Jannis Kounellis is one of the great living artists – book quickly if you want to attend!

Initially associated with the Arte Povera of the late 1960s, a movement that tried to free art from the conventions, structures and the market place restrictions of the day, and also (through the nature of the materials used) to make an art much closer to the everyday life of people, Kounellis is one of the world’s leading contemporary artists with a career spanning more than forty years.

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Grayson Perry by Jack Laurenson

I attended the astonishing talk of Grayson Perry at Cochrane Theatre, marking the publication of artist’s monograph by Jacky Klein. Grayson Perry is known for his controversial ceramic vases and cross-dressing.

He appeared as his female alter ago, Claire. I knew that it wouldn’t be just another lecture as it felt rather bizarre to see a grown-up man dressed as a doll.
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Barabara Hulanicki and Louis Price. Photo: Charles Fox

Here’s an excellent review of our evening with Biba visionary Barbara Hulanicki at the Cochrane Theatre by 2nd year Fashion Communication student Imogen Everson.

Biba was a cultural movement – a modest fashion label that grew into a lifestyle brand, and an avant-garde one at that. As the sixties melted into the seventies, its pioneer Barbara Hulanicki brought exciting but affordable fashion to the style-hungry youth. Its vitality still resonates today, a fact proven by the overwhelming turnout at last night’s event.

‘Beyond Biba’ was introduced by Central Saint Martins alumni Stephen Jones, who cited Hulanicki as “an extraordinary inspiration.” It was a pair of Biba’s Mickey Mouse printed boots that sparked in (the then teenaged) Jones an enduring love for fashion that straddles both function and fantasy.

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Last night’s screening of Beyond Biba followed by Barbara Hulanicki in conversation with Louis Price (an alumnus of BA Performance Design and Practice) was a tremendous success.

We’ll be publishing a review and video of the event here in the near future, but in the meantime, here’s Vogue.com’s write-up which begins:

“Barbara has always been an extraordinary influence in my life. I had no idea fashion existed in that way. She was one of the reasons I got into fashion. Somehow she made that fantasy functional,” milliner Stephen Jones, who introduced the film to a fashion student-filled Cochrane Theatre at Central Saint Martins, explained.