King’s Cross and dive into Spiritland, which Bars. ‘We are the architects, ideas, PRs describes itself as ‘London’s first listening and bartenders.’ The decks at bar’. ‘You need great drinks to accompany We climb time-worn marble steps Brilliant Corners the music and vice versa,’ says founder Paul past a long, buzzing table by the sunlit Noble. That great music consists of resident courtyard to a salon where tree-like and guest DJs (Andrew Weatherall and exposed timbers carve through the Hot Chip have both turned up) and an centre. ‘It’s like the building took its astonishing set of speakers, custom-built by clothes off,’ I remark. We then return to a super luxe Living Voice. ‘We’re in pursuit of stairwell encased in an elevator-like cage. excellence and creating the best listening ‘But there’s no elevator to success,’ says experience in the world,’ says Noble. A haunt Kyritsis, irony-free. ‘I believe in hard for audiophiles who don’t want to dance in work, focus, not the illusion of talent.’ Fabric but do want delicious drinks, such as sweetly herbal Queen of Hills: East London “It’s so substantial it dry gin, Darjeeling tea liqueur, grapefruit, feels like it could break the BRILLIANT elderflower and hops.(spiritland.com) CORNERS sides of my small glass” Since brothers Amit Nikos Bakoulis, another partner, and Aneesh Patel BEHIND THIS WALL perfects a potion alluding to the opened the tiny Behind This Wall is designed to be ‘a bit like ingredients of a Greek salad in the Brilliant Corners on being in your mate’s living room’, according kitchen-like ‘Lab’ at The Clumsies’ heart. the carswept, dingy to co-founder Alex Harris. If, that is, your Balanced on a well-scrawled whiteboard, Kingsland Road in mate happened to have a one-deck vintage an evil eye looks on. Adjoining, 10 guests Dalston in 2013, the Tannoy Gold sound system, an oyster happy may, for a total of €100, hire ‘The Room’, bar — influenced by Japanesekissaten (coffee hour and innovative drinks such as the ‘no playing pool on red baize while absorbing shops cum jazz bars) — has gained legendary poblano’: a mad Mexican concoction of bespoke cocktails. status among music fans. This is partly due pisco, absinthe, chilli, honey, salt water, For mine, Kyritsis takes inspiration to the Klipschorn speakers pumping out molé and hellfire bitters. ‘We really wanted from Metaxa, a smooth rose, violet and genre-spanning tunes; partly its impromptu to make the aural part of the environment orange-scented, mahogany-hued spirit parties, the most recent of which saw James as important as the design: to match it,’ distilled in Athens and blended with Murphy debut the forthcoming LCD Harris says. He and his co-founders (who island Muscat wine. ‘It’s not a cognac, it’s Soundsystem album to a crowd including all hail from legendary clubs such as Plastic Metaxa,’ he says, delivering a ‘hypnotic’ Jude Law and Jarvis Cocker; and also People) were ‘sick of DJ bars where the from the boldly illustrated Genesis menu. because of the food and drinks — fantastic jockey would be living in the headphone mix Evoking a Manhattan, it fuses Metaxa octopus sashimi, three types of and not concerned for the punters in the with bourbon, fig and goat’s cheese and mescal, six types of sake, a DJs regularly spin from space’. Instead, pals like Aaron bears leather and barrel cellar notes, dangerously excellent the bar at Behind This Wall Coultate share their favourite being so substantial it feels like it could Tommy’s margarita records and have a few strong break the sides of my small glass. and orange wines pilars (rum, red vermouth, The drink’s soul is in its link to Samos, by the gallon. kombucha, dried lime an island 170 miles east, full of olives, (brilliantcorners syrup and hibiscus flower). lemons and, of course, Muscat, stroked london.co.uk) (behindthiswall.com) by the eastern Aegean... (theclumsies.gr) Jonny Cochrane; Alamy; glassware available at waterford.co.uk at available glassware Alamy; Cochrane; Jonny

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HOMEWORK Wallpaper* editor-in-chief Tony Chambers on the Barbican’s most eclectic show yet, new walls of sound and the art of glass

