fronting

• EDITOR’S LETTER by Masoud Golsorkhi
• REALITY OUTLINED: Jürgen Mayer H.’s soft shapes and crazy colours make modernism a lot less scary
• ART AND COMMERCE: Peter Marino’s vision for Dior’s first flagship
• A-MEWS-MENT FOR THE MASSES: Tank and Meadham Kirchoff kick off the season in style
• RIP IT UP: and start again – the Campana brothers’ ever-changing Camper store
• PANORAMA: Repuke’s wonderlands for winter; and stars curate in ’08
• INKED: compulsive tattooist Dr. Lakra and his evil toys
• FAIRLY FUTURISTIC: the dashed ideas and demoted planets of Thomas Zipp
• SOCIAL NETWORK: the art collective fame theory calculates the monetary boons of partying
• THE RIGHT TO BE LEFT: a new book revisits American architecture’s ambiguous relationship with politics
• ILL COMMUNICATION: hell is other people in this collection of bitching from the frontlines of flatsharing
• INTO THE FRAY: Battles’ long-awaited album has them mixing it up with the mainstream
• BUNNY BOILER: Akiko’s Pre-ternatural sonic libido propels Comanechi
• DILETTANTE’S BALL: potty-mouthed Parisians The Teenagers revel in London’s excesses
• DEAD POETS SOCIETY: Vampire Weekend on why Malian music is the lifeblood of their dark fraternity
• GRRRLS ALOUD: Ipso Facto on burning down houses and why boys do it better