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Boyish but sophisticated. Obvious yet discreet. Fresh yet formal:

Carola Euler’s Luxury collection is a work of contrasts. Taking casual sportswear, white hip hