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SUMMER
Summer 2012
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UNDERGROUND
006 Letter From the Editors’ FAULT gears up for Summer.
159 Directory
Look no further. 160 Last Word: Life Ball Join writer and stylist Avo Yermagyan on a trip to Vienna for Life Ball’s 20th anniversary celebration.
STYLE 008 Storm/Grace 014 020 022 026 028 030
Presley’s return is poignant, personal and forged by purpose. Dressing Room Jardin Games: The FAULT Paris team checks out the latest Summer trends. Tastemaker If you haven’t heard about Gemma Cairney before now, it’s about time you did. Reckless Love Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side. Call the Five-0 Grace Park on why filming in Hawaii is no holiday. School of Style Teaching sartorial splendour. Take Me Out Getting ready for a night out on the town has never looked so good.
UNDERGROUND 038 BLCK
Follow FAULT as we go Underground. 044 FAULT Focus Legendary music producer Jagz Kooner has worked with the likes of Kasabian, Primal Scream, Oasis and Massive Attack. 046 Pretty Young Thing Oh, you pretty things—don’t you know you’re driving your mamas and papas insane?
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124 051 Days of the Living Dead
A conversation with urban artist—and our guest editor for Summer—Rico the Zombie. 057 Planet Aqua Welcome to Planet Aqua.
MEN
064 Summer Swagger
Fashion, film, music: You name it, Soulja’s on it this Summer. 071 W Come on over to the dark side. 077 Finnish Flair Sauli Koskinen talks shop in an exclusive collaboration with FAULT. 084 Some Like It Hot Get ready, ladies: Jesse Metcalfe is back and better than ever before.
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Initially sought after for her vampish charm, Kat Graham is quickly attracting attention for her candour, creative vision and unbreakable work ethic. Under My Skin Take it all off this Summer. Soul Trader Judith Hill’s timelessly soulful ballads reach out to fans across the globe. Perfect Storm Try not to get swept away. A Pale Kiss Straining for restraint. Mirror, Mirror Who is the fairest of them all?
ART 112 My Own Worst Enemy
Will Sargeant: up close and personal.
114 Hunted
Don’t put your style on the line. 118 Behind the Lens Christian Hough, in his own words. 120 Shimmer All that glitters is not gold.
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Brittany Snow stole our hearts to feature on our front cover over some more established stars, and it’s easy to see why. King of the Castle Seamus Dever stars as Detective Kevin Ryan in the hit series Castle. Reece Ritchie The leading man in recent Britflick All in Good Time and costar of megabudget production The Prince of Persia is as anti-Hollywood as they come. Mischief Managed Evanna Lynch swears she is up to no good. Film Review: On the Road Walter Salles’s adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s seminal novel is fundamentally middle-of-the-road.
MUSIC
140 Austin Psych Fest
We love rock ‘n’ roll.
146 Never Forever
Singapore Sling goes back to basics. 148 Electra Heart Marina explains why she’s anything but a Primadonna girl. 154 Ghost in the Machine Ghostpoet gets ready for Round Two. 156 Summer Tracks Get ready to hit repeat.
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editors’ letter / the underground issue
GOING UNDERGROUND FAULT Summer 2012 is all about the Underground. Since FAULT started five years ago, we have always featured multi-disciplinary artists who challenge stereotypes that the wider media have tended to force upon them. In this issue, we strive to bring you the most fascinating public personalities who eschew typecasting and look to showcase another side of themselves—a side that is not always the familiar face they show to traditional media platforms. It is that side that we at FAULT deem to be Underground: the personal escape from the mundanities of everyday life and work, and a wholesale retreat from mainstream popular culture to seek something new, unexpected and inspiring. The concept has been well documented in the arts: Dostoevsky’s The Underground Man eschewed the incipient socialist philosophy that took root in Russia, preferring instead to embrace solipsism and bitterness against the accepted notions of “what is to be done”. The quintessential anti-hero, the Underground Man may not be a shining example for individualism in the face of the “big society”, but one of the prime ironies of Dostoevksy’s work is that The Underground Man’s proposed inertia in the face of the mainstream society’s ever-turning gears is, in itself, channelled into a work of astonishing creativity. From literature to lyrics: The Jam’s seminal track “Going Undeground” is—wait for it—an homage to the ideals of the Underground, with Paul Weller spitting out the words like “The public wants what the public gets / But I don’t get what this society wants / I’m going underground”. Weller, of course, was singing during Thatcherite Britain, a time that even the most logic-hardened Conservatives do not look back on with any great fondness. The British public warmed to Weller’s quasi-anarchic Mod revivalism in the face of some bleak times and even bleaker music. It is remarkable how dark economic (and subsequently social) times lead people to initially embrace fantasy and escapism before, eventually, taking stock— almost resetting—and going back to looking out for “number one”. Going Underground is a triumph of individualism against the societal machines, something for which creativity is both a prerequisite and a by-product. So who are FAULT’s Underground men and women, you may wonder? They are some of the most impressive creative people with whom we at FAULT have had the privilege to work. Lisa Marie Presley’s recent reincarnation for Storm & Grace is the epitome of the successes of going Underground. After a seven
year hiatus, Lisa Marie’s subtle yet powerful return to the industry is incontrovertible evidence for the value of taking stock, rejecting the previously accepted norm and reinventing oneself. Storm & Grace, Lisa Marie tells us, is a reflection of who she really is—as a person and as an artist. In her exclusive interview for FAULT, she tells us how the album came to be. As with Weller’s shouts and screams, there is an honesty and integrity in Lisa Marie’s words that shine through. (And perhaps even some lingering bitterness of Dostoevsky’s Underground Man, too.) Not to pat ourselves on the back too much, but we have also broken the mould for this issue. It is commonly accepted practice in “Hollyweird” (socalled by another featured talent—rising star Judith Hill) to feature the best-known name on the front cover. Thankfully for us (and, we hope, for you) FAULT tends not to suckle at the teat of accepted wisdom. We started as an Underground magazine, and we will stay an Underground magazine (in spirit, at least), and part of that is having the ability to include whoever we want to include, wherever we want to include them. Brittany Snow is a superbly talented actress—both in film and on television—and singer, and has recently hit the news in a philanthropic light after she founded Love is Louder, a support charity for young people. It is an interesting twist on the classic Hollywood blonde story, and we strongly believe that her outstanding feature and photo shoot merits pride of place in this issue. Sauli Koskinen is another whose inclusion may have brought derision from some corners (Adam Lambert fans will know exactly from where). His stunning shoot and willingness to collaborate with us in answering questions from his ever-growing number of fans should, however, change that attitude. Sauli is a man who has totally reinvented himself externally. He has certainly come a long way from working in retail in his native Finland. That being said, it is his force of character that has both taken him to where he is today but also, one feels, allowed him to be the same person that he has always been. Yes, Sauli’s fans admire him for his ability to take on so many disparate roles in the media, but they also admire him for his integrity, for what he says and how he says it and, most importantly, for who he is. That feeling of admiration for someone’s strength of personality is one that Evanna Lynch’s fans will know very well. The bubbly actress is another creative talent who has recently had to reinvent herself after she appeared so firmly linked to her character, Luna
Lovegood, in the Harry Potter series. We wish Evanna all the best! British leading man Reece Ritchie also features in our Film section for this issue, as does Dallas and Desperate Housewives hunk Jesse Metcalfe. We’re also proud to feature another actress who has taken the opportunity to reinvent herself and avoid being typecast. Despite all the adulation thrust upon her during her recurring role as Bonnie in cult U.S. series The Vampire Diaries, Kat Graham has turned public perception on its head by re-launching herself as a singer. We at FAULT always respect those talented enough to take on multiple aspects of the creative community, and we wish her well with what is so clearly one of her life dreams. While speaking of rebranding, it is impossible not to mention our Men’s section cover for this issue: rapperturned-serial entrepreneur Soulja Boy. Much has been made of the rap music industry’s ability to diversify their artists’ brands. Jay-Z’s Roc-A-Fella Records comes to mind, as do his seminal lyrics on the topic: “I am a hustler baby / I’ll sell water to a well”. By the same token, Soulja Boy is a man whose combined creative and commercial drive shows no sign of stopping. Jay-Z might have come into this a hundred grand strong, but Soulja’s story is a lot more interesting. The 21-year-old from Mississippi—not exactly the heartland of hip-hop—now boasts two fashion lines, a burgeoning acting career, and is about to drop his fourth studio album. He’s making paper, alright. We’re running out of space and, with any luck, you’re running out of patience and can’t wait to look further. If that’s the case, we’ll let you discover our one-off Underground section on your own—but expect some truly phenomenal collaborations with more internationally known talents, not least our Summer Guest section editor Rico the Zombie, Anton Newcombe from the Brian Jonestown Massacre and Rob and Christian from the Black Angels. All that, plus our film review, summer music picks, and a genre-busting exclusive shoot and interview with the impressively astute Marina and the Diamonds. Needless to say, this is one special issue of FAULT. Now that we’ve got your attention, hopefully you’ll keep the Underground message in mind. Remember that in every blinding light of convention, creativity can flourish in the Underground spaces. And if it’s not at the forefront of your mind during the sweltering Summer season, don’t worry. We’ll be here to remind you … This is your FAULT.
