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EDITOR’S LETTER Happy New Year and welcome to issue 5! It’s been a very exciting and busy few months at SLiNK HQ and we’re beyond thrilled that we can now offer you SLiNK magazine in print too. This issue is The Relationship Issue; being February, the month we’re inundated with Valentines day, we decided to look at not just those cliche ideas but also the relationship that we have with our bodies, families, children, food and clothes, find all of our amazing features inside! Of course this issue is packed full of hot SS12 trends and 3 great fashion stories; don’t forget to check out our interview with America’s Next Top Model winner Whitney Thompson and Canadian based brand ‘Allistyle’. I’d also like to welcome to the team our new NYC correspondent Kellie B from Fatshion Insider and our new Accessories Editor, Ashanti Jason. Finally, thank you for your continued support. We hope you grab a printed copy of SLiNK via our website and love it like we do! Here’s to a fabulous 2012 for every single one of you. Xxx Rivkie Baum
Alexis Bicknell is an Aussie PR girl eating her way through London. Forget the bar, she goes straight for the food and is found trying new eats around town with her chef boyfriend. food@slinkmagazine.com Rivkie Baum, Editor in Chief, is a Design and Pattern Cutting graduate from the London College of Fashion. She works as a freelance fashion journalist and stylist and launched SLiNK magazine in April 2011. editor@slinkmagazine.com Milly Jackson is a national award-winning fashion designer Samantha Mire heads up SLiNK and illustrator. She has recently magazine’s graphic design and illustrated for premium womensuring the layout is always enswear brand Whistles and is done on time. A Brunel ‘Product a regular contributor to various Design’ graduate, Samantha unfashion magazines. See more of dertakes freelance commissions. her work at: samanthamire@hotmail.com www.millyjackson.com Kellie Brown is Founder of Dee Andrews has a degree in NYLA, a public relations and Fashion Illustration and has studintegrated marketing firm, and ied Fine Art. Dee loves drawing fashion blogger. In her Slink fashion and portraits but is also Magazine column, ‘Fatshion In- a calligrapher and hopes to have sider’ Kellie B. dishes the skinny her own range of greeting cards on fashion beyond sample size. one day. She is available for freewww.fatshioninsider.blogspot. lance commissions. com kellie@slinkmagazine.com www.deeandrews.co.uk
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Stephen Geraghty tackles the photography for SLiNK Food with mouth-watering results. Stephen is a portrait and lifestyle photographer originally from London, now based in idyllic Norfolk. www.stephengeraghty.co.uk Willa Gebbie is a designer/illustrator with a love for illustration, print and pattern. She lives in London, working from home, drinking tea and teaching yoga in her spare time. www.willagebbie.com
Simon Henbery (Head of Food) has spent the last 16 years in some of London’s top kitchens including time as Head Chef at Jamie Oliver’s ‘Fifteen’. He currently heads the kitchen at the Chelsea Brasserie in fashionable Sloane Square. food@slinkmagazine.com
Jeffrey Michael (Features Editor) Hunts down designers, celebrities and international models to bring SLiNK readers the hottest interviews. Jeffrey is a designer, launching his first collection at LFW Feb 2012. www.jeffreymichaeldesign.co.uk Katie Antoniou (Culture Editor) features@slinkmagazine.com is Editor of London arts and cul- jeffrey@slinkmagazine.com ture site Run-Riot and a contributor to The Guardian. In her spare time, she continues her research into time-travel and teleportation. Volunteers always needed. culture@slinkmagazine.com Ginny Weeks (Beauty, Travel and Motoring Editor) has interned at the likes of Vogue, Tatler and Harpers Bazaar, before working at trend forecasting site WGSN. She has also had a life long obsession with cars, which has resulted in her motoring section for SLiNK, a bold and unique feature written especially for women. Ginny also works as a freelance editor and writer on various fashion and beauty titles. beauty@slinkmagazine.com cars@slinkmagazine.com travel@slinkmagazine.com
Ashanti Jason (Accessories Editor) is primarily a full time mother of four, but also runs the Fashion Beauty, & lifestyle blog Adorngirl.com If that’s not enough she puts on more fashion hats as an illustrator, photographer and UK Fashion Features Editor of magazine Runway Passport. www.adorngirl.com ashanti@slinkmagazine.com
CONTENTS
Cover Credits Photography - Dave Wise Styling - Rivkie Baum Model - Alice @ Milk management Hair - Paula Mann @ Models 1 Make Up - Lauren Baker
The Relationship Issue 6 The Carrie Bradshaw Generation
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Alice In Wonderland 8 My Relationship with...My Food
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My Relationship with...My Body
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SLiNK Meets...Whitney Thompson
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SLiNK Meets... Allistyle 31 Speak Easy 34 Trends 40 Accessories 52 My Relationship with... My Accessories
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New York Calling 54 My Relationship with... My Child
