Issue 3

August 2011

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L’ARTBe Creative

Contents Editor’s LetterMusic

Performing Arts

12 They’re lyricists, musicians and

great friends. Meet The Poetics...

18 Dive into the life ofJada Pearl

5 The Future Of Hair with

Kaysha Green

16 Get the Graduate Fashion Week experience from one of their 2011

participants 20 Your summer fashion fix is here; KandiKing

4 Miss P Fundraiser is back! Read

how not to miss out this September

11 Celebrating The Lion King

Reviews 9 Word on the street

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Hi all and wel-come to the third

issue of L’ART; the ‘apprentice’ issue. With the latest series of The Apprentice coming to an end af-ter Lord Sugar suc-cessfully found a new business partner, we thought we’d get our interviewee’s think-ing how they would convince the man himself that he would have a great invest-ment in them.

Check out how they answered…

Enjoy!

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The annual Miss P Fun-draiser is here next

month, but the question is do you have your tickets?

Our new home is Oxford’s New Theatre and the night is set once again to be an amaz-ing array of dance, song and theatre.

Acts include KC’s School of Dance, professional contem-porary dancers and the reun-ion of Beverley Harry’s Spin Off. Plus the Foundation are always happy to welcome acts from outside the city, who have in the past included Lon-don and Basingstoke.

The Miss P Foundation is well on its way to forming future workshops, competitions, summer projects and funding

Why not donate? Cheques payable to MPF

presents the Miss P Fundraiser 2011...

fees for applicants who need a helping hand in reaching their career on stage. Visit our website to find out more.

With Irish dancing, a talk show style first half with a difference and a second half of Motown, The Miss P team are excited to share this show

with you all. Tickets are avail-able at Ticketmaster online or at the New Theatre.

Want to donate a raffle prize for the night? Contact us at lartmagazine@gmail.com.

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The Future Of Hair

Is your hair often left till the last minute? With wise words from hair stylist Kaysha Green and makeup artist Kel-lie Morgan, here is why you should treat your hair like any other accessory.

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Kaysha Green is more than just a hairdresser. She has crea-tively used her styling ability to teach apprenticeship stu-

dents at Oxpens college, earnt her Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector (PTLLS) teaching qualification at Bicester college and won the Young Inspirational hairdresser award in the Hairdresser’s Journal.

Along the way she has worked with some prestigious salon’s including Toni & Guy (Oxford and the Westfields flagship sa-lon in London) and done hair styling for Oxford Fashion Week.

With a business head sat firmly on her shoulders, Kaysha plans to work on film sets in the future and possibly open up her own salon in Oxford.

So before she takes this next big step, we decided to collabo-rate with her to produce a festival themed spread for our ap-prentice issue.

Behind The ScenesKaysha says: “The theme was festival chic so I decid-ed on the french plait to add a polished look, contrasting with the boufont hair at the back. Festival hair can be both wild and chic.”

Kellie says: “With Michae-la’s makeup I went for the popping pink lips to match the festival look and avant garde hair theme. The rest of the outfit is subtle so that the pink lips and orange dress pop out together.”

Tip: “A subtle look on the eyes will allow bold lips to stand out.”

L’ART says: “Styling your hair is just as important as any other part of your out-fit. The look you are trying to achieve with your clothes and accessories can also be expressed through the finish-ing touches of your hair.”

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L’ARTWORD ON THE STREET

Q: David Beckham is designing underwear for H&M, would you buy his range? Explain why.

“Yes I would as long as they fit right. Mr Beck-ham oozes style, so I think they will look decent.”- Simon Jones

“If they look aes-thetically decent, a generous fit, along with a reasonable price, then yes.”- Ishmael Jackson

“No I wouldn’t because Beckham’s name on a pair of boxers is not going to make me run out and buy them.”- Jerrel Jackson

“Yes if they were po-tentially like the lead-ing CK brand, not just for the sake of it being Beckham related.”- Dwayne Hunt

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“I would but it cannot be too pricey - because he is loaded already - or too cheap. It has to have a stamp of quality on it which is, in a man’s eyes, the price.”- Zeek Nero

“It depends on the style of the range but I think the Beckham brand sells itself. He is seen as a fashion icon.”- Andy Cox

Michaela is wearing a Jarlo coral maxi dress. On sale in Booty for just £49.00.

