08.09.17 taking on potus Tears & fears
The BBC man who squared up to Trump
The passion of
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EDITOR’S LETTER 5 Yoga raves and fashion to crave in CAPITAL GAINS 6 Laura Craik says everyone’s an icon now in UPFRONT 9 Our MOST WANTED is Bulgari’s snake-charming bag 12 Super VODIANOVA: Natalia on poverty, divorce and being a working mother
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19 Retro jeans and kaftan dreams in STYLE NOTES 21 Our man in Washington, JON SOPEL 24 The YOUNG ACTORS about to break big REFLECTION ROOM ‘For an immersive public art experience visit the V&A, where the London-based Australian light artist Flynn Talbot illuminates each end of the Prince Consort Gallery with his signature coloured light installations.’ Wendy Tee, acting art director
31 Fascia is the word you need to know in BEAUTY
EDITOR Laura Weir
35 GRACE & FLAVOUR is torn over The Wigmore 37 TART fry some courgette fritters 38 Soup up your stationery in HOMEWORK 41 ESCAPE to the UK’s university towns 42 Alice Temperley’s MY LONDON
Here’s what the ES team can’t wait to see at London Design Festival
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SET IN STONE ‘The Design Museum is unearthing marble marvels from 16-24 September, including a slide by Elemental and domestic objects by Michael Anastassiades.’ Katrina Israel, fashion features director
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SILENT ARCH ‘I love the idea of Silent Arch by Bharat and Jean, which makes reference to the redevelopment of Brixton’s railway arches and encourages visitors to reflect on an ever-changing urban environment.’ Helen Gibson, picture editor
THE MECHANICS OF DISBELIEF ‘Es Devlin is famous for designing stage sets for everyone from Beyoncé to Kanye West. I’m such an admirer of her work and can’t wait for her talk, The Mechanics of Disbelief, at the Design Festival.’ Anna van Praagh, deputy editor
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Natalia Vodianova grew up in grinding poverty and became one of the world’s top models. But she didn’t stop there. She tells Charlotte Edwardes about changing lives through her foundation, her relentless work ethic and why her marriage broke down
atalia Vodianova has the accent of a seductive James Bond v i l la i ne s s: hu sk y a nd indeterminate, her native Russian laced with Parisian fricatives. She’s probably a good deal tougher than Bond though, despite her bone-snapping appearance. She has a focused determination that seems uniquely Russian: unrelenting and hard. Whereas the cliché once belonged to gymnasts and piano players, Russia now seems to export these gritty female entrepreneurs whose work ethic makes us all look idle. Last time I met her she was eight months’ pregnant and wearing a sweatshirt over a bump the size of a bum bag. Two babies in the intervening three years and I detect a little concealer around the eyes, maybe a shallow frown line. At 35 she’s a mother of five (five!). Is she done? ‘For a while,’ she smiles. ‘I need to just make sure I do well with everything else I have on, which is a lot.’ Yes, well she certainly packs it in. There’s the modelling from which she made her name, a £20m career trimmed to an efficient 20 days a year. Then there is her Naked Heart Foundation, which has raised £30m since 2004 for children with disabilities. Four years ago she launched Elbi, an app which allows people to ‘micro donate’ by pressing a ‘love button’. She calls it ‘a
philanthropy collective’, happily reclaiming a word once soaked in communist propaganda. ‘It’s a very Russian idea,’ she continues. ‘You don’t have 100 roubles but you have a hundred friends. It’s the alternative to billionaires who donate to certain causes and who choose where this money should go. It’s about collective power.’ It’s tempting — oh, so tempting — to see her as another rich celebrity patronising the poor and relieving their consciences with ‘good works’. After all, she was married aged 19 to the aristocrat Justin Portman, 13 years older, whose family coffers pulsate with revenue from the large chunk of central London they own. Now she lives with the father of her two youngest children, Antoine Arnault, the son of Bernard Arnault, the owner of LVMH, worth £43.5bn and ranked the eighth richest person in the world. Arguably she has a Marie Antoinette existence in central Paris with a view of the Eiffel Tower from her apartment — C’est génial! — and any material thing her fluttering heart desires. But that is to oversimplify. Hers is a rags-to-riches story: a childhood below the poverty line in Nizhny Novgorod, a bleak and grim industrial city in western Russia. She and her mother, Larissa, were abandoned first by her father, then her stepfather after her half-sister Oksana was born with autism and cerebral palsy. Sometimes a sachet of dried soup was all she ate in a day. By 11 she was selling fruit by the side of the road. Cold,
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MY LONDON
ALICE TEMPERLEY AS TOLD TO LILY WORCESTER
What’s your biggest extravagance? I make 95 per cent of the clothes I wear so I spend money on shoes and jewellery. I love large rings by Jade Jagger (above), Solange Azagury-Partridge or Tara Agace. And impractical classic cars. I had to get rid of my 1969 American Ford T-Bird as it was so massive I couldn’t find many places to park it in London.
Last play you saw? I went with my best friend, Lara Cazalet, to see Requiem For Aleppo (above) by her brother David. It was a sell-out for one night only at Sadler’s Wells and was just at the Edinburgh Festival. It is very moving and it’s raising money for Syrian relief and the rebuilding of Aleppo. Best place for a first date? Dates should involve dinner, cocktails, dancing and ideally dressing up. So starting at HIX Soho and then carrying on into the night nearby where fun can always be found: the more unexpected the better. Earliest memory? Watching a veterans’ march when my grandfather was participating. I think I was about eight. It was just off The Mall around the back of Downing Street. We then walked up to Buckingham Palace where I remember both looking through the railings while holding my mother’s hand, and the red Liberty smocked dress I was wearing with a brown tweed coat. Who is your hero? Natalie Massenet (right) for starting
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The fashion designer would take a date to HIX Soho, goes for massages at FaceGym in Selfridges and sips Guinness at The Cow Net-a-Porter when she did, and now seeing what she is doing with Farfetch. She has been an amazing support to Temperley London since the beginning and shows you how you should get on with it. Building you’d like to buy? The old In & Out club near Green Park. I would love to convert it into a hotel. Or Winfield House in Regent’s Park would do for me: the garden is huge and I would make it into a magical woodland oasis.
Favourite London discoveries? Clifton Nurseries for potted ‘London’ trees and Retrouvius (left ) on Harrow Road for reclaimed furniture and amazing tiles. What do you collect? Fabrics, books, headdresses, embroideries, vintage glass crystal pieces and mix-andmatch tableware. Best piece of advice you’ve been given? ‘Longevity and sticking around is the most important thing,’ Calvin Klein told me.
Favourite pub? The Cow for Guinness and the best fish pie (right). The Groucho for early evening drinks… or very late nightcaps. What are you up to at work now? I am working on Temperley London’s new Summer 18 collection and have just finished my second book with Rizzoli, English Myths and Legends. Favourite shops? Les Couilles du Chien for interiors and sourcing on Goldborne Road, FaceGym in Selfridges for an invigorating massage and Le Creuset for kitchen stuff. Last album you downloaded? Plastic Beach by Gorillaz; Damon is a genius. I love the song ‘To Binge’. ‘Alice Temperley: English Myths and Legends’, published by Rizzoli, is out now
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Home is… I moved to Notting Hill when I went to the Royal College of Art and then I never left.