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My relationship with... My Family
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Beauty 59 Tried & Tested 66 Culture 72 Travel 75 Food 84 Restaurant Reviews 92 SLiNK Motoring 94 Next Issue 99
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
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Photography: Dave Wise Styling: Rivkie Baum
Photography: Dave Wise Styling: Rivkie Baum Model: Alice @ Milk Management Makeu Up: Lauren Baker using Chanel Cosmetics and Dermalogica Skin care Hair: Paula Mann @ Models1 using Paul Mitchell Hair Care Location: Callooh Callay www.calloohcallaybar.com Special Thanks - Jeremy
Corset - Asos (Customised by Stylist) Skirt - Beyond Retro Necklace - New York Couture Hair Pieces - Decorations from a selection at Paperchase and Stylists Own Socks - Topshop Shoes - as before
THE RELATIONSHIP ISSUE...
When we chose to call Issue 5, “The Relationship Issue” we were obviously aware that we would come out around Valentines Day but as we have feminists on the team we didn’t feel that lending a whole issue to the February obsession with ‘love’ was for us. After all, for all us single ladies out there who are taking care of business by ourselves, it is the relationships that we seek in our friends, family and colleagues that get us through the day, not a conventional 21st cen-
tury ‘partner’. We are who we are because of the relationships we form, be it with people or material objects. It doesn’t matter if you believe in nurture over nature or vice versa, it is the bridges we build and burn that ultimately form our characters and life choices. In this issue we challenged our writers to look beyond the norm and open up about the different relationships they have with Family, Body, Food, Fashion and Children, to explore how
wide the topic of ‘relationships’ really is. Now of course we can’t completely ignore the Valentine’s theme, as Koral Webb explores how 21st Century ‘Single Gal’ Carrie Bradshaw has paved the way for modern day, shoe loving feminists, who struggle to juggle career, love and friendship. Has she turned us all into demanding, Manalo wielding divas? So join us on this path discovery. Take some time, reconnect, as after all at the centre of all your relationships is YOU.
THE CARRIE BRADSHAW GENERATION
Words: Koral Webb Illustration: Dee Andrews
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A new year, a new life. Or so the legend of the new year’s resolution has it. I heard a fourteen year old girl in my local shopping centre tell her other gal pals, “My new year’s resolution is to stay single for the whole year.” It looks like she’s got the right idea. Forget happily ever after. There are a number of factors stopping us meeting our Mr Perfect like the heart-wrenching, butterfly inducing Noah from the Notebook. Do guys like him even exist? Or is romance well and truly six feet under? Young couples are struggling to hit it off, with youth unemployment at a record high. As just under a million young adults aged 16 to 25 are without a job, is there any room for romance within the lost generation? At this rate guys need every day to be an ‘Orange Wednesday’ to be able to get the girl and, quite frankly, even a night at the movies just isn’t going to cut it with our new seemingly impossible expectations of men (thanks Disney) who will more than likely fail to deliver. Women of today are focused
more on their careers than ever before. Perhaps it’s because of the added pressure of the economic slowdown and the daunting reality of having a family, mortgage, a successful marriage and a career which come at a very high price. Sometimes it is better to cut your losses. Maybe the concept of the nuclear family is well and truly lost in the UK as we find ourselves flat sharing with friends, becoming independent and saving the settling down until later. After all this is a generation of women with Carrie Bradshaw for a role model. A hot mess of career, friendship, men and a wardrobe to die for, it was inevitable that we would become fixated on ‘having it all’ and no compromise allowed. An independent, successful woman can make or break a man. Male pride is one of those things that us women always find ourselves tiptoeing around, but sometimes circumstances just can’t be helped. Having been in relationships where my income is larger than my partner’s inevitably we come across the
dreaded question, who pays for dinner? Traditionally he should, yet financially I should. Most of the time he couldn’t, so I would. Then we both ended up feeling awful, him for not paying and me for denting his self-esteem. Safe to say, I’m now single, so I’m buying my own dinner, at half the price. With divorce rates up 4.9% last year according to the National Data Collection, this matches the statistics from the bleak economy of the seventies. As Thatcher tipped Britain into the slippery slope of recession jobs were few and far between, causing an immense strain on relationships. Sound familiar? There are copious amounts of negativity surrounding love in this day and age; relationships are harder to sustain but that doesn’t make them impossible. It’s a waiting game ladies, that’s for sure. If it can happen to Kate Middleton then it can happen to all of us. Until then, blame Carrie Bradshaw as you choose your Manolo’s over a man.