Also check out Booty’s Girls Night In where you can live the celeb life of bring-ing the latest brands and beauty treatments to your own living room.

‘The host receives 10% off on the night with a free gift for orders over £150. There are tailor made packages to suit you and your groups needs, whether you want a quiet, re-laxing evening or a fun filled party full of games, Booty can offer it all’.

Call Booty at 01865 726761 or email atenquiries@bootyoxford.co.uk

Meet the team for the festival chic shootModel: Michaela Baker Makeup: Kellie Morgan (centre)Hair: Kaysha Green (second from left) Photographer: Julie BiggsStyling: Louise Trueman (second from right)

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D.L. PHUNKworking together with the Miss P Foundation

wants YOU

The Miss P Fundraiser 2011 is here on Saturday September 24th 7pm and you could be

involved.

Kids aged 5-12 and those aged 12 and above are welcome to join Miss P Performers and D.L.

Phunk for a dance, song and acting performance. All abilities are welcome and

rehearsals start this month.

Interested? Call us on 07599206381 or 07749813129 for more info.

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The Lion King Story

Our first memories of The Lion King exist

around the Disney video and the memorable tune that is ‘The Circle of Life’. Now in its 14th year as a West End musical, it has been gracing audiences with its presence.

Its debut was in 1997, Min-neapolis, Minnesota before it made its way to Broadway’s New Amsterdam Theatre the following October. Now at the Minskoff Theatre with the title of Broadway’s seventh longest running show, its jour-ney then started in London’s Lyceum Theatre in 1999 and is still running today.

The way this award winning musical has developed is a prime example of someone who worked hard to get their idea known and their produc-tion is now a worldwide suc-cess. This business strategy can work for anyone.

So coinciding with our ap-prentice theme for this issue, the development of The Lion King story from one stage in Minneapolis, Minnesota to some of the world’s greatest stages is here to inspire every-one working towards creating their own business empire.

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“I’m Raymond.” “I’m Tapp.” “I’m Jasmine.”

“And together we are, The Poetics.”

“I came up with the name,” says Tapp, as team L’ART met up with the poet and pi-anist duo at a local pub. (Un-fortunately their good friend, singer and pianist Jasmine couldn’t make the meeting, but I managed to have a tel-ephone interview with her in the same week). We all agreed the name ‘The Poetics’ combined poetry and music together perfectly.

Having been together for two years, the talented teenagers got together for their first per-formance at local event Urban Talent, back in 2009. Jasmine is one of the organisers for the

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annual showcase of music, dance and theatre held at the Christian Life Centre, who opened their doors to the pub-lic for its third year running back in July.

“We bounced off each other,” said Jasmine.

“It kind of kicked off then,” Raymond continued, as he re-calls on the event that has seen local talents such as Silecta and N-Zyme perform in the past. “It’s a big performance.

Everyone comes together.”“There’s a lot of talent in Ox-

ford I think people don’t rec-ognise,” Jasmine added. “We wanted to get it recognised.”

And recognised they are, as whilst rehearsing for Talent Rocks Live (TRL), a local talent competition that was being held at the Kassam Sta-dium back in June, the groups individuality, newness and sweet sound caught the atten-tion of fellow performers and TRL judges alike.

You could say the three school friends began performing to-gether by accident. Though they had always been aware of each others talents, they never thought their combined notes, melodies and lyrics would be such a hit with their listeners.

With joint love and inspira-tion for music artists in the RnB and Soul sector, The Po-etics love to take the p e r f o r m -ance ethic of their idols to the stage, along with their own u n i q u e style. Col-lec t ive ly, these include Floetry, Erykah Badu, Alicia Keys, John Legend, Maya Angelou, Jill Scott, Adele and Eliza Dolit-tle. And with a varied mix of idols, there’s bound to be a lit-tle something for everyone in The Poetics as a package.

