London Fashion Week Men’s June 2019 Is a City-Wide Celebration of Creative Diversity
LONDON FASHION WEEK MEN’S JUNE 2019 IS A CITY-WIDE CELEBRATION OF CREATIVE DIVERSITY
The 14th edition of London Fashion Week Men’s (LFWM) runs from Saturday 8th June – Monday 10th June. It is a celebration of the creativity and diversity that has made London an international hub for menswear. The home of LFWM returns to the Truman Brewery and features the official BFC Show Space, a curated showroom of menswear brands and experiences, the NEWGEN Pop-Up Showroom and the DiscoveryLAB, a creative space hosting a unique mix of catwalk shows, presentations, experiential thinking and events which will shine a light on the depth and breadth of our creative industry. There are many ways the consumer can be a part of this cultural celebration of London, with all the below activities and events open to the public.
An Enquiring Mind: Manolo Blahnik
10th June – 1st September 2019
The Wallace Collection, Hertford House, Manchester Square, London W1U 3BN
The Wallace Collection and Manolo Blahnik will present An Enquiring Mind: Manolo Blahnik at the Wallace Collection. The exhibition features a personally selected edit of shoe designs from Blahnik’s private archives set amongst the masterpieces of the Wallace Collection. This exciting venture juxtaposes an icon from the world of contemporary fashion with Wallace’s outstanding collection that has been an inspiration to artists since it opened to the public in 1900. A rare opportunity to see excellence in contemporary design alongside the exceptional quality of the Wallace Collection’s own artworks. Find out more here.
Big Screen at Spitalfields Market
7th June – 7th July 2019
Bishops Square, Spitalfields Market, London E1 6AD
The big screen returns to Bishops Square this summer, screening the Women’s Football World Cup. Find out more here.
City Poems and City Music
11th April – 16th June 2019
77 – 82 Whitechapel High St, Shadwell, White Chapel Gallery, Gallery 2, London E1 7QX
Poets, artists and musicians respond to the experience of city life in this series of live events and exhibition. A live programme presents contemporary work on the theme of the city with performances from musician Thurston Moore (b. 1958, USA), poet CAConrad (b. 1966, USA) and British punk trio Big Joanie. Find out more here.
Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams
2nd February – 14th July 2019
Victoria and Albert Museum, Sainsbury’s Gallery, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL
Spanning from 1947 to the present day, this exhibition traces the history and impact of one of the 20th century’s most influential couturiers, exploring the enduring influence of the fashion house, and Dior’s relationship with Britain. Find out more here.
Colourstream by Dan Pearson
19th April – 30th June 2019
Coal Drops Yard, Yard Level, King Cross, London N1C 4DQ
Colourstream by renowned landscape architect Dan Pearson brings an invigorating splash of colour to Coal Drops Yard. Phase one of this horticultural installation consists of trails of bright geraniums being used to guide visitors towards Coal Drops Yard from Granary Square, creating a vibrant path to the heart of this new space. In addition. ‘The Floral Orchestra’ will be in bloom every spring Saturday afternoon, from Easter to the Summer Solstice. Orchestral arrangements by Xavior. Colourstream is free and open to all. Find out more here.
Cross The Tracks
9th June 2019
Brockwell Park, Norwood Road, London SE24 9BJ
Cross The Tracks is a new festival promises to be a funk and soul feast for Brixton and beyond. Chaka Khan, Masego, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Jordan Rakei and The Comet Is Coming lead the funky charge while 40 street food traders will slay appetites in all directions, get tickets here.
Dorothea Tanning Exhibition
27th February – 9th June 2019
Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
The first major exhibition of American artist Dorothea Tanning in 25 years at Tate Modern. Works spanning Tanning’s prolific career, from her 1930s Surrealist paintings to her final collection of poetry (published when she was one hundred years old), are displayed together in the UK for the first time since her death. Tickets priced from £10-£13, find out more here.
Edvard Munch: Love and Angst review
11th April – 21st July 2019
British Museum, Bloomsbury, 44 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG
Loneliness, anxiety, jealousy, fear and torment: Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944) probably wasn’t much fun at parties, but he sure had a knack for art. This exhibition doesn’t make for easy viewing: it’s heavy, dour stuff that’ll hang over you like a dark cloud. Don’t come expecting a massive in-depth show of his iconic paintings – this is all about his prints. Munch worked extensively with woodcuts, lithographs and etchings, and the results are often lovely. Get tickets here.
Far Side of the Moon by Victor Wong x A.I. Gemini
16th April – 14th June 2019
3812 London Gallery, 21 Ryder St, St. James’s, London SW1Y 6PX
Innovative artist and inventor, Victor Wong, is leading the collaboration between artificial intelligence and ink art. Wong is the creator of A.I. Gemini, the world’s first robotic ink artist programmed with artificial intelligence to paint unique Chinese landscapes. Gemini is coded to plot 3D virtual terrain. Gemini’s arm dips its brush into ink and water, sweeping across fresh Xuan paper with calculated choreography to reproduce this terrain with lines and shading. Each resulting work is unique. Find out more here.