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It’s February, the month where thoughts turn to relationships and I’ve got some great relationship advice to share. Unusual pairings, guilty pleasures and something to spice up the cool evenings... I’ve been exploring our relationships with food and how the usual and sometimes unusual relationships ingredients have with each other can give great results. There’s a recipe for an indulgent chocolate pudding and while we all know scientists have proven chocolate can give you a buzz there’s a great beef chilli recipe that shows how chocolate can really complement the heat of chilli too. The sharp sweetness of plums become the perfect partner for my Chinese style pork and show the classic relationship between fat and fruit. And finally it’s a healthy reworking of the great guilty pleasure, the lamb kebab which of course should be served with a cold beer.
CHINESE STYLE PORK SHOULDER WITH PLUM SAUCE If you can get the pork shoulder on the bone great, all meat is better cooked on the bone as it helps to keep it moist. If not, don’t worry because after a long, slow cook the meat will be falling apart. You could serve this with little pancakes and roll them up with the sauce like you do with crispy duck. When you buy the plums choose soft overripe ones as the flavour will be better and they will break down nicely. PORK SHOULDER INGREDIENTS:
the cinnamon stick a bit, add it to the pan and finally rub the five spice all over. * Refrigerate overnight if you have time or leave for a few hours. * Preheat the oven to 150°. * Take the pork out and reserve the marinade. * Take a casserole pot, brown the pork well all over. Take care to brown the skin and fat gently and well. * Add the marinade to the pan, add the sherry and a (200ml) glass of water. * Cover the dish and put in the oven for approx 2 ½ hours. By which time the meat should be literally falling apart.
1kg pork shoulder 2tbsp 5 spice ½ cinnamon stick 100ml soy sauce PLUM SAUCE 50ml rice wine vinegar or cider vinegar INGREDIENTS: 2 cloves garlic 150ml dry sherry 1tbsp sunflower oil ½ a red onion * Bash the garlic cloves and break 40g ginger each in half. Don’t worry about 1 clove of garlic peeling them. ½-1 red chilli * Find a dish big enough for the 50g coriander with roots pork and add the garlic, rice wine 1 star anise vinegar and soy sauce. Break up 100g sugar
400g red skinned plums 1tbsp Thai fish sauce 2tbsp soy sauce * Peel and finely chop the red onion, garlic and ginger. Deseed the chilli and finely chop too. Wash the coriander and chop the roots as small as you can. Cut the plums in half and remove the stones. * Using a shallow pan, heat the oil and gently fry the onion, garlic, ginger, coriander root and star anise for a few minutes. * Add the sugar and a splash of water to help it dissolve. Let the sugar bubble up and start to take on some colour. You need to keep an eye on it and as soon as the sugar is turning a caramel colour add the plums carefully. Adding the plums should stop the sugar from colouring further but I always put a splash of cold water in too to make sure. Turn the heat down and let the plums soften and start to collapse. When the mixture is thick and the plums have pretty much lost their shape add the fish sauce and soy sauce. Finally chop the coriander leaves and stir in.
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