|
Switch ingénue Mpho is the leader of a new pack of young, black London girls, who simply refuse to make the music that’s expected of ‘women of colour.’ She booms on new single Box ‘n’ Locks, “Feisty little brown girl / Raised in Brixton town girl /Supposed to be some ghetto chick / Making all this urban music,” which is a direct challenge to the industry that tried so hard to pin her to an R ‘n’ B style. Pigeonhole at your peril.
Little Boots has graced more 2009 magazine covers in the UK than any other pop artist. She got a lot in 2008 too. But 2009 was especially teeming. “The sound of 2009 and the potential saviour of pop,” bellowed NME on its predictions page, gushing about her acidic futurepop, her computer beats saturated with blips and twerps produced by Hot Chip honchos. Mooks meets up with the woman who came top of the BBC’s Sound of 2009 to see how she intends to continue her success throughout 2010. In February of this year, for the first time in its 25 year history, the BFC announced a MAN day at London Fashion Week. A day devoted solely to the glorious London fashions for men, and with it, at the LFW finale, it introduced an accessible art-inspired sports collection called New Power Studio. Nearly seven months on, NPS founders, designer Ebru Ercon and menswear stylist Thom Murphy, muse on their role in 2010’s fascination with all things sport. |
Locations & WritersLondon - UK
Cutting his teeth on architecture journals and writing reports on art and design for magazines including Frame, Damn, Architecture Plus and Elemente, Hynam now covers fashion and culture for London magazines Dazed & Confused, Esquire and Ponystep, for which he is Arts Editor. Berlin - Germany
London - UK
Melbourne - Australia
Tokyo - Japan
New York - US
Cape Town - RSA
Colombia - Colombia
Find Us On FacebookSubscribe to RSSDownload Widget |
|||