Spending time with the group this afternoon and on previ-ous occasions, their friend-ship and the artistic bond that comes with it is fun to see and the way each artist bounces off each other is definitely de-

“There’s a lot of talent in Oxford I think people don’t

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Defining themselves as a po-etry group in their own genre bracket, University courses await them next month, but this in no way means the end for The Poetics.

“If we get called somewhere to perform we’ll definitely go,” they assure me, as they fill us in about their hopes to perform at jazz café’s and their upcoming projects with

Want to know how The Poet-ics would pitch themselves as the ideal business partners?

“I’m good at organising events and acts,” Jasmine kicks off.“We’ve got great market-ing skills and business back-grounds,” says Raymond.Concluding, Tapp said, “Our brand itself as a group is unique and we have the upper hand with a contemporary,

Oxford club Roppongi’s Jazz nights and supporting singer Bluey Robinson at Oxford’s Carling Academy, a gig they gained through recommenda-tion once they were spotted at TRL’s final. “We’d like to take this as far as we can.”

“The world is our oyster.”

Jasmine adds “I’m not pursu-ing fame, I just love music. We love music.”

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In Issue 1 of L’ART, we spoke about the opportuni-

ties on offer for future gradu-ates, their chance to step into the real world and kick start a lifelong fashion career.

Well meet Rianne Brown, a 20-year-old De Montfort graduate from Derby who was able to bring her three year Fashion Design BA ex-perience to London’s Earl’s Court.

“The journey was a long and extremely hard one learning

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the ropes of studying fashion at a high level. I stuck at it and managed to see my work grow and develop, improving in each project set.

“It was a really enjoyable course and it tested your char-acter to see how much you wanted it and how determined you would be when it got hard.

“Growing personally and as a designer, I’m glad that I ex-perienced eve-ry moment.”

With an 8.30am start, things are hap-pening from the word go.

Between helping backstage, putting clothing collections in the correct running order and dressing models, Rianne was given a great taster of future roles in a fashion filled career.

Her line, ‘The Calm after the Storm’ saw Rianne take i n s p i r a t i o n from storms and how they transform and distort things. “I used this to create inter-

changeable pieces within my collection.

“As well as using the storm to inspire the silhouette, I used storm photography on a blown up scale for my prints. This injected bright colours and texture into my collection.

“It was really exciting to see the models and do a quick fit-ting. Seeing my collection

on professional models was amazing and I finally got to appreciate all the hard work.

“When I started first year and saw the previous third years work shown at GFW, I knew it was my ultimate goal to get there. I never actually imag-ined I would get in. Trying my hardest really paid off. I wanted to make sure it was a collection I was proud of and really represented my signa-ture as a new designer.

“At the m o m e n t I’m taking some time out to relax and work. I want to c o n t i n u e designing in the near future and see where that takes me.”

A Day In The Life Of Jada Pearl

• Wake up call• Special K breakfast for a good start in the day

• Workout at the gym• Time dedicated to work emails and phone calls

• Practice time on vocals and songs• London-based meetings with label, New State • Writing songs at home in a quiet environment

But this schedule has taken years to perfect as Jada Pearl has been an artist for a long time. Remember her at last

years Urban Talent event? Or recently supporting Professor Green at the Regal? Now, with more achievements added to her record, her status is growing everyday with the help of mu-sic producer, Fuzzy Logik.

Behind The ScenesShe aspires to be like songwriter Burt Bacharach, writing me-lodic songs based on real-life experiences.

At 12-years-old she recorded her first demo made up of four songs.

Jada gave up singing at 17 when lack of support got to her. “It was making me more upset than happy. But I couldn’t give up for life. It was just time to heal the wounds.”

Her single ‘All My Love’ was rejected by music companies but Fuzzy Logik got it circling the club scene and radio stations.

Jada is signed to an independent London-based label called New State.

