I love black rhythms, and only one month after the great fun at Notting Hill Carnival, I once again found myself boogieing in London to some great musicians and irresistible beats. This time it was only slightly more civilized, as the venue were not the streets of West London, but the Afroreggae show in an auditorium at the Barbican. The music programme at Barbican always offers great quality and diversity, and they have been hosting the wonderful and colorful Brazilian Afroreggae crew for a number of years already.
As a fashion theory student at university years ago, I soon became acquainted with the works of social anthropologist Ted Polhemus. His thorough and unique approach has since the mid-1970’s set a milestone in the observation of streetstyle, urban tribes, underground cultures from an image/dress code point of view.
A meticulously detailed visual update to his works comes at the hands of Rotterdam-based photographer Ari Versluis and stylist Ellie Uyttenbroek and their imposing oeuvre Exactitudes, which is now showing at Selfridges in London.
A new huge space has opened in Paris only a few weeks ago, that promises to become a major cultural hotspot for the city, and one of the main ones in Europe.
Centquatre (104) is yet another conversion of a public space into an artistic project and boasts 26,000 m2 of art galleries, ateliers, two perfomance theatres, featuring 200 resident artists.
