Salon Kitty

Nazis, sex, power and death. Salon Kitty is a serious film. So it is quite sad that has found itself in the 'porn' pigeonhole - a misconception that certainly stems from the nerve the film hits that resonates so deeply in our collective psyche.

 

Coming Soon

The 'super-casual' Coming Soon is a cinematic, shadowplay, always-just-ahead-of-you collection created by Yohji Yamomoto and sinv spa, to become the first contemporary brand where the designer remains anonymous on the label. Timeless casual sophistication by the master of simplistic detail - fantastic news indeed.

 

Gonzales

"I’m not an artist, I’m an entertainer. Artist is a pretentious word anyway. An artist is a masturbator; someone who pleasures themselves. I’m here to pleasure the public."

 

Faust

As the legend of Faust (the band) goes, once upon a time, in either 1970 or 1971, a group of unknown avant-garde musicians somehow managed to score a lucrative record deal with Polydor….

 

17 by Bill Drummond

The 17 are a choir, dreamt up and made reality by Bill Drummond, writer, musician, dabbler and artist. This choir signposts the end of an era; the death of the importance of recorded music, and points towards a new era that Bill is trying to imagine into being…

 

The Gun is Loaded by Lydia Lunch

A dark ride through the twisting, disturbing world of Lydia Lunch who uses prose, poems, lyrics, photography and images to build an uncompromising and at times apocalyptic version of a disintegrating America. Here are some especially selected pieces for this issue of Flux.

 

Let Me Tell You a Secret

‘Double Agent’ is a touring exhibition curated by Claire Bishop and Mark Sladen which plays around with notions of authorship. When artists use other people, who is in control of the work and what are the consequences?

 

Flying Lotus

Bon Iver

Levi’s

Puma & Rob L

San Miguel Hidden Depths

Exceptor

Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip

Antwerp Assaults – Vitrine, Il Galantuomo and Pelican Avenue

Yoshiko Creations

Dennis Wilson

Wing and a Prayer with McQ

 

 

Regulars

Style Off

Sanyika’s Sneakers

Blogger’s Revenge

Fiction – The Leopard by Travis Jeppesen

Our Man in Manhattan

Flux Space - Untitled Space '2010' by Richard Healy

 

 

At the Front

 

Fashion: Gola, Rad Hourani, Chinemachine, Belle Sauvage, Belstaff Free Tibet Series, Boudicca Leather Carrier Bag, DC Shoes and Peter Saville, NIKE Country Split Windrunner, Dover Street Market, Hederus for K-Swiss

 

Music: Modernaire, Orphans & Vandals, Florence and the Machine, Hear O Israel, Techno Tree T-Shirt, 1/1 presents Chapter One, Diesel U-Music, Britain’s Next Urban Superstar, The Real Tuesday Weld ‘The London Book of the Dead’

 

Art, Books, Film, Design & Technology: Arttranspennine 08, ‘Instead of wives, they shall have toads’ at Horse Hospital, What are you looking at? at Chinese Art Centre, Best of Manchester, Arty Fanzine, House of Fairy Tales at Big Chill