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style / lisa marie presley
Previous page: Lisa wears a jacket by Prabal Gurung (courtesy Barney’s NY, Beverly Hills). This page: Lisa wears a dress by Shareen and shoes by Sergio Rossi.
STORM/ GRACE Presley’s return is poignant, personal and forged by purpose.
INTERVIEW BY LEAH BLEWITT PHOTOGRAPHY BY MIGUEL STARCEVICH STYLING BY LUKE STOREY FOR ARTMIX BEAUTY PHOTOGRAPHY ASSITANCE BY RYAN CLEVELAND STYLING ASSISTANCE BY ASHLEY PAVA AT THE SCHOOL OF STYLE HAIR BY TROY PEPPIN AT OPUS BEAUTY USING SERGE NORMANT MAKEUP BY MELISSA WALSH USING BECCA COSMETICS PRODUCTION BY LEAH BLEWITT AND MIGUEL STARCEVICH SPECIAL THANKS TO BOBBI GALE AND ROGER WIDYNOWSKI
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TEXT BY KAT RUTHERFORD
Modern hair artisans hard at work in Paris. Step off the cobbled street of Faubourg St. Antoine into the spacious lobby of Franck de Roche’s academy in Paris’ 11th arrondissement, and you gain an instant sense of the harmony between tradition and modernity which rests there so comfortably. One of the fashion capital’s best-kept secrets of coiffage—the ancient art of rearranging hair—the Franck de Roche Academy is a pioneering mix of hands-on training and the perfection of expertise. Created a little over a decade ago by three enterprising coiffeurs, the institution began as an academy with the goal of practising excellent hairdressing and bringing future generations of coiffeurs up to this same high standard. Comprised of the three head creatives—Bernard Valéro, Christophe Adric and Franck de Roche himself—and an endless supply of enthusiasm from their apprentices (not to mention state-of-the-art salon technology), Franck De
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Roche has long reaped the benefits of this recipe for success. Often partnering in collaborations with L’Oreal Paris and other big names in the hairdressing world, times can become hectic for the team. Despite managing the day-to-day running of their business, however, there is no danger of the salon losing touch with its creative vision. Christophe Adric recently represented the salon along with apprentice Laurent Lassallette and associate makeup artist Charlotte Ravet in the realization of a high-impact FAULT shoot in Paris’ Buttes Chaumont Park. Mixing classic styles from the ’50s through the ’80s updated with his own personal dose of cutting-edge modernity, the collaboration marks the beginning of a creative partnership which promises great things for both artistic houses. From one visionary to another, FAULT will continue to watch the steady and always innovative at this establishment from across the Channel.
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DRESSING ROOM Jardin Games: The FAULT Paris team checks out the latest Summer trends. PHOTOGRAPHY BY HANS WEINHEIMER STYLING AND ART DIRECTION BY KAT RUTHERFORD HAIR BY CHRISTOPHE ADRIC AT FRANCK DE ROCHE HAIR ASSISTANCE BY LAURENT LASALLETTE MAKEUP BY CHARLOTTE RAVET PHOTOGRAPHY ASSISTANCE BY JODIE TALBOT POST-PRODUCTION BY OLGA LOGVINA MODELS ARE SARAH FORVEILLE AND ALEX SNIATKOWSKA
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This page: Sarah wears a dress by Lutz, a belt by Claudine Ivari and shoes by Gaspard Yurkievich. Opposite: Alex wears a dress by Lutz.
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