Step FORWARD or the title alone, this is a must. This week marks THE TECHNOLOGY the opening of Trajal Harrell: Hoochie Koochie The much-anticipated at the Barbican Art Gallery, which focuses on BeoSound Shape, by Danish dance and in particular the practice of American designer Øivind Alexander Slaatto, finally hits the market choreographerF Trajal Harrell. The gallery will play host to next month. A cross between a more than 14 live performances of works from 1999-2016 wireless sound system and in a changing, daily programme featuring a cast of wall art, it features a series of 18, interspersed among stage installations and film hexagonal, wool-clad tiles, each serving as a speaker, projections. Visitors will be free to roam the space and in amplifier or acoustic damper. some cases even walk into the performances themselves. Available in 10 colours, they It promises to be something special. The gallery is can be arranged in endless configurations to deliver both one of my favourite artistic institutions in London and I’ve aural and visual pleasure. seen almost every show over the past two-and-a-half (bang-olufsen.com) decades. I’ve been a Barbican resident for 23 years so the idas’ latest : Ad convenience helps (I can pop down in my slippers), but an m THE PRODUCT ur more importantly it’s due to the gallery’s experimental o y Adidas Stan Smith trainers, which have seen ’s approach. Though a middleweight in terms of space and n multiple design collaborations including a t resources, it has consistently led the pack in shining the S with the likes of Raf Simons and Pharrell spotlight on all visual disciplines, with its recent line-up Williams, have now been overhauled by Danish textile manufacturer Kvadrat. comprising a retrospective of Icelandic performance artist A homage to the city of Copenhagen, Ragnar Kjartansson, a survey of the vulgar in fashion and this special edition is available in three a showcase of Japanese domestic architecture. iterations, constructed from dotted fabric by designer Vibeke Rohland. The sports brand’s triple-stripe motif is “A fictional encounter between two dance represented in subtle embroidered detailing, while a leather patch on the heel pioneers and radical fashion designer Rei adds a splash of bright colour. (adidas.com) Kawakubo is presented as a belly dance” THE EXPERIENCE Hoochie Koochie may be its most eclectic exhibition yet. Not to be outdone by the Harrell is one of the most innovative minds working in Barbican, Tate Britain is also dance today, exploring diverse forms from classical Greek to embracing dance this summer with a series of performances by local Japanese butoh to erotic dancing. Anchoring the Barbican company Fevered Sleep. Titled Men show is his most recent piece, Caen Amour — a fictional & Girls Dance, it features five male encounter between two dance pioneers and the radical professional dancers performing fashion designer Rei Kawakubo, presented as a seductive with nine little girls who dance for fun. It pushes the boundaries belly dance-like spectacle. Another highlight, In the Mood for of choreography, challenges Frankie, has three dancers performing within an installation negative assumptions about of Harrell’s own design, comprising low square platforms, a gender dynamics and celebrates both friendship and art. small fish pond and a series of rugs. There’s also a solo 27 July to 6 August (tate.org.uk) performance by Harrell, The Return of La Argentina, bringing together butoh and vogueing to ponder ideas of race and gender, as well as a more conceptual piece, Untitled THE PERSON Still Life Collection, involving a single line of blue string and French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel (left) is best known for Les Belles Danses, a monumental fountain in the jointly conceived with American visual artist Sarah Sze. Water Theatre Grove of Versailles comprising 1,751 Harrell’s show promises to be unlike anything London bowling ball-sized glass orbs. He is now lending his has seen and is a bold move on the Barbican’s part. As exuberant aesthetic to the new Jean-Georges restaurant at The Connaught, which opens this summer. A series of curator Leila Hasham tells me, ‘It’s fun, playful, but also stained-glass windows, representing different stages of conceptual. It straddles the worlds of visual art, design, the day (from sunrise in the east to sunset in the west), dance and theatre, so there is something for everyone.’ will tint the space in rich hues of orange and gold as Which is also a great description of what makes the sunlight streams in. Othoniel currently has solo shows in the south of France and is working on a show opening Barbican so special. To 13 August (barbican.org.uk) at Galerie Perrotin, New York, next year. (othoniel.fr) Getty

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AS TOLD TO LILY WORCESTER

Home is… Kensington, which I just adore — I’ve lived there for 12 years with my husband, two boys and whippet, Moody. My parents live at the end of the road; it’s Which outlets a very Maitlis-centric part of do you rely on? the world. My Persian beautician called Sima, from Sima & Fe’ on Kensington Church Street. During the facial she’ll start quoting Rumi or Hafez at me, all these wonderful Persian poets — it’s actually quite restful. She uses completely raw elements, so you kind of go, ‘Oh my God, my face is on fire’, and she says, ‘Yes, I just put chilli flakes on it.’

Last play you saw? Best meal you’ve had? Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Six Portland Road. I turned are Dead at The Old Vic (above). up there with my dad, who is I found it had dated a bit. I in a wheelchair, and they were remember seeing it as a student like, ‘Who are you? We don’t and thinking it was just mind- have a booking.’ So I hit the blowing and now as a grumpy roof — I was really quite rude. forty-something I was like, ‘Oh I had booked completely the yeah, this.’ The news presenter performs karaoke at wrong restaurant, Lucky Voice, enjoys drinks by the river and called The Portland, Favourite pub? calls Piers Morgan for a good time which is miles away. It The Dove (right) in could have been so Hammersmith. embarrassing but they It’s on the water Best piece of Where do you go to were so brilliant and and it’s teeny. advice you let you hair down? so welcoming, they have been I love karaoke at made Most given? Lucky Voice (right) us amazing romantic My colleague on Poland Street. I cocktails and thing Kavita [Puri] have a very beautiful voice after the food was to die for. someone has said, ‘You have three dirty vodka Martinis. done for you? to ask for things Ever had a run-in with a You know in When at work — women If you could buy any building, policeman? Harry Met Sally sit there waiting which would it be? I have run over a policeman when he says to never pick for things to come to The French embassy — it has while I was rollerblading, someone up from the airport them and not realising that a lovely garden and they’ve not in a bad way, in a kind of because the next time, if you actually all the men are got impeccable taste. ‘that’s the only way I know don’t, they will start thinking running off asking for how to brake’ way. He was that your relationship has them. Things don’t Who do you call very nice and gave me his arm. dropped off the boil — we live by just happen, you when you want to I was rescued by the strong that in my family. Sweetly my don’t get something have fun? arm of the law. husband came and picked me because you sit Piers Morgan (left). up the day I came back from a politely and are well He used to have a pub Emily Maitlis presents 24-hour trip to California. I behaved — that’s — evenings there were ‘Newsnight’ on BBC2 and is an found that really romantic. not how it works.’ legendary… and painful. ambassador for Centrepoint Getty

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