Volume 04 — Issue 02 Neighbourhood Life + Global Style Neighbourhood Seeing red Life Rosy cheeks Style Fireworks Music Ruby rockers Culture Brick city + The Fashion Special The red album 4 The editor's letter AVAILABLE AT BELLEROSE Publisher and editor-in-chief I don’t really like red as a colour. I find it aggressive, sometimes Nicholas Lewis even distasteful. It is loud and primitive and leaves nothing to the imagination. Be it in fashion, interiors or even urban architecture, red Editor is often nothing more than a faux pas, a wrong-footed attempt to make Randa Wazen a statement which often ends with squints and eyesores for all. Red is a colour that works well on paper, but somewhat falls short in practice. Design Red. It does sound nice on paper. As nice as the red-tinted stories, facetofacedesign features and interviews we have lined up for you in this edition. + pleaseletmedesign To begin with, there’s the piece we did on anger management, the Writers profile of snake-breeding hybrid hero Sebastien Rien as well as the Vincent Dechamps editorial nod given to slasher movies. There’s the feature on Brussels' Rozan Jongstra notorious devil den Le Bar Rouge, and the series capturing boxers Nicholas Lewis seconds after stepping off the ring. There’s also the explosive fashion Philippe Pourhashemi story, and the visual document on Flanders' standard-setting red brick Stijn Verlinden houses. Randa Wazen On the music front, we spoke with Eagles of Death Metal frontman Photographers/Illustrators Jesse Hughes, skyped London's Autokratz and Paris' My Sister Klaus 354 Photographers as well as gave a disposable camera to Belgium's Vermin Twins. We Toon Aerts also digged deep into our national heritage, talking to Belgian punk Ulrike Biets pioneers Red Zebra and capturing L'Ancienne Belgique in its full glory. Sarah Eechaut Veerle Frissen For our annual fashion special, we did our part for local talent (both Merel ‘t Hart established and emerging) and spent an afternoon with Walter Van Memymom Beirendonck and Dirk van Saene. We also organised a round table Sarah Michielsen debate on the topic of sustainable fashion, wondering if the hype was Ismael Moumin really deserved. Eight industry professionals (of which an art director, OBLIQUE a fashion designer and a retail pioneer) got together for an honest and Yassin Serghini insightful exchange, discussing everything from the true definition Brecht Vandenbroucke of sustainability to what the fashion folks should really be doing to Virassamy make the world a better place. You can watch a video of the talk on thewordmagazine.be. Interns Antoine Ghuisoland (graphic design) This edition also marks the introduction of QR codes to the magazine. Kathy Boros (editorial) The idea is quite simple. As soon as you see a bar code somewhere on the page, scan it with your smartphone and you’ll automatically For subscriptions (5 issues) be redirected to the content (and much more) on our website. We’re Transfer ¤ 21 (Belgium), getting with the times, and digitalising our paper. ¤ 30 (Europe) or ¤ 45 (World) 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. Nicholas Lewis Visit us thewordmagazine.be Like us facebook.com/TheWordMagazine Follow us @TheWordMgz Download us thewordmagazine.be/ipad The Word is published five times a year by JamPublishing, 107 Rue Général Henry Straat 1040 Brussels Belgium. Reproduction, in whole or in part, without prior permission is strictly prohibited. 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The publish- ers cannot be held liable for any changes in On this cover this respect after this date. © Sarah Eechaut What you think you looking at? 020_conv_090211_advertentie.indd 1 2/10/11 3:58 PM AVAILABLE AT BELLEROSE 020_conv_090211_advertentie.indd 1 2/10/11 3:58 PM 6 The contents Neighbourhood STyLe The faShioN SpeciaL 21 36 64 The temper trap The showstoppers The prodigy 22 40 68 Sébastien Rien Ruby greyscale Walter & Dirk Life MuSic cuLTure 30 51 76 Painting the town red Lydia Lunch The shelf 32 52 80 Speak of the devil Brick by brick 60 88 Red bulls Playing with fire Lip reading www.essentiel.be ess_pub_1p_theword_ma-apr.indd 1 22/02/11 15:48 www.essentiel.be ess_pub_1p_theword_ma-apr.indd 1 22/02/11 15:48 8 The contributors It’s a Word’s world Antoine Ghuisoland Simon-Pierre Toussaint Brecht Vandenbroucke Memymon graphic design intern stylist illustrator photographers Pages Pages Pages 40 — 49 78 — 79 88 — 93 About About About About Currently completing his final Since recently graduating A young illustrator and proud Mother (Marilène Coolens) and year in graphic design at HEAJ, with honours from Antwerp’s Belgian, Brecht sketches daughter (Lisa De Boeck) duo Antoine keeps busy designing fashion academy, Simon- every day, in a trademark Memymom sees photography as flyers, working on his personal Pierre has been splitting his style that features his bitingly a leap through the rabbit hole: exhibitions, helping with his time between styling edito- sardonic humour in magazine whether making a statement, great-grand-father’s exhibition rials, staging installations illustrations or painstakingly taking their revenge against life at Botanique (see page 11), and and launching his own label, detailed spreads. or simply creating beauty (and interning at The Word. Dearest. the beast). Task Task Task Task Antoine has helped out with Simon-Pierre's avant-garde and For this edition, we asked him to For this Portfolio, the ladies everything from drafting presen- bold aesthetic, a mix of emerging give Wally the Brecht treatment, imagined something of a tations and designing our annual and established style, proved to be transposing our cherished comic Lynchesque intrigue following a greeting card, to spreading The the perfect tone for this edition's hero in a dark world of strange mysterious lipstick trail. Word out on distribution rounds. colour-splashed fashion feature. settings and twisted tales. Quote Quote Quote Quote “Sorry I’m late again…” “Red. It forbids, excites, pun- “You may rest when I'm dead.” “It was a nice stay in the Red ishes, underlines, alerts and Room (all the rest is yours to stands out.” brechtvandenbroucke.blogspot.com fantasise about).” memymom.com EAU DE LACOSTE L .12.12 THE LACOSTE POLOSHIRT IN A FRAGRANCE COLLECTION 08:28 File: 631716-1_LAC_TheWord_295x210_KV.pdf Trim HxW: 295mm x 210mm 25/02/2011 Media/Insert: TheWord_295x210_KV Bleed HxW: 301mm x 216mm EAU DE LACOSTE L .12.12 THE LACOSTE POLOSHIRT IN A FRAGRANCE COLLECTION 08:28 File: 631716-1_LAC_TheWord_295x210_KV.pdf Trim HxW: 295mm x 210mm 25/02/2011 Media/Insert: TheWord_295x210_KV Bleed HxW: 301mm x 216mm 10 The blackboard Exhibitions Arts Music Shows Parties 01 02 03 04 06 05 08 07 09 11 10 th 01. The 10 Kitsuné Maison Compilation, dubbed the Fireworks Issue. Stand out tracks: Punks Jump Up’s Blockhead and Justus Kohncke’s Sorry (featuring Alexis Taylor). / 02. A red hot chili pepper. / 03. Chanel’s Rouge Coco Shine lipstick. / 04. Deep Throat (1972): a young woman who can’t have orgasms is told her pleasure point is nestled in her throat. You guess the rest. / 05. Atypyk’s Kiss, a makeshift lipstick stamp. / 06. Prince’s infamous 1999 album. Little Red Corvette is track number two. / 07. Our new intern Kathy suggested we add a pinch of Wild Hibiscus flowers to our end-of-week drinks, instantly colouring them red. / 08. Other red-faced magazines: Berlin’s 032c, an August 1990 copy of Brussels’ The Bulletin (featuring breakdancing crew Brussels Rap Convention on its cover), Redbull’s The Red Bulletin, the UK’s original The Word and, last but not least, NME. / 09. A red pen. The ultimate office essential come proof reading time. / 10. An infrared lamp. We can't quite imagine how we faced the biting cold winter days without this one. / 11. A nostalgic look back at the many (red) report cards we got at school. / All photography Yassin Serghini. Neighbourhood 11 Belgium ( 01 10 ) 01. breaking with tradition 03. The haunting faces of our past 01. The days of the autonomous, immuta- Born to a family of miners, Norbert ble and material nature of art are long gone. Ghisoland spent 40 years of his life photo- Celebrating this realisation with a big bang, graphing his peers from the Borinage region, Wiels has opened its space to young inter- at the start of the 20th century. By inviting national artists for whom a situation, event them in his studio to pose in front of exotic or action is the central medium. American backdrops, he was able to offer them a break performance artist Sharon Hayes (pictured) from their grim reality. Despite the lavish will show an installation of her staged demon- settings, details such as a missing button or strations in different cities and Berlin-based eyes filled with sadness betray the harshness © Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin Tino Seghal will present his latest brand of and precariousness of their living condi- 02. living sculptures, which has Wiels’ attendants tions. Acting as what could be described as spontaneously reciting the day’s newspaper an “accidental anthropologist”, Ghisoland’s headline to each visitor as they purchase their sole ambition was to project and offer his ticket. customers the image they had dreamed of for themselves. The result is at times entertain- The Other Tradition ing, at others deeply moving. Until 1st May Wiels, Brussels Norbert Ghisoland wiels.org Until 24th April Botanique, Brussels botanique.be * The PARTY YOu CAN’T MISS 04. one in, one out In a world saturated with images, our eyes pias Nites gorge on visual stimuli yet simultaneously © Courtesy Rodolphe Janssen Gallery @ Tour & Taxis (Brussels), on 25th and seem to bring on forgetfulness, every new sight 03.