Field Day
7th June – 8th June 2019
Meridian Water, Upper Edmonton, Argon Road, London N18 3BW
Over the last decade Field Day has slowly become one of London’s very best music festivals, with a consistently excellent booking policy covering the world’s finest alternative acts. This year marks another big change for the event; after last year’s move from east London’s Victoria Park to Brixton’s Brockwell Park, it’s relocating again – this time to four huge warehouses in Enfield. The line-up is typically on-point, though, with Skepta and Jorja Smith headlining a bill that also includes Diplo, Earl Sweatshirt and Pusha T. Get tickets here.
Frank Bowling
31st May – 28th August 2019
Tate Britain, Westminster, Millbank London SW1P 4RG
Bowling gets a much-deserved major exhibition at Tate Britain. The artist’s long-running career has seen him develop a unique style fusing abstraction with elements of figurative art. Londoners are in for a treat with this show which includes the artist’s stunning ‘map paintings’ and his ‘poured paintings’ (created by literally pouring paint down a canvas). Get tickets here.
Hampton Court Palace Festival
7th June – 21st June 2019
Hampton Court Palace, East Molesey, Surrey, KT8 9AU, United Kingdom
Set around a stately home, this is a proper posh series of outdoor gigs – VIP tickets include a three-course dinner and champagne reception within the State Apartments with proper banked seating for the audience. 2019’s edition will feature shows from Kylie Minogue, Tears for Fears, Busted, Chic and The Jacksons. Find out more here.
Jake Wood – Evans: Legacy & Disorder
23rd May – 15th June 2019
Unit London, 3 Hanover Square, Mayfair, London W1S 1HD
Jake Wood-Evans’ highly anticipated 2019 solo exhibition, Legacy & Disorder, at Unit London will feature a large new body of work centred around the artist’s fascination with the passage and experience of time and space. Wood-Evans’ atmospheric oil paintings will focus on the creation of a transient environment, one which is simultaneously enveloping and imploding, inhabited by corporeal and fragmented historical figures. Find out more on here.
Jimmy Choo / Ashley Williams Capsule Collection
From June 2019 – December 2019
27 New Bond Street, Mayfair, London W1S 2RH
Jimmy Choo has collaborated with London designer Ashley Williams creating shoes and bags as part of the Autumn Winter Ready to Wear collection. Comprising new footwear silhouettes and a handbag, the collection crosses boundaries between aesthetics and outlooks, united by a love of the intrinsically, unmistakably feminine.
The collection is available both online here and at the New Bond Street store.
Junction 2
7th – 8th June 2019
Boston Manor Park, Brentford, TW8 9JX
The award-winning dance music festival returns to Boston Manor Park this summer, this time offering two consecutive days of music across five stages. Bicep, Daniel Avery, Objekt, Loco Dice and Maceo Plex all feature on the eclectic line-up – tickets available here.
Leonardo Da Vinci: A Life In Drawing
24th May – 13th October 2019
The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1A 1AA
Marking the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, the exhibition brings together more than 200 of the Renaissance master’s greatest drawings in the Royal Collection, forming the largest exhibition of Leonardo’s work in over 65 years. Drawing served as Leonardo’s laboratory, allowing him to work out his ideas on paper and search for the universal laws that he believed underpinned all of creation. The drawings by Leonardo in the Royal Collection have been together as a group since the artist’s death in 1519. Acquired during the reign of Charles II, they provide an unparalleled insight into the workings of Leonardo’s mind and reflect the full range of his interests, including painting, sculpture, architecture, anatomy, engineering, cartography, geology and botany – get tickets here.
Mary Quant
6th April 2019 – 16th February 2020
Victoria and Albert Museum, Sainsbury’s Gallery, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL
From miniskirts and hot pants to vibrant tights and makeup, discover how Mary Quant launched a fashion revolution on the British high street, with over 200 garments and accessories, including unseen pieces from the designer’s personal archive. Find out more here.
Michael Rakowitz
3rd June – 25th August 2019
77 – 82 Whitechapel High St, Shadwell, White Chapel Gallery, Galleries 1,8 & 9, London E1 7QX
Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz’s (b. 1973, USA) first major European survey presents a sequence of installations drawing on architecture, cultural artefacts and cuisine to tell stories of social ritual, conflict and loss. It encompasses work considering the citizen visionaries of post Soviet Hungary, Middle Eastern Beatles fans and the stone carvers of Afghanistan, with Rakowitz’s casts of players and objects revealing the legacy of colonisation, modernism and globalism. Find out more here.
