WORK IN PROGRESS: PROJECT SPACE LEEDS

WORK IN PROGRESS: CARLSBERG-TETLEY BREWERY

“This is my studio space,” photographer and artist Stephen Iles told me as we stood outside the former Carlsberg-Tetley Brewery headquarters on Hunslet Road in Leeds, which is currently being up-cycled to house Project Space Leeds, a new space for the contemporary art and culture organisation. The new gallery and learning space has acquired the Tetley namesake in remembrance of this robust heritage site. The Tetley will open this November as one of the few buildings remaining on the brewery site. Photographer Peter Mitchell described the structure as “Northern Sober”, fitting with the building’s dependable craftsmanship.

In 2011, conversations began talking place about turning the Carlsberg-Tetley headquarters into a new locus of independent contemporary art in Leeds. Carlsberg, who bought the Tetley building in 1993, ceased production mid-June of 2012. Following this, construction began at the site for Project Space Leeds’ new home, called simply The Tetley. After closing Project Space Leeds last year, directors Kerry Harker and Pippa Hale have been working closely with Simon Baker, manager of Chetwoods Architects’ Leeds office, to develop a gallery space, learning centre and a café and bar in the heritage site.

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Photography © Stephen Isles

AESOP: MORPHE

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The ever-innovative Aesop proves once again that it is no average beauty brand with the release of its first short film today. As part of its continued support for innovative design and art, the Australian label has collaborated with Amsterdam-based artist Lucy McRae to create a visual delight that examines their shared interest in the collision of science and nature. Inspired by the physiological principles of 19th century scientist and philosopher Herman von Helmholtz, who once wrote that 'everything is an assault on the skin', McRae's mystifying film portrays a scientist meticulously administering a series of beauty treatments to his sleeping muse. Filmed within a church in Amsterdam, refashioned to resemble a fictitious Aesop laboratory, the three and a half minute piece poetically discusses the brand's unique union of technology and nature in McRae's captivating trademark aesthetic. The Amsterdam-based McRae has long possessed a predilection for the human body, which can be traced back to her time as a ballet dancer and has more recently manifested in the development of her Swallowable Perfume.

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RICK OWENS: FURNITURE

RICK OWNES FURNITURE

Despite labels such as ‘anti-fashion’ and ‘avant-garde’, the gritty elegance of Rick Owens’ restrained, highly personal designs has given him a fanatical following among fashion mavericks, a certain kind of celeb and rock stars, not to mention a Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award. His edgy, asymmetrical and dramatic fashion designs often feature sculptural lines and draping, so the Californian’s move in to designing muscular gallery furniture was eminently logical. Featuring marble and bronze, antler, wood and bone, his beds, chairs and loungers are as brutally honest in construction as his clothing.

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Photography © Rick Owens

FRANCO FRONTS GUCCI

JAMES FRANCO FOR GUCCI EYEWEAR

After decades of anonymous playboys, men's fragrances have caught on to what had seemed a women's only phenomenon and are enlisting an army of actors. A star studded cast that would make any Hollywood producer green with envy. Now, in a similar vein, The James-Deanian James Franco, who fronted the brand for Gucci by Gucci for Men when his star was rising, has again loaned some of his stardust for Gucci's latest campaign, a nod to the brands heritage bamboo aviator frames. Shot by mavericks Mert & Marcus the dressed-down campaign is calmly set in Hollywood with Franco in a relaxed stonewash denim shirt driving an aptly vintage red convertible. Gucci bamboo sunglasses available from October.  

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Photography © Mert Alas and Marcus OPiggot

FANTASTIC MAN: THE ROUND UP

SPRING 2014 MENSWEAR x FANTASTIC MAN

1. NEW FASHION'S!, CRAIG GREEN, 17TH JUNE 2013

2. WEARING J.W. ANDERSON, 18TH JUNE 2013

3. SHORT IDEAS, JIL SANDER, 24TH JUNE 2013

4. EXCITING SHOES, RAF SIMONS, 1ST JULY 2013

5. THE MONOCHROME LOOK, LANVIN, 2ND JULY 2013

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Source: FANTASTIC MAN, The Daily Recommendation