Volume 04 — Issue 04 Neighbourhood Life + Global Style Neighbourhood Up in smoke Life Deep waters Style Doing denim Music Out of the blue Culture Memoirs of melancholy + The Design Special The blue album G-Star Store Brussels Rue Antoine Dansaert 48 operated by rdb1 sprl 11214177 The Word BE 420x295 VB DPS.indd 1 8/16/11 2:28 PM G-Star Store Brussels Rue Antoine Dansaert 48 operated by rdb1 sprl 11214177 The Word BE 420x295 VB DPS.indd 1 8/16/11 2:28 PM 4 The editor's letter RADO r5.5 XXL / WWW.RADO.COM Publisher and editor-in-chief There was a point in the production phase of this edition where we Nicholas Lewis tinkered with the idea of interviewing Portishead for our music section. The band were just about to curate ATP’s I’ll Be Your Mirror festi- Design val in London and, as is the case with most summer revival projects facetofacedesign + (Pavement and Faith No More anyone?), the band kept popping up on pleaseletmedesign our radar for all the good reasons. Writers For starters, memories poured in the minute the Bristol threesome’s Guy Dittrich debut album Dummy was loaded into the player. Olivia’s house parties Rose Kelleher in Tervueren / Tervuren, teenage benders in Julie’s flat in Schaerbeek Nicholas Lewis and mix tapes that, at the time, went from Portishead and Mudhoney Philippe Pourhashemi to Rancid and The Fugees. The album was lodged in my collective Sam Steverlynck conscience of the blue, next to Massive Attack’s Blue Lines, Kool Robbert van Jaarsveld Keith’s Sex Styles, Del’s I Wish My Brother George Was Here and St Randa Wazen Germain’s Boulevard (yes, really). Indeed, Dummy’s cover art was also predominantly blue – both its front and back covers were exercises Photographers/Illustrators in colour-coded restraint, giving you just the information you needed Sarah Eechaut whilst still leaving lots to the imagination. Above all, going through Yana Foqué Dummy’s tracklist all over again was heart-warming and bizarrely Veerle Frissen reassuring. Like seeing that childhood friend of yours for the first time Ismaël Moumin in ages and staying up all night reminiscing about your first fag, your Melika Ngombe first flunk and your first fight. Memories. Some are good. Some are bad. Yassin Serghini Some are easy, others painful. Some you’d rather erase, some you’d Siska Vandecasteele prefer engraving on your arm. Virassamy Joke De Wilde And so it is with our blue album. It’ll wrap you in a blanket of nostalgic warmth, cosy up to you and bring a smile (sometimes a tear) to your Interns face. It’ll remind you of your teenage bedroom. Of that passion you Kathy Boros (communication) used to entertain for aquariums. Of that time you actually knew the Alex Chavot (graphic design) name of your neighbourhood cop. It’ll make you want to dig out those Joke De Wilde (photography) old VHS tapes of yours. It might even make you rollout the Rizzlas (blue, of course) and spark one up – just for old times sakes. For subscriptions (5 issues) Transfer ¤ 21 (Belgium), Add to that our design special, and its round-up on vintage design ¤ 30 (Europe) or ¤ 45 online galleries, and you could say we’ve been living in the past for the (Worldwide) last few months. We promise our next edition, the white album, will to account n° 363-0257432-34 see us return to our old selves though. But, just this once, it’s all about IBAN BE 68 3630 2574 3234 yesteryear. BIC BBRUBEBB stating your full name, email and postal addresses The blue album. A mirror vision of our past. in the communication box. Visit us Nicholas Lewis 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. All information correct up to the time of going to press. The publish- ers cannot be held liable for any changes in On this cover this respect after this date. © Veerle Frissen King fish sAd_Rado_Singlepage_JS_SNPSHT4863.indd 1 10.08.2011 15:56:37 RADO r5.5 XXL / WWW.RADO.COM sAd_Rado_Singlepage_JS_SNPSHT4863.indd 1 10.08.2011 15:56:37 6 The contents Neighbourhood STyLe The DESIGN SpeciaL 21 38 69 Le caillou bleu Meeting Dries Van Noten La Fabrika 22 46 74 Photographer Julie Calbert’s blue notes Giving in to temptation Open doors policy 26 50 78 G. Van den Berghe’s very own little avatar She’s the one wearing the pants Online design galleries Life MuSic culture 30 62 84 Teenage territories Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Pictures speak louder than words 34 63 86 IT’S YOURTURN HUGO JUST DIFFERENT The big blue Ghostpoet If only the walls could