24.11.17 BRIGHT YOUNG THING… MEET ELLIE BAMBER FLASHBULB! Inside the ES PARTY picture VAULTS
LADBROKE GROOVY
Winning the Scene
Why WEST is where it’s at
How to Party
like a Londoner
The
Party Issue!
EDITOR’S LETTER
Editor in chief Laura Weir
Billy Scheepers; Alamy; Getty Images. Cover: Ellie Bamber photographed by Alex Bramall. Styled by Martha Ward. HALPERN dress, £1,425, at matchesfashion.com. CHANEL earrings, £17,500 (chanel.com)
Here are the ES team’s top five ultimate party venues
Because us Londoners are the coolest people in the world — an unequivocal fact — everyone wants to know how to party like us. We are, simply the best at having a bloody good time. We put the glitter into ball, the pull into pint and the style into late nights, and the inevitably painful mornings after. To find out how to party like a Londoner today, turn to page 31 for the ultimate guide to having it large London style — plus wave your Spotify app’s camera over page 35 to play tracks from our exclusive Kurupt FM’s party playlist. In the Nineties we, the world-leading ravers, set the pace and everyone followed our charge — from the Met Bar to the Atlantic, via Soho and the very best of west London house parties — and James Peltekian, ES Magazine’s 23year-standing, in-house party photographer has been there to capture every snog, shimmy and slip-up in all of its hedonistic glory. I wanted to pay tribute to James and his endeavours to capture the capital’s party spirit frame by frame over the past two decades, so I delved into the vaults to dig out some of his most iconic images: from Kate Moss and Noel Gallagher sharing chats and fags (inside, no less), to London’s It girls working the camera with naughty ease, the city and its fun-seekers seemed more relaxed in front of the lens back then in a filter-free and fabulous world. So turn to page 41 to revel in our Flashbulb: a retrospective in partnership with Moët & Chandon. Thank you to the champagne brand for putting extra fizz into this edition.
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10 DOWNING STREET ‘I love a house party and where cooler than Theresa May’s crib? Cool, you mock? With A$AP Rocky and Stormzy duetting, a smoked negroni luge and a retro foam party upstairs, we’ve got ourselves a knees-up. Brrrrp!’ Nick Howells, deputy chief sub editor
5 THE V&A SACKLER COURTYARD ‘After five years of construction, the V&A’s recently completed Sackler Courtyard is surely London’s most show-stopping new venue.’ Niamh O’Keeffe, office administrator/editor’s PA
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CHISWICK HOUSE AND GARDENS ‘This has to be my dream party venue — it’s one of London’s most beautiful and underrated stately homes. I would love to host a Marie Antoinette-themed fancy dress party and wander around the 65 acres of 18th-century splendour… champagne glass in hand.’ Natalie Salmon, social media editor
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THE TAPESTRY ROOM ‘Not just because The Rolling Stones (left) threw the coolest party ever in the Tapestry Room at the Gore Hotel… Okay, completely because The Rolling Stones threw the coolest part ever in there.’ Hamish MacBain, associate features editor
SKYLIGHT BAR, TOBACCO DOCK ‘Drinking, ice skating and partying while overlooking London — the ultimate venue for my January birthday party.’ Helen Gibson, picture editor
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FLASHBULB! Party pictures from around town by FRANKIE McCOY photographs by james peltekian Margo Stilley
Jan De Villeneuve
Esme Drummond
Charlie Casely-Hayford
Amber Le Bon
skates on The Strand
Lorraine Pascale
Stephen Jones
Daphne Guinness
Luke Edward Hall
’Tis the season to sip mulled wine and boozy hot chocolate while Luke Edward Hall and Laura Whitmore pull their best Bambi on the ice, as Skate at Somerset House launched with a brass band, Lou Hayter DJing and glorious piles of pigs in blankets.
Alexander Armstrong Jade Jagger
Laura Whitmore
Dominic Jones and Katie Keight
Kathy Lette
Vanessa Kirby
Eliza Cummings
Eve Delf
changing their spots The City
Lilah Parsons
David Furnish
Lou Hayter Charlotte Olympia
Daisy Lewis
Eve Henderson
Claudia Winkleman
Mary Katrantzou
A fierce roar of approval as the inaugural Leopard Awards, celebrating jewellery and its cultural influence, kicked off at Goldsmiths’ Hall with Gareth Pugh handing Daphne Guinness a Solange Azagury-Partridge-designed trophy and diamonds hidden under desserts for a lucky few. Beats a Christmas-pudding sixpence.
Amanda Wakeley and Kelly Hoppen
Ozwald Boateng
Alistair Guy Donna Air Amanda Cronin
Arizona Muse
Helen McCrory
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Venetia Scott and Osman Yousefada Katy England and Bobby Gillespie
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The return of the
wild west For a decade, west London has languished while all the cool kids flocked east. But London’s original party zone is getting its groove back, says Michael Hennegan
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‘I
was a Haggerston boy through it’s the influx of cool, party types who and through before we opened,’ make their way across the capital for says Chris Denney, 39, the chef Mark Ronson’s annual loft bash, the at 108 Garage — the Golborne soon-coming Soho House at the old Road-based restaurant that has BBC TV Centre in White City or the had foodies swooning more than opening of places like new members’ any other new spot in 2017. ‘Luca club, Laylow, west London feels more [Longobardi, his business partner] really alive than it has in some time. ‘I think had to talk me into coming to the area. When there is definitely a bit more of a party we opened I thought I could stay living east scene, which I’ve noticed spring up and have the best of both worlds.’ over the past six months,’ says Although the life of a chef doesn’t fashion designer Charlie Caselyleave much time to party, Denney has Hayford, 31. ‘There’s always indeed found the Ladbroke Grove area a been an energy here, but I’ve welcome change. ‘There’s a very warm, noticed a lot of friends transitioning chatty community here,’ he says. from east to west.’ ‘From the Moroccan fish guys next Having come of age on the social door to Pizza East to Galicia — they scene in Dalston and moving west East to west: bang on the window and come in and five years ago, Casely-Hayford is Charlie Caselytalk. It feels a bit like the late 1990s familiar with what makes a party Hayford in east London and I think you feel tick. ‘I’ve always been into going out that on the party scene, too.’ and when I moved here I felt a bit Certainly, there is plenty to deprived — but things seem to be suggest that this is the case. Whether kicking off. I think you can always judge
West is best: Portobello Road, above, and the former BBC TV Centre, left, where Soho House is setting up
West end girls: beauty dynamo Sharmadean Reid, left, and Shrimps’ Hannah Weiland
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THE kurupt fm MIX
The People Just Do Nothing crew lay down the ultimate party playlist Scott Garcia It’s a London Thing
fiesta after hours
When it comes to partying, there’s one maxim to follow: Be More Mexican. Luckily, the spiritual home of all wild night owls — and birthplace of tequila, the ultimate dancing till dawn drink — has influenced practically every bar worth its salt-rimmed margarita this party season. There’s the Ella Canta bar (above left) at The Intercontinental — it’s all about the ‘calavera’ (tequila, guava marmalade, grapefruit, lime) and the gold-coated grasshoppers. Feeling more Soho? Rave across town to the second Breddos (above right) and its underground mezcal ’n’ margarita den. Up north-east in Dalston, the new Del74 has thoughtfully/perilously introduced ‘pay as you pour sharing mezcal bottles’. And for proper party-starting, Mexican drinking food, hit Tienda Roosteria for its Triple Taco Tuesdays: three tacos and a beer for a tenner, leaving you ample cash for frozitas — its deeply dangerous frozen tequila negronis. Try the recipe (right) at home…
The perfect way to start any party. The tune is nice and smooth, but don’t be fooled — the bass will be sure to tickle ya very so slightly. We in the garage world call this a bubbler.
FROZITA RECIPE
DJ Luck and MC Neat A Little Bit of Luck
Try this from Tienda Roosteria. Multiply the ingredients by how many drinks you want and blend with plenty of crushed ice. Then, naturally, add edible glitter.
KISS ME
Come party season, it’s glitter, glitter everywhere, but Pat McGrath has upped the ante, launching LiquiLUST007, a lip kit that gives your pout the KiraKira treatment IRL. (patmcgrath.com)
25ml tequila 15ml Aperol 10ml Campari 25ml Cocchi Rosa 10ml sugar syrup 10ml fresh lemon juice
So Solid Crew Oh No My all time favourite So Solid dub. Some say MC Romeo’s dark side vocals took a lot of inspiration from Grindah. This tune always makes us move in perfect time to the catchy bassline.
Musical Mob Pulse X This one is what we in the scene call ‘disgusting’, which believe it or not is a good thing for us. This is one of the earliest forms of grime — it has stood the test of time and what an amazing stance it has.
Second Protocol Basslick (VIP remix) The track starts with some mad melodic s*** and makes you think it’s gonna be s***, then BANG, it hits you with the filthiest drop.
The ultimate singalong — this has probably got the best drop known to man, woman or child… in a singing tune.
Heartless Crew Heartless Anthem Heartless invented the word vibes and playing this will bring exactly that to any party. If they don’t react to this one then they don’t deserve to be at your party. Chuck ’em out and delete their number — you’ll thank us later.
Kurupt FM Get Out the Way This is guaranteed to tear up any dance floor or home floor or whatever. Play it right at the end. Don’t blame us if the place gets smashed up — just embrace it and be proud that you were a Kurupt FM ambassador.
To play these tracks scan the codes using the camera in the search bar of the Spotify app
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GET A ROOM! Can’t face the Uber trek home? Check in to one of these capital crash pads instead
The Pilgrim This is Paddington’s new cool kid on the block. Rooms from £109
The Ned Art deco splendour and a beautiful basement pool. Rooms from £180
The Berkeley OTT luxury — one for the East End set partying out west. Rooms from £550
The Bloomsbury The Russell Square stalwart gets a multi-million pound facelift. Rooms from £295
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Sharleen Spiteri and Erin O’Connor at the Serpentine Summer Party, 2004
Normandie Keith and Lucas White with Tamara Beckwith at her birthday party
Princess Diana at the Sunday Times Christmas Party, 1996
‘Parties were better when people could smoke inside — they were relaxed and intimate’ –JP
Zoe Ball working the room
‘Look — Kanye was taking selfies long before Kim!’ –JP
Donatella Versace and Kanye West at Locanda Locatelli, 2005
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Kate Moss and Noel Gallagher pre smoking ban at Steve Coogan’s party, 1998 Style maverick: Philip Sallon, 2003
Iconic: Victoria and David Beckham at the Versace launch party, 1999
Isabella Blow and Alexander McQueen at the Chapman brothers private view at White Cube Hoxton, 2011
James Peltekian with Caroline Hickman, Lucy Yeomans, Jo Craven, Luli Cordle, Martha Ward and India Waters at Chinawhite, 2000
Marie Helvin, Sir Elton John and Jerry Hall, 2001
Zig-a-zig-ah: the Spice Girls at the Capital Radio Awards, 1997 Yasmin Le Bon and Grace Jones at the MoĂŤt Chandon Fashion Tribute, 2002
James Peltekian and Agyness Deyn in front of a MoĂŤt & Chandon champagne tower at the British Independent Film Awards 2015
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All
eyes on
Ellie
She’s loved by critics, directors and fashion designers alike and has multiple films on the horizon. As Ellie Bamber stars in a new play at the Donmar, she tells Anna van Praagh that this is just the beginning
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t’s hard not to envy Ellie Bamber, she’s got the killer triumvirate: beauty — think a cross between a young Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore; talent — Tom Ford handpicked her for his thriller noir, Nocturnal Animals; and youth — she’s only 20. Oh, and she’s an ambassador for Chanel. We meet in a private room at members’ club Library on St Martin’s Lane on a chilly afternoon before Bamber’s evening performance of Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea at the Donmar Warehouse. The play, about a lighthouse-keeper’s daughter who is trapped in her marriage and longs for the sea, is directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah, who was recently appointed artistic director of the Young Vic. ‘Kwame is wildly intelligent, wildly bright, and just has the most incredible nature,’ she says, grinning. ‘I knew that I wanted to work with him.’ She shares a dressing room with Nikki Amuka-Bird and before they go on stage they dance around to relax. Bamber creates the playlist: ‘I like trap music, but then I like Otis Redding and Ella Fitzgerald, Georgia Smith — she’s really cool — and then I’m a big Stone Roses fan. I like rap music, I like A Tribe Called Quest.’
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‘I don’t really get nervous,’ she says in her soft middleclass voice when I ask about pre-performance nerves. ‘I just get really excited.’ Next year she’s starring on screen in Jason Lester’s substance-infused romance, Taipei, based on the novel by hipster American novelist, Tao Lin, and in Disney’s The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, which also stars Morgan Freeman and Dame Helen Mirren. Former roles include Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and, most notably, Tom Ford’s exquisite thriller, Nocturnal Animals, in which she performed alongside Jake Gyllenhaal, Amy Adams and Aaron TaylorJohnson, playing a daughter who is abducted on a road trip through Texas. Ford famously said of Bamber, ‘I had an immediate crush on her the first time I met her,’ and the feeling is clearly mutual. The fashion designer’s attention to detail is legendary, something Bamber said she loved ‘because they were things that I didn’t have to think about… he had these incredible mood boards. I remember we had meetings with him and I would have an hour’s session with him and talk about things like the accent. Obviously he’s from Texas, so he was able to give me a clear idea of what my own character’s upbringing was like. He was great with the direction, giving me notes. He would say, “Okay,
CHANEL jumpsuit, £11,570; ring, £7,300 (chanel.com)
FEAST
One too many? The fab Fable at Waeska
Drinking culture
Some of London’s best art is now found in its bars, says Frankie McCoy
Next time you’re sipping a reflective predinner Martinez or taste-testing the 23 artisan gins winking enticingly behind the bar, take a closer look at the walls. London’s bars are home to some superlative artworks from the sort of super-hip artists you become cooler by name-dropping. Even better, it means you can ponder photographic gems over pisco, titter into your gin at fantastical taxidermy, and tipsily wax lyrical about the genius of a Turner Prize-winner with a large glass of red in hand. Here are three drinking dens where you can genuinely justify your booze consumption as ‘culture’. Hassan Hajjaj’s work at Red Rooster
Waeska at The Mandrake
Fitzrovia’s snazziest boutique hotel bar takes its art really, really seriously. Owner Rami Fustok has plastered the walls with much of his own ‘mysterious, mystical and eclectic collection of art and artefacts that I have collected on my travels’. Hunt down Jonas Burgert’s dark, warped figures, then head to the bar and order a La Gloire de Mon Père — gin, Suze, fennel, verjus and ginger soda, all vegetal sweet — under the baleful eye of Enrique Gomez de Molina’s Fable. The psychedelic taxidermy chimera is made up of calf head, deer legs, peacock and pheasant feathers, beetle wings — as wonderfully twisted as it sounds.
Red Rooster
You can hardly see the walls for the artwork at Marcus Samuelsson’s bar and restaurant in Shoreditch, from Turner Prize-winning Chris Ofili’s
Afromuses series to Moroccan artist Hassan Hajjaj’s kaleidoscopic portrait, framed in upcycled 7-Up and Fanta cans. It’s a right old sensory overload when you add in the cracking playlist and guest bands (or the Sunday gospel sessions) and the groaningly good booze and food options — chase honey-buttered corn bread and devilled eggs with sweet’n’sour Harlem hellfighter (calvados, grapefruit, bitters and beer) or a bottle of New York Pinot Noir.
Coya Mayfair
Tyler Shields is the photographic darling of Hollywood (and a fave of Lindsay Lohan); now he has brought his oh-so-glossy provocative photos to the pisco haven of Coya Mayfair with Provocateur, a series of pictures showing the gleeful destruction of luxury products, such as burning Louis Vuitton trunks (above) and Chanel No 5 poured into champagne glasses. A clever comment on capitalism and celebrity? Discuss over the huge quantities of pisco, the Peruvian brandy that makes such dangerously fun drinks as the pisco sour, pisco royale (champagne-spiked pisco sour) or the wonderful chasca (pisco, coffee liqueur, almond lime and Angostura bitters).
HOMEWORK
Lario Magenta napkin, £7.50 (designers guild.com)
BY lILY WORCESTER
Cube dinner plate by Astier de Villatte, £145, at (summerilland bishop.com)
Champagne coupe by Lee Broom, £85, at selfridges.com
Plate by Bunzlau Castle, £16, at amara.com
Eyes valet tray, £68 (uk.jonathan adler.com)
Nuvola candle by Fornasetti, £150, at selfridges.com
table talk
Full Field linen place mat, £42 (summerilland bishop.com)
Can’t quite face going out? Then bring the party home. This season is all about creating a mood of cosy grandeur. Get the look by pairing opulent pieces with simple low-key textures. The newly opened Petersham Nurseries in Covent Garden is a treasure trove of decadent rustica — ditch the blousey floral centrepiece for an elegant brass girandole, or one of Matilda Goad’s heavenly ribbed wax candlesticks. And use linen napkins and place mats to offset the look — both Designers Guild and Summerill & Bishop have chic, vibrant options.
Bowl by Vanessa Conyers at Seed, £92.40, at trouva.com
Apple place card holders, £175 (smythson.com)
Vintage brass cart, £1,815 (sohohome.com)
Vita tumbler by William Yeoward Crystal, £150, at amara.com
Girandole, £540 (petersham nurseries. com)
Odyssey tray, £35 (liberty london.com)
Monogrammed thankyou notes, £35 for set of 10 (quilllondon.com) Candles, £35 for six (matildagoad.com)
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