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ISSUE 14
Be Creative
12 Lukas McFarlane 17 Festival Guide
18 Word On The Street 20 Martine Rose 24 Sara Silveira 28 Bly Richards 33 London Collections: Men SS14
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6 GoodLooks
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Hi and welcome to the fourteenth issue of L’ART; the ‘role model’ issue.
We’re still on a high from meeting and having talks with some pretty amazing choreographers from The Pulse UK tour that we’ve got a few more inspirational dance pieces for you to enjoy. The Pulse faculty members gave some valuable advice to all who attended so we would like to share that with you. We also caught up with Lukas McFarlane - 2014 Got To Dance UK winner - and there is so much to his story that you don’t already know. Take a look at his journey and what opportunities the show has created for him. Get your fashion fix with London Collections: Men, the beginning of Goodlooks, your top five festival items and a lot more, including a familiar face with Bly Richards. Daniella & Letisha
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head of next season’s London Fashion Week and the revelation of the A/W collections continuing the 2013 year of fashion, we thought we’d get into the swing of things and go behind the scenes. What better way to do that, than introduce you to the new hair and make-up business in town?
Talented ladies Katie Goodman and Naomi Barlow recently brought their skills and passion together, creating great occasion and bridal offers for women in the Oxford and London based area, with experience in advertising campaigns and fashion and catwalk events. Read on to learn of Katie’s favourite looks to create, the start of her working union and the celebrity she would like to get her
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Join us in preparation for the September 13th-17th week, look out for our live stream of LFW shows right here on our website (www.dlpublicationslart.co.uk) and let us leave you in the good hands of GoodLooks.
hands on… you may just be “We are in the early stages of surprised. collaboration, but hopefully we can build a solid brand for “I have been working Free- the future. I feel that worklance since January. I did my ing together and providing the course September 2012 and full package for weddings and studied at the Session School events helps not only us, but in London. also the consumer, as we save them the hassle of searching “I feel makeup is about build- for stylists and hair separately. ing a womans confidence on the inside. It’s more than just “My favourite look to create making someone look pretty. is vintage. I love the iconic The emotion and feeling be- flick liner and perfected red hind it is just as important. lip. I hope that more brides in Making you look and feel the future will dare to go there your best. with this look on their wedding day, as it is timeless and “Me and Naomi have been classic, which I feel is key for friends since school. She your wedding photos. has been doing hair for many years and excels in wedding “If you were to look back at hair. We thought it’d be the the wedding photos in 20 perfect set up to combine our years and see that your image skills in order to offer the full is current and on trend, that package. would be a winner.
“I also love doing a black smoky eye on a face that can take it, but of course this is not for everyone.
vibrancy to her make-up. It’s all very classic what we see in the media. She needs to be made up for once and take that skirt a little shorter than “I love volume; big hair with the knee… maybe even put a slight curl, best modelled by her in some denim hotpants, Cheryl Cole. but I think that may be taking it a bit far (laughs). “Our aim is to become a strong and trusted business. “Kate has beautiful flawless We want to provide the best skin, but wouldn’t it be great service possible. I would hope to see a little more than that? A that success would grow from heavy smoky eye and vibrant quality, from what people lip, with slick tight pony tail, see in our work. If we could dead straight. I think you get source a suitable photogra- the gist. I would also like to pher, there is always the ave- have a little chat with Britney nue of providing photoshoots Spears about her eyebrows!..” for families, friends and individual portraits, as this is very Connect with the pair here: popular. This is a very fresh katiegoodman-mua@hotand new venture, so I will say mail.co.uk that the possibilities are end- Facebook- GoodLooks & less. www.facebook.com/KTGoodLooks “I would really love to get Twitter@KatieGoodmy hands on Kate Middle- man83 ton. Even though her style is Instagram - KTGOODgood, it’s very stiff and royal. LOOKS I would like to add colour and
LUKAS McFARLANE
It may seem a long time ago for you, but what have you been up to since winning Got To Dance (GTD)? Since winning GTD the first thing I did was take a few days to let it hit me. It was quite unbelievable. Since then I’ve been trying to figure out what my next steps are; taking lots of meetings, exciting talks and seeing where I want to go next with this.
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You never really know how talent shows can contribute to a greater life for their winners. So we thought we would get the inside ‘scoop’ from someone who has lived it…
I’m planning lots of public appearances, signings and photographs; crazy celebrity stuff but I’m getting used to it. So tell us a bit about your background. What sort of training did you have? Growing up I trained in everything. I started dancing when I was six years old and I started with tap
dancing. Then I got more into contemporary, jazz and ballet. Then in my later years around 16 I started getting more into hip-hop and commercial. I trained at the studio back home in Calgary, Canada and did that every night from four to 10pm. Then I travelled a lot as well, took interventions and compete in competitions, turned 18 and graduated school and moved here. So what sort of career path were you expecting to have? I wanted to be a professional dancer and I did a bit of that when I moved here. At first it was very, very hard, harder than I expected. There were definitely weeks where me and my flat mate couldn’t even leave because we didn’t have enough money and we were eating peanut butter and crackers, wait
ing for some sort of paycheck! Then I started working after I broke X-Factor - which was in September - two weeks after the GTD auditions. That was when I was like ‘I need something’. After X-Factor I worked with the commercial dancers for six or seven months until the show started airing and that consumed my life. So I definitely got to the career path I wanted to be on. I was very lucky and blessed with my life as it was and now this even more incredible thing has happened to me and I can’t believe I’m living this life. How
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helped you as a dancer? The show has given me a platform that I didn’t have before to make a real difference. That is so cliché but I feel like now people have opened their eyes and this country has taken to what I did on the show. I believe that it was something new. Contemporary has always been seen as technical and ‘point your feet’, ‘stretch your legs’, big jumps and legs and turns and I just truly believe that you’re a human before you’re a dancer. I wanted that to come across, for emotions to be raw and to be very vulnerable on stage. The UK amazingly took to that so I think with this platform, I now have a chance to make a difference and go and teach these kids and open their eyes to a different side of dance.
So you left home to pursue your goals, what was your inspiration behind that? I was going to go to school. When I was 16 I wasn’t even going to be a dancer. I was working for a choreographer and a really great close friend of mine. He asked me what I wanted to do and he was like ‘Umm No, you’re going to be a dancer, you love dance’. That was the first time I thought ‘maybe I can do this’. After high school I wanted to go to school and train. I auditioned for schools, I got accepted to NYU and Alvin Ailey in New York and two weeks before the deadline I just couldn’t imagine myself doing ballet and modern for eight hours a day. I was just really
afraid that it was going to take away my passion and so I said no. My parents had a bit of a heyday but they’re happy now! I decided to move to London because the choreographer had worked a lot here and he said there was so much of a dance scene over there that we’re not exposed to in Canada. Everybody thinks ‘go to the States’ and there is so much over here (London). So I picked up my bags. I needed to build up the resume somewhere and work common law says it’s really easy to get a visa for over here, so I got my visa and headed over to try and make it as a dancer. And who in the PA world inspires you, what dancers do you look up to? There are some amazing dancers in this industry right now like Melanie
Where can people catch you now? People can come to my class every Tuesday from 4.30pm to 6pm at Studio 68, London. It’s an open class; a little bit more advanced but it’s open to all levels. I would love to have people in my class
Do you have any plans of branching out of London with your work? Well I’m always looking to travel and do things worldwide. I know the show (GTD) just aired in Australia and it airs in South Africa. I’ve already had interest in coming down there to teach. I will always go back to Canada and teach and the States, hopefully. If there are offers and certain people who want me, I’d love to be a part of travelling a bit more around the world. That would be amazing.
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It will constantly be updated and have live feeds to my Twitter and Facebook. People can stay in touch and message me and send me fan-mail. It’ll be a good way for people to stay in touch with what I’m doing.
I teach what I feel like. I don’t teach 500 turns and a million jumps or stuff like that. I’m a lot more ‘musicality’ and ‘movement based’ in my class. It’s probably a little different to what people see on the show, so I would love to have anybody who wants to come to my class. That would be great!
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Do you stick to a certain style or do you switch it up?
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who want to be there and who want to learn.
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Moore and Alex Wong. The people who inspire me are my friends. One of my biggest inspirations in the world is my flat mate. We have trained together and worked together so much and he inspires me everyday. Some of the people that I am blessed to dance with everyday are the people who I look around in a class and that’s what inspires me.
Word On The Street
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head of The Pulse family’s summer workshops, get your questions answered with important tips from creative director and professional dancers Carmit Bachar, Brian Friedman, Laurieann Gibson, Cris Judd and Sisco Gomez. Plus some great knowledge...
AUDITIONS Do your best to get the choreography Do your research Show potential, energy, drive, presence & let this take over Show a want for your gift and dance for your life Don’t audition before the audition Come prepared Don’t back up when approached & give away your power Step to the front and step in with what you’ve got
ALWAYS REMEMBER Put yourself in front of the people you want to work with Train and push YOU Make good use of YouTube, music videos and dance cities LA, NYC and London Live what you love, love what you live
REJECTION AND NO WORK Know that you’re born to do it, you have what you need, love it Go through the drought and take a class and get physical Advance yourself and persevere Be versatile with your look and talent Know that you’ll experience more rejection than acceptance Learn from rejection. Be known, not go down the fast track lane It’s down to preference of others and what they’re looking for
DIET Be healthy Get your food groups Cut out fried food and bad sugars
KNOW YOUR CRAFT. DO YOU KNOW? Debbie Allen… Best known for her role in musical drama Fame. Alvin Ailey… Founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre NYC and instigated the inclusion of African-American’s in dance. Michael Peters… Work includes Donna Summer’s ‘Love To Love You Baby’ and Michael Jackson’s ‘Beat It’ and ‘Thriller’. Vincent Patterson… Work includes Madonna’s Blond Ambition Tour, Michael Jackson’s Bad Tour and ‘Smooth Criminal’. Michael Jackson… Earned the title the ‘King of Pop’. Global figure who broke barriers for African-Americans and has the best selling album of all time, Thriller.
MARTINE London based designer Martine Rose has exactly what the men are looking for. Why? Because she has the ability to put together a range of styles for them to try and wear with confidence.
longer to find your area of interest. Can you guess which category Martine fell into?
When growing up, you usually fall into one of the two categories. You either have a strong idea of the career path you want to take, or you take slightly
“So we designed for girls like us, then the label grew to include menswear also. Now the label feels like an extension of that growth.”
“It wasn’t really a clear decision that I made, it was a much more organic Martine is a designer who thrives in the growth,” said Martine. I guess it is simcategory of men’s street wear and due ply my aesthetic. When I was one half to this talent, she has managed to have of LMNOP, our clothes were essentially her work on show at London Collections: unisex as both Tamara and I wore boys clothes all the time. Men (LCM) for all to see.
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And it’s not just you who looks forward to these big fashion events like London Fashion Week (LFW) and LCM, as Martine is just as excited. One thing she can’t wait for is the energy and buzz in London. “It is so new, it has a really fresh energy and interest. It’s great!” So don’t be afraid to show the same level of love to Martine as she arrives.
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International fashion house Brown’s is also part of that growth, as Martine has recently started a collaboration with them. “The Browns Project came about after AW13. We had a meeting and started batting around some ideas of pieces that would work for an exclusive capsule collection. “It was very exciting, I really enjoy collaborating, and so it felt very collaborative. I went away and designed some pieces, we tweaked a few things and the results will be in store in June!” Have you seen the results? There really are some great pieces available and Martine has been heavily influenced from the pieces that really stood out from her AW13 collection. So what has inspired Martine this time around for LCM? “Inspiration this season comes from looking at interiors. I have developed a new obsession stemming from my new relationship with Ligne Roset, which started last season; more exciting stuff happening with them too! “I’m really interested with the different styles of furnishings that exist, and how people use these styles to decorate their personal space. How we choose to decorate the spaces we inhabit is deeply entwined with our relationship with our exterior world, I find this so interesting.”
Last year Martine used a range of bright colours and denim separates, so we had to get an insight into what she was going for this time around. “I like when anyone owns what they are wearing and looks comfortable. “That by no means that the garment has to actually be comfortable to wear, more that it is somehow connected to who they are, rather than being dressed fully by a designer or stylist. It has to be personal always!” This isn’t the end to Martine’s work this year. After LCM look out for ‘more special projects, surprising collaborations, more work!’ Plus if you want to get your own pieces of Martine’s work, you can buy all garments from London, Japan, L.A, Hong Kong and Korea. Talk about an international talent!
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ith an admired vocal talent, an acoustic hit on SBTV and opportunities & additional performances on Channel 4’s Youngers, Sara Silveira has a lot to look forward to. As one of Oxford’s admired singers, particularly following the release of ‘Lose My Love’, Sara reveals there is more where that came from as she eagerly anticipates her new music releases. Read on as we learn about her musical start, her secrets to writing the ‘perfect’ song and who she’s rooting for in this year’s The Voice UK...
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Sara Silveira
lously early hours of the morning, playing her Tina Arena tapes full blast and singing at the top of my lungs (laughs). I’ve just always loved music. You also write songs. Describe the musts in this process for you when creating a great song. Anyone can write any song under any circumstance, but it doesn’t mean its going to be good. Trust me, I’ve began writing some songs and left it for another day. I believe that you need to be inspired by something, anything. A feeling, someone else’s feeling, a film, another song, the production, an instrument, a story, or the best… exactly what you’re feeling. Good, bad, fun, angry, sad; there’s nothing better than organically made music.
Where did the love for music and singing start for you? I literally cannot say that it started at any particular point. I’ve loved music and singing my entire life! We love ‘Lose My Love’ and its acoustic vibe. What was I used to wake my mum up at the story behind the making three years old a lot at ridicu- of this track?
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recording experience. Exciting! SBTV is such a platform for up and coming artists. Don’t get me wrong, it’s also quite a bit nerve wracking because you have to get it right all the way through, no mistakes and try not to look sh*t (laughs). I really enjoyed it and would love to do more. Also the response was a-mazing! What are you currently working on? The Live EP, the album and lots of writing (not just for myself).
Thank you very much! (Blushes and laughs.) The acoustic versions of ‘Lose My Love’ on Youtube and SBTV are exactly that, acoustic versions of the track. With the ‘real’ one, I came to the studio one day and told Skitz (Aiden Hogarth aka S.K.I.T.Z Beatz) I had written a little something, but I had an idea for how I wanted it to sound. I did a few really basic chords on the keys how
I wanted them, mentioned James Brown (laughs), then I sang to him. It’s like he just knew. We were then bouncing off each other for the rest of the session and then we had a pretty definite skeleton for ‘Lose My Love’. Then you bring in wonderful musicians and they’re live instruments... And it made its way to SBTV! Talk us through that
Who are the top three artists playing in your music catalogue right now? Iggy Azalea, JoJo and Solange. We see you tune into The Voice UK when you can. Whose team would you want to be on and why? Jessie [J] because she’s a vocal beast and could teach me so much. Also she writes with one of my writing heroes Claude Kelly, so I believe she would understand the vision and passion for my music. will.i.am and Tom [Jones] are amazing too, but it’s about where you want your musical career to go. Who can help you become a better you!
Do you have any new material coming out soon? I don’t have an all systems go date yet, but I can just say it’s getting nearer and nearer! Ex- Are you detecting any early wins or supporting anyone citing! in particular? Who would you most like to I really adore some of the vocalists on there, but I used to collaborate with? Any artist/producer that really enjoy Cleopatra and makes me go wow!... Aloe Nate James. I just want them both to do well! Blacc.
Bly Richards
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n June 9th, dance lovers and those passionate about their training experiences can get themselves down to Oxford’s Pegasus Theatre and enjoy an afternoon of House dance with professional dancer and choreographer Bly Richards. Teaching the foundation of the style, its history and helping students to pick up choreography & freestyle, Bly is looking forward to bringing one of his favourite styles to Oxford. “There’s no restriction. I love the music and the different techniques within the style,” he expressed. Those of you who tuned into possibly one of the first dance competition shows to air on television will remember the Bump and Grind winner from series two, who originally entered the competition on a whim, whilst accompanying a former dance student of his for moral support. “He’s more outgoing than me, he entered the year before, [went] again and wanted me to go with him,” Bly explained. “On the day I decided ‘what
Due to his confident attitude, you can now find him teaching workshops five times a week (except Wednesdays and Sundays) in between his weekly running of his clothing line Following the 2006 win, op- [Camy Clothing], which was portunities to appear in mu- specifically set up for dancers. sic videos alongside artists Rachel Stevens and Madonna “I don’t like buying other arose and his foot was in the people’s clothes,” he laughs. door when it came to training Good enough reason to start in London’s renowned Pine- your own line right? apple Dance Studios. Next season Camy ClothWanting to pursue a working ing will be introducing new relationship with the company items in the form of Track & and founder Louie Spence, he Varsity Jackets and jogging was able to make the most of bottoms, preparing dancers this advantage and bring his for the change in climate and abilities in the art to the table. revamping their dance wardrobe, as performers will know, “I started to go there to take you can never have too many classes, they started putting dancewear items. together a Pineapple dance group which I was a part of Bly was introduced onto our and I asked about teaching.” screens at a time where many
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the hell, give it a go,’ and following this spontaneous decision, he earned the title of Bump and Grind season winner!
popular talent shows hadn’t even been thought of. Today the platforms such as Sky 1’s Got To Dance (GTD), ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent (BGT) and the BBC’s So You Think You Can Dance continue to give highly talented dancers avenues for recognition and impressive career opportunities, but what does one of the originals think about today’s entertainment shows? “I think it’s great. BGT and GTD have boosted the want
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for people to get into street dance and to want to learn more of what it’s about, so it definitely helps the culture.” There you have it. Don’t forget to join the Body Politic family as they host Bly’s workshop this month at Oxford’s Pegasus Theatre, or simply drop in to one of his weekly Pineapple workshops. House lovers will not want to miss out!
June is the month for all the fashion focus to be on the men, as London Collections is back in town. London Collections: Men will be taking place in London from June 16th to June 18th and over these three days, British brands and businesses will provide you with the most current creative looks and talent that they have to offer. This is one of very few long weekends that you get to see ‘the breadth of British fashion talent, from the world’s most innovative emerging talents to global menswear brands and Savile Row tailors’. So get ready to cast your eyes on the SS14 collections that have been so well put together from designers such as Rag & Bone, Alexander McQueen, Savile Row & St James, Lee Roach, Agi & Sam, Lou Dalton, Tom Ford and more! Although there are many parts of the schedule that you would not want to miss, there are some very exciting private invitation events also taking place. The Esquire and Jimmy Choo party is the last big event on the Sunday night, as well as the BOSS cocktail reception
and a celebratory London Collections: Men dinner hosted by Jonathan Newhouse and Tommy Hilfiger on Monday night. But do not despair, if you don’t have the special entry tickets to these events, because you still have plenty of British
pieces to get stuck into from the long list of London’s most amazing designers. So with not long to go until the first day, we’ll be looking out for what incredible looks they create for the next season.
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