Elle UK - 11.2019

FASHION

ONE WAT C H :
M O WA LO L A
The Nigerian designer dressed Skepta, Dev
Hynes and Solange before she’d even had
her own runway show: ‘Solange told me she
felt powerful in my clothes,’ says Mowalola
Ogunlesi (above). ‘What excites me is how
people feel in them.’ After designing outfits
with Nike for Nigeria’s World Cup team
and debuting at London Fashion Week with
Fashion East last January, she’s added Drake,
Kanye West and London’s party scene to her
fan base. Following in the footsteps of Charles
Jeffrey and Molly Goddard, Mowalola will
exhibit Silent Madness at London’s NOW
Gallery (from 28 November). Guests will be
given an MP3 player to listen to Mowalola’s
playlist as you look around her collection.

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ART

FRIEZE L ANDED

From a Tracey Emin sculpture in Regent’s

Park to Elizabeth Peyton at the National

Portrait Gallery, Frieze London is back (3–6

October). Put these artists on your radar now.

TO BUY

ALLIED EDITIONS

@alliededitions

With prices starting at £1OO, this collective,

made up of seven London galleries, offers

art from UK-based artists that you can

actually afford. Head to the Allied Editions

booth to get your hands on colourful

ceramics and witty prints.

TO FOLLOW

BETTY TOMPKINS

@bettytompkinsart

Betty Tompkins’ art is controversial and

ballsy – literally, in the case of some of her

giant genitalia paintings. In the 197Os,

her highly provocative work was under-

appreciated by critics. Now, it’s a timely

and compelling response to modern life.

Catch her group show at Frieze and get

following – you need her work on your feed.

TO SEE AT HOME

HIMALI SINGH SOIN

@himalisinghsoin

Experience art from your sofa as Channel

4 broadcasts the film that won this poet the

Frieze Artist Award 2O19. We are opposite

like that responds to climate change and our

uneasy Brexit future – it’s Gogglebox

meets a trip to the Tate.

BOOKS

C HOSEN FA MIL IES

Our favourite books this month explore

all different kinds of love

ROYALS

by Emma Forrest

Set in 198Os London,

this rollercoaster of a

story follows an unlikely

friendship between Steven

(a shy, working-class man)

and Jasmine (a fabulous,

party-animal heiress).

FIND ME

by André Aciman

If you’re looking for

breathtaking romance,

the long-awaited sequel

to Call Me By Your Name

is here, chronicling the

years after Elio and

Oliver’s summer together.

HIGH SCHOOL

by Tegan and Sarah

A tender coming-of-age

story of identical twin

pop icons at the height

of 199Os grunge and

rave culture, written in

alternating points of view.

Unputdownable.

FASHION MEETS ART

Designer Mowalola

brings her powerful

designs (above) to

an installation in

London this month