Volume 03 — Issue 01 Neighbourhood Life +Global Style Neighbourhood Legal drugs Life It’s apocalypse ! Style Fashion revolutionary Design After disaster Culture Unseen Terence Donovan + The Car Special Do not throw on the public domain. MATTHIAS SCHOENAERTS PHOTOGRAPHED BY MICHEL DE WINDT SCHOENAERTS MATTHIAS www.essentiel.be 3035-ess_2p_theword.indd 1 1/5/10 3:56:06 PM 3035-ess_2p_theword.indd 1 1/5/10 3:56:06 PM lll#\^dg\^dVgbVc^WZVjin#Xdb 6The editor's letter Publisher Back when we chose it for our January issue, The Morning After seemed like it was going to be Nicholas Lewis one of our lighter themes – a chance for us all to get in touch with our inner idiots and hang out, hung-over, on the sofa all day watching re-runs of Hanna-Barbera cartoons. Early brainstorms Editor-in-chief for content turned into extended confession sessions full of tales of amnesia, tattoos, bad sex and Hettie Judah excruciating SMS messages. Design Things became progressively darker as the weeks wore quickly down towards deadline. What Facetofacedesign had started as a jokey riposte to the upbeat self-improvement message put out by most magazines pleaseletmedesign around this time of year took on a revolutionary - even apocalyptic - aspect which mani- fested itself in our end-of-days board game, and explorations of religious cults and the end of Writers capitalism. Nick Amies Alex Deforce Further afi eld we checked in with Istanbul’s alternative scene; it’s a face of the city unlikely to be Hettie Judah promoted by the offi cial City of Culture events of 2010, but whether in music, cinema, fashion Rozan Jongstra or visual arts there’s amazing creative energy in the air. We say - bye bye Berlin – wake up to the Nicholas Lewis ‘bul. Pelin Turgut Karen Van Godtsenhoven We also took a trip back in time when we were allowed special access to the archives of British Randa Wazen photographer Terence Donovan. Leafi ng through fi les of negatives from 50 years ago was a magical experience – these were photographs that he’d taken in his very early 20s, most of which Photography/Illustration had never been printed, let alone published. Donovan famously photographed some of the most Benoît Banis beautiful women of the early 1960s in intimate, un-posed settings (including, most notoriously, Ulrike Biets model Celia Hamilton sitting on a lavatory). We wondered whether the modern world of camera Pierre-Philippe Duchâtelet phones and Facebook –which have turned our most unguarded moments into public property – Sarah Eechaut has led to us moderating our behaviour, or whether we just don’t care any more? Vincent Ferrane Félicie Haymoz There was a nasty moment when it looked as though we wouldn’t get to put out the magazine at Mélisande Mc Burnie all as various members of the editorial team got trapped on the wrong sides of the channel on Ahmet Polat layout week, and had to make their way back through the chaos of Europe’s over-stressed trans- Inge Rylant port network. All those apocalyptic jests suddenly seemed stark and real, as it became evident Yassin Serghini how little extra stress it required for a system we all took for granted to reach breaking point. Bruce Tsai Interns Virginie Van de Casteele (editorial) Maren Spriewald (photography) Veerle Frissen (photography) Hettie Judah For subscriptions (5 issues) Transfer ¤ 21 (Belgium), ¤ 30 (Europe) or ¤ 45 (Worldwide) to account n° 363-0257432-34 IBAN BE 68 3630 2574 3234 BIC BBRUBEBB stating your full name, email and postal addresses in the communication box. 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For what it's worth Rado 08 The contents 32 The turnaround 76 The aftermath You're looking at it A hit for a hit 09 A word from our advertisers 34 The Word on Fiat The fi rst metro 10 The contributors 38 The other Word on It's a Word's world Apocalypse now(ish) 11 A word from our advertisers Bombay Sapphire 40 The capital What happened next 12 The diary * Culture 80 The shelf Waking up in Istanbul Studio stack 82 The pencil The moodboard Your days are numbered * 13 The diary Style 84 The vault Belgium 15 A word from our advertisers 46 The showstoppers Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen My other morning glory 16 The diary Belgium + United Kingdom 50 The fashion Word 18 The diary France + Holland 19 A word from our advertisers Terence Donovan: Waking up the 60's Brussels Philharmonic 20 The diary 90 The eye Gigs to catch & Give aways The morning after breakfast 21 A word from our advertisers Affordable Art Fair The morning I died * * * 94 The stockist Neighbourhood The Car Special And others we love 22 The papers 60 The cover 95 A word from our advertisers The Car Special The Word Magazine 61 The special papers 96 The advertisers Soundtrack for… + Love foam… Round up 62 The project Imperial return 98 Before we leave you 64 The tryout This is not a test 99 A word from our advertisers The Morning After papers 68 The special showstoppers Ristorante Bocconi Grease monkeys at the body shop 100 A word from our advertisers 27 A word from our advertisers BMW Anima Eterna 28 The guide Friday's coming down with style 29 A word from our advertisers De Greef S01006B26 World 295X210 UK4.indd 1 30/12/09 15:50:32 n. o si er v l a in g ri o n s i es in app C. 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S01006B26 World 295X210 UK4.indd 1 30/12/09 15:50:32 10 The contributors It’s a Word’s world Pelin Turgut Writer Pelin Turgut is based in Istanbul and writes on a variety of issues for publications like TIME and the Independent. Founder and co-director of !f istanbul, the region’s premier festival dedicated to cutting-edge independent cinema. For this issue she reports on Istanbul’s blos- soming counter-culture. The photo is taken in Assos, her favourite place to wake up. ifi stanbul.com Bruse Tsai Illustrator Pages n° 40 — 45 Bruse Tsai got in touch with us via our website and asked us to check out his portfolio. When a story came in about rock n’roll rehab, it Ahmet Polat seemed a good fi t, and we reckon the boy has Photographer done us proud. Based in The Netherlands, Bruce has recently participated in exhibitions Ahmet Polat has a Dutch mother and Turkish in Utrecht and Rotterdam. father and has spent many years exploring the brucetmc.com Turkish side of his heritage through photo- graphs. The results will be shown in a solo Pages n° 32, 33 show at FOAM in Amsterdam next autumn. In the mean time, he’s been photographing Istanbul as it wakes up for our pages. ahmetpolat.nl Pages n° 40 — 45 Delphine Dupont + plmd Graphic designers To label Delphine, Pierre and Damien mere graphic designers would be to grossly undervalue their contribution to the maga- zine. Yes, they are The Word’s custodians of style, forcing upon us their purist ethos with regards to grid design, although they go much further – from brainstorming with us to expanding our pool of contributors. This isn’t a case of ‘Us’ (the editorial team) VS ‘them’ (the designers). No, no, no. They shape the ‘us’, plain and simple. facetofacedesign.com plmd.me Pages n° 01 — 100 12 The moodboard Events Arts Music Getaways Neighbourhood 13 Belgium ( 01¤ 10 ) 01. Fast and furious 03. Love me or hate me 01. Ten canvases, all acrylic paint on French painter Bernard Buffet paper, all vertical. No technol- was a master of that very French ogy, no sound and no gimmickry. Alain social phenomenon, Misérabilisme. Loved by Séchas’ exhibition at Baronian Francey the French public yet loathed by the country’s presents a much quieter body of work than the higher echelons, he was one of the most divi- dislocated sculptures he has accustomed us sive fi gures on the country’s contemporary to.