talk… THE NEW FRAGRANCE FOR MEN hugo.com shop online hugoboss.com FEATURING JARED LETO IT’S YOURTURN HUGO JUST DIFFERENT THE NEW FRAGRANCE FOR MEN hugo.com shop online hugoboss.com FEATURING JARED LETO 8 The contributors It’s a Word’s world Sébastien Lenouvel Joke De Wilde Yana Foqué Ismaël Moumin graphic design and illustrator photography intern photographer photographer A FILMMAKER Page Page Pages Pages 28 70 62, 63, 85 46, 47, 48, 49 © Persuado About About About About Current intern of our graphic Joke joined the team in May, Antwerp-based freelance photo- It only takes a quick look at his design team, we were told that eager to get to grips with the grapher Yana first popped up on blog roll to realise that Ismaël Sebastien possessed quite visual side of magazine-making. our radar with her cutesy and Moumin’s a rising star. Current the talent as far as ball pen She quickly settled in, getting intimate handwritten interviews first assistant to that other grand illustrations went. Having into the thick of it by her second in Q&A form she’d taken the daddy of Belgian fashion photo- is all it takes to win up to €15,000 contributed to the visual identity week, assisting photographers on habit of doing with certain artists graphy Pierre Debusschere, of the Micro Festival and other hastily put together productions (Twin Shadow, Efterklang, we first worked with Ismaël for 200 seconds worth of Nikon film equipment small-scale, but nonetheless and scouring the city for fake No Age and the likes) and which our March edition’s fashion prestigious projects, Sebastien wallpapers. Testament to the we published online. She has special, getting him to capture seemed like the right talent quality of her work, one of her since moved on to the magazine a selection of items in the most Nikon’s ‘I AM A FILMMAKER’ competition is for short films up to 200 seconds to turn to for our comical portraits even ended up on itself, this edition marking the suggestive and playful of ways. long. The competition is open to everyone, from students, pro and semi-pro illustrative page, the study. the cover of our yellow album. first time you’ll see her name in Then and there, we knew we’d be Interns – we don’t just ask them the masthead. working with him again in the filmmakers to advanced enthusiasts. Task to make coffee for us. near future. For the study, we commissioned Task Your entry will be judged by a professional jury So if you please both the jury and the public, you Sebastien to pen a parody of Task This edition saw Yana trek it Task the many proposals to purchase Living in Antwerp and having from north to south in less than The kind of photographer to which includes Jan Verheyen, Jaco Van Dor- could win equipment worth €15,000 ! Viagra we get in our inboxes a knack for portraiture, two hours to interview Totally enjoy a close complicity with the mael, Valérie Pierre, Rob Rombouts, Mark De The competition is open until August 31st 2011, everyday. Viagra pills being we commissioned Joke to Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs at girls he photographs, we knew blue, what better starting point photograph Veerle Wenes, Dour, chase Connan Mockassin a feature on tight-fitting hot Visscher, Jo Vermaercke and representatives full details about it at www.nikonfilmfestival.be, for a colour-coded piss-take? founder of design gallery for a throw-away exchange and pants would be ideal for Ismaël. from Brussels Short Film Festival and Gent which is also where you can upload your film Valerie Traan. photograph this month’s book He took two up and coming Quote selection for us. models to Tervueren / Tervuren’s International Film Festival and with the support and ask people to vote for it. The competition “In this edition, I wanted to Quote Arboretum, and simply did from Scam-Sofam. There are two prizes to be is being held in collaboration with the Brussels show the absurdity of advertising “‘Into the wide blue yonder.’ Quote his thing for a couple of hours. touting the merits of a product I was looking for blue sayings “I enjoy Sci-fi novels a lot – they We couldn’t have hoped won. The jury prize is €10,000 worth of Nikon Short Film Festival and the Gent International that makes a man ‘effective’ and to combine with my pictures put the future of the past on for better. film equipment and the prize for the most public Film Festival. A selection of entries will be shown ‘sustainable’ and play with the and I found this one.