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28.09.18 The stars are born Meet the up-and-coming actors breaking into the big time EDITOR’S LETTER LAURA WEIR One of my jobs as editor of this magazine is to celebrate and THE HOMEWARE champion our creative industries. The brilliant actors we’ve Goad’s signature scalloped pro led on page for our annual rising stars feature may not shades get the Liberty treatment. Swoon. Want. Need. Etc. be A-listers yet, but in the next few years expect them to be MATILDA GOAD FOR LIBERTY dominating at the Ba as, Oliviers and Oscars. Take -year-old lampshade, from £140 Jodie Comer, who’s already becoming a cult star for her role in (libertylondon.com) BBC’s totally addictive Killing Eve (hands up if you’ve already binge watched the whole series). Or Percelle Ascott, another - year-old who’s not only starring in Net ix’s latest young adult hit The Innocents (think Stranger Things .) but has his own production company. This new gen are seriously impressive. Elsewhere in the issue, on page Isabel Hardman trawls EDITOR IN CHIEF Laura Weir Westminster’s corridors to get the latest on whether a new centrist @laura_weir party can really emerge to save Britain. It’s riveting — if dispiriting — stu . We also have a piece from the brilliant Farrah Storr on page . The Cosmo editor-in-chief has penned us a heartening piece on the rewards of early career struggle. And whatever you do, don’t miss our huge London Fashion Week round-up on page — Here are the I and our fashion and beauty teams spent three days running round editor’s top ve picks the shows spotting next year’s biggest trends, just for you. Enjoy! of the week THE CANDLE The latest in its city candles series. This one has notes of incense, wood and tobacco. DIPTYQUE New York candle, £50 (diptyqueparis.co.uk) THE BAG Are we looking at the chicest bumbag ever? Too cute. FENDI shearling belt bag, £1,190, at matchesfashion.com THE BOOK The 20th anniversary of the THE SHOES publication of Lawson’s kitchen bible A pretty little slip on, ain’t it? calls for a cult reissue. ‘How to Eat’ by MAGDA BUTRYM shoes, £700 Nigella Lawson, £14.99 (penguin.co.uk) (shop.magdabutrym.com) Visit us online: standard.co.uk/esmagazine • Follow us: @eveningstandardmagazine @ESmago cial @ESmago cial Editor in chief Laura Weir Deputy editor Anna van Praagh Art director Ben Turner Fashion director at large Bay Garnett Fashion features director Katrina Israel Arts & entertainment director Dipal Acharya Acting features director Nick Curtis Art editor Jessica Landon Senior fashion editor Sophie van der Welle Associate features editor Hamish MacBain Picture assistant Madalina Loghin Fashion editor Sophie Paxton Features writer Frankie McCoy Fashion assistant Jessica Skeete-Cross Acting beauty director Rose Beer Beauty director Katie Service Social media editor Natalie Salmon Deputy beauty and lifestyle editor Lily Worcester Chief sub editor Matt Hryciw Offi ce administrator/editor’s PA Niamh O’Keeff e Contributing creative editor Richard Gray Deputy chief sub editor Nick Howells Contributing editors Lucy Carr-Ellison, Tony Chambers, James Corden, Richard Godwin, Daisy Hoppen, Jemima Jones, Anthony Kendal, David Lane, Mandi Lennard, Annabel Rivkin, Nicky Yates (style editor at large) Group client strategy director Deborah Rosenegk Head of magazines Christina Irvine ES Magazine is published weekly and is available only with the London Evening Standard. 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Expect Art of the DEAL £6 cocktails across town, special Learn how to invest in art at 34 mixology masterclasses and er, a Mayfair and find out where all Porn Star Martini townhouse. Hic. the women artists are at Soho 1-7 Oct (drinkup.london) House, then drink Ruinart at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery with Yana Peel as the inaugural MEASURING UP Bazaar Art Week kicks off. Measure for Measure is one of 1-7 Oct (hearstlive.co.uk) the more indie Shakespeare plays, so extra points for watching Hayley Atwell and2 Jack Lowden alternate the roles of Deputy and Novice in Josie Rourke’s new production at the Donmar 4 Warehouse. Tickets from £10. Until HALL 24 Nov (donmarwarehouse.com) OF FAME Tate Modern’s Grub STREETS Turbine Hall Restaurant-hopping tours around (left) has Battersea Power Station, talks played host to 5 from the likes of Pierre Koffmann some seriously and Andrew Wong and sashimi- bizarre fuelled cinema: the London large-scale Restaurant Festival is back, so installations come hungry. 1-31 Oct over the years. Now it’s the turn of (londonrestaurantfestival.com) Cuban artist Tania Bruguera; her previous exhibition at Tate Modern involved live horses. Just saying. Free entry. 2 Oct to 24 Feb (tate.org.uk) LET’S GO GIRLS! That don’t impress me much, oh oh ohhh —we’re SPOT ON going out tonight because Yayoi Kusama is one of the most the goddess who is important — and coolest — Shania Twain is coming Japanese contemporary artists, to the O2 for two nights 7so lucky us that a huge exhibition of only. Man! Tickets from fantastical, gorgeously hued new work (left) 6 £69.75. 2-3 Oct is coming to Victoria Miro gallery. Free (theo2.co.uk) entry. 3 Oct to 21 Dec (victoria-miro.com) LAST CHANCE: go appreciate nature’s finest at Adrian Houston’s LOOK AHEAD: London girl and Brits Critics Choice glorious A Portrait of the Tree, a series of photos of celebrities’ favourite winner Jorja Smith takes the O2 Brixton Academy for the finale Courtesydrinkup.london; photography; LillianBassman/Victoriacourtesy © Tate Albertand Museum; courtesyArtsVictoriaOtaFineandMaguire; Miro;Alex Getty; illustrationJonathan Machas Calugiby @ trees, from Goldie Hawn’s to Nick Mason’s. Until 28 Sep (theunitldn.com) of her smash solo tour. 17-18 Oct (livenation.co.uk) 28.09.18 ES MAGAZINE 5 UPFRONT Laura Craik on her love for her adopted city, TV’s latest high-fashion thriller and why Kylie Jenner is milking it ou think London is a city drowning in the milk of human kindness? Think again. We’re a bunch of ‘arrogant’ tossers — at least, according to a YouGov survey of Ypeople who don’t live here. The city itself, meanwhile, has been branded ‘expensive’, ‘crowded’ and ‘chaotic’. Harsh but fair, non-Londoners. Harsh but fair. We didn’t really need a survey to tell us this: we already have regional house guests for that. I fondly like to call them The Nahs. No sooner are they o the train than the moaning starts. Art exhibition? Open city: A 2017 artwork Nah, the admission fee’s too steep. Lunch at the by Sir Peter farmers’ market? Nah, let’s just make Blake celebrating the entertainers sandwiches. Pub? Nah, they’ll just get some from across cans from Nisa. By pm, they have a Britain who have come to London headache — it’s the pollution — and spend over the years to the rest of the weekend sitting at your perform at Chiswick Empire Theatre; kitchen table, bitching about someone you left, Riccardo Tisci both went to school with in the Nineties. Who’s more insular: the person who moved to London, or the person who built a life miles down the road from their childhood home? That not everyone who lives here was born here is one of London’s biggest strengths. No one “We came to London to escape arriving from Europe, Africa, Asia or, in my case, insularity, not to promote it” Edinburgh, can a ord to be arrogant: apart from anything else, it’s not the most ideal attitude to While everyone is quite rightly raving about the adopt if you want to put down roots and make acting prowess of Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer (see new friends. We came here to escape insularity, page ), I’m just as obsessed with the show’s not to promote it. As Riccardo Tisci, an Italian costume designer, Phoebe de Gaye. Not since Sex helming one of Britain’s most storied brands, said and the City has high fashion been such an integral part a er his debut at last week’s Burberry show: ‘I came of a TV series, and how ace it is to see Comer’s character, to England when I was , and very shy. This is where Villanelle, rocking a pink Molly Goddard dress (below I cracked out of my egg.’ le ), Balenciaga boots, a Miu Miu bomber jacket and a When you live here, it’s easy to forget how a uent brocade Dries Van Noten suit. Brings a whole new London is when compared with the most impoverished meaning to the phrase ‘if looks could kill’. More proper parts of Britain, and why the price of every comestible fashion on TV, please, everyone.