Mighty Hoopla Festival
8th June 2019
Brockwell Park, Norwood Road, London SE24 9BJ
Mighty Hoopla an LGBT-friendly embrace of alternative club culture and general optimism. All Saints, Bananarama, Liberty X, Samantha Mumba, Jamelia, Tove Lo are among this year’s festival performers, while Sink the Pink, Guilty Pleasures, Massaoke and The Cocoa Butter Club bring the party vibes. Find out more here.
My Balls Have Soul
3rd April – 1st July 2019
The Immersive Room, Browns East, 21 Club Row, Shoreditch, London E2 7EY
Kitchen & Soul, is here to serve some good mood food which promotes positivity and mental well-being, balancing body and mind. Introducing SoulBall An Ayurveda-inspired energy snack packed with fibre, healing mineral properties and nutritional spices. (And they’re vegan, gluten free, diary-free and refined sugar-free!) Find out more here.
Natalia Goncharova
6th June – 8th September 2019
Tate Modern, South Bank, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
In her lifetime, Russian artist Natalia Goncharova helped found Avant garde modern art movements, worked with Sergei Diaghilev at the Ballet Russes, designed dresses, created theatre set designs and much, much more.
This exhibition at Tate Modern is overdue and should help to resurrect her reputation as a major artist. Get tickets here.
Pat McGrath Labs – Beauty Experiences
Bookings available from 1st April 2019
Selfridges, 400 Oxford Street, Marylebone, London W1A 1AB
Indulge like an icon with exclusive beauty services inspired by the opulent obsessions, iconic inspirations and alluring addictions that have fuelled Pat McGrath’s unrivalled three-decade reign as The Queen of Beauty for runway, red carpet and editorial. Experimenting with looks ranging from McGrath’s iconic Smoke & Mirrors Eye to the myriad couture colour variations of the Runway Power Pout, book your backstage experience at The Mothership at Selfridges London here.
Phyllida Barlow: Cul-de-Sac review
23rd February – 23rd June 2019
The Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Galleries, Burlington Gardens, Royal Academy of Arts, London W1J 0BD
Phyllida Barlow is a British sculptor, well-known for using materials such as plaster, cardboard and cement, which turn the conventions of traditional sculpture on its head. Her best-known works include the Tate Britain Commission 2014, and her installation for the 2017 Venice Biennale British Pavilion, where she represented the UK. Find out more here.
Queer Spaces: London, 1980s – Today
2nd April – 25th June 2019
77-82 Whitechapel High St, Shadwell, White Chapel Gallery, Gallery 4, London E1 7QX
This exhibition considers the loss of hundreds of community venues around London through market-led redevelopment and how this has changed the capital’s queer scene. It presents work by artists concerned with the disappearance of spaces where LGBTQ+ communities have gathered to socialise, explore their sexuality and try out new identities. Featuring rarely displayed archive material relating to the city’s queer spaces, gathered through extensive research by University College London’s Urban Laboratory. Find out more here.
RIXO Pop-Up
Until autumn 2019
74 Kings Road, London SW3 4TZ
British label, RIXO – has opened up shop in King’s Road, in a flurry of print and a kaleidoscope of colour. There are polka-dots, paint splashes, abstract florals, animal print, and everything in between. Find out more here.
Sage Vaughn: Come Together, Far Away
4th June – 6th July 2019
Unit London, 3 Hanover Square, Mayfair, London W1S 1HD
Contemporary American artist Sage Vaughn will introduce his debut show at Unit London. Using a wide variety of media including: painting, collage, installation, video and sculpture, Vaughn aesthetically challenges the border between the interior and the exterior. Find out more here.
Sarah Morris – ‘’Machines do not make us into Machines’’
17th April – 30th June 2019
White Cube Bermondsey, 144-152 Bermondsey St, London SE1 3TQ
White Cube Bermondsey presents Sarah Morris’s first solo show in the UK in six years. Featuring paintings, films, a site-specific wall painting as well as the artist’s first sculptural work, the exhibition reflects Morris’s interest in networks, typologies, architecture, language and the city. Find out more here.
Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition
Until 15th September 2019
The Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High St, Kensington, London W8 6AG
The exhibition tells the story of Stanley Kubrick the meticulous genius, exploring his unique command of the creative design process of film making, from storyteller to director to editor. You’ll see step by step how Kubrick created genre-defining worlds for his films and relive iconic scenes from The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, 2001: A Space Odyssey and more. Get an exclusive insight into his mind through over 700 rare objects, films, interviews, letters and photographs. Explore Kubrick’s special relationship with England and particularly London, as his primary film location and source of inspiration. Find out more here.
St James’s
8th June 2019
Jermyn Street, SW1
Jermyn St in the heart of St James’s transforms into an open-air catwalk, celebrating the area as the original home of menswear and bringing together over 30 leading heritage and contemporary brands. Shows will be scheduled at 12pm, 1:30pm and 3pm and tickets are free-of-charge which can be booked here.
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