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would be sat where I am today without Fuzzy Logik. I’m thankful that

I’ve met him.”

What You Didn’t Know...Nickname JadaStage name Her cousin suggested ‘Pearl’ would complete her lookPerforms with The Red Soul Brigade (nine piece funk band) and Soul Juice (made up of graduate students)Occupation Singer, entertainer, future businesswomanTalent shows At 11-years-old she won a first place trophy by singing Alicia Keys’ ‘Fallin’’Famous contacts Fuzzy Logik - He helped produce her single ‘All My Love’ and created Egypt’s single ‘In The Morning’Side jobs Hairdressing and singing at wedding events

“With Alan Sugar the appeal would be that I’m an up and coming singer, very talented, I’m going somewhere, I’ve got a lot of ide-as that are well worth the investment and they’re ideas that are going to work.”

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With his father’s words (education is key

to life) instilled in his head, Ibrahim Iqbal brought his creative skills to the table, and the result? A promising and fast growing t-shirt busi-ness in the making.

And it doesn’t stop there. With plans to make it as a worldwide brand name, sell-ing everything from jeans, varsity jackets, hats, hood-ies, you name it, KandiKing t-shirts are just the beginning.

“The name was easy, sim-ply because in my secondary school, I used to sell sweets as a business and this friend of mine called me the Candy

Man. I used it and changed it about,” Ibrahim explains.

“It fit perfectly. The first design is the original KandiKing him-

The reason Lord Sugar should pick me isn’t for all th e successes I’ve had but rather all the failures it took me to reach for that success, my wea knesses that I turned into strengths.

How a childhood nickname saw the birth of the popular clothing busi-ness worn this summer. Read Ibrahim Iqbal’s story.

self. He represents the whole clothing line.” And follow-ing on from the success of his sales, Ibrahim is to mark this first milestone of his business career with a limited edition batch of the original KandiK-ing tees.

Now with several A-C grades at GCSE and National Diplo-ma Business level, Ibrahim constantly keeps business at the front of his mind. Whilst in talks with a friend about starting his clothing line, he

started researching success-ful worldwide brand names he admires and takes inspi-ration from. These include Japanese music producer Nigo’s Bape (A Bathing Ape) and Italian design-ers Dolce & Gabbana’s

D&G.

How Ibrahim came to start a business in one of the most competitive working areas was a surprise to those that knew him, as he admits: “I never thought I would be in the fashion sector.” It turns out Ibrahim got his first taste of the fashion world when he had to design a customised t-shirt for Red Nose Day at school. With all proceeds go-ing to charity, the incentive was a great cause.

“Soon after, I designed and made my own t-shirt.”

So what next? Well what’s a marketing strategy without including one of the biggest social networking sites out there? It was time to intro-duce Facebook to the world of KandiKing.

“Louis ‘Likkle Platinum’ May introduced me to the idea,” then Facebook saw the in-troduction of KandiKing to a large number of people and future customers.

“People having the tees on was the main marketing strategy that got people talking,” but not forgetting team KandiK-ing’s day trip to Lon-don to fur-ther pro-mote the name with none other

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than the city’s dance crew, Stylistics. With photoshoots, videos and an interview with Trilogy’s Isaac (Sky One’s So You Think You Can Dance), “Overall, it was a great day.”

Ibrahim looks forward to pro-viding a line for us females, so keep your eyes and ears peeled as KandiKing prepares to present MissKandi. Ibrahim prom-ises this line will be very colourful, with varied designs and sizes to suit all.

With his new batch of tees & merchandise due this Autumn, KandiKing continues to grow, making movements in 2011.

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Team KandiKing in London It’s competition time and this is-sue we have two free Kandi King t-shirts up for grabs. If you’re not aware of the KandiKing range you can get clued up with Ibrahim, the creator on page 20.

The lucky winners will be the own-ers of issue three, number eight and issue three, number 24. The win-ners will be announced online at www.dlpublications-lart.co.uk on Thursday September 1st.

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