fronting

• EDITOR’S LETTER by Tank
• LOOKOUT: when looks can kill
• TRIM: shoes and cars celebrate a great trading partnership. Angelo Figus at Antwerp’s Museum of Fashion
• PUNCHY: Cathy vs Brown. woman. boxer. bitch
• UTOPIA: a portrait of the Cunning City from the imagination of Neville Mars
• MISTAKE: what do you do when the bodies don’t add up? Rick Wirick found out when he was asked to count corpses after a plane crash
• SCENTSIMILLA: a sedimentary deposit of intoxicating scents found to be potential future classics
• PERT: photography and styling by Sean + Seng
• FRESH: David Lindwall. fashion is a freedom crime
• CHICKENLAND: photography by Therese Stowell
• EXCESSORISE: you can never have enough shoes, bags, belts, earrings, bracelets, brooches
• ARSENAL: war! what is it good for? some thoughts about sexy machinery
• ICONOGRAPHY: the Illinois Institute of Technology
• GIANT: Hong Kong Garde. Fiona Rae
• EDWARD SAID: as world-famous Palestinians go, Edward Said was up there with Yasser Arafat. the writer, teacher and musician died in September. this interview records where he was coming from, in his own words
• STRANGER: being foreign in rural Japan
• INTERVENE: interventionist art is becoming an inflationary trend
• OUTAGE: Drabble+Sachs’ preplanned power cut
• FATAL: photography and art direction by Jake Walters and Non-Format
• UNLEADED: Andrew Holmes records America’s trucks with coloured pencils and stamina
• FORGOTTEN: djinns and tonic
• HACK: for a while Warren Singh Bartlett worked for the most controversial news channel in the world Until Al Jazeera sacked him
• WORDPOPS: Paul Morley used to be a rock journalist. then he founded The Art of Noise. now he thinks he’s on his way to an imaginary city with Kylie at the wheel
• POSTWAT: Bosnian photographer Ziyo Gafic documents the impact of war and postwar dead bodies, white 4x4s and clotheslines on his native country
• ZARAISM: from Henry Ford to Amancio Ortega Gaona
• FAKER: in the green landscape of Woodstock something sharp and crisp and medieval has emerged. Richard Woods’ synthetic/organic model is a new aesthetic with which to paint the world; the beginning of a new era of the Super-Tudor has arrived
• SQUELCH: Chris Jones makes the 2D into 3D with no respect for the integrity of glossy magazines like this one
• GOTHAM: King of the Forest Part III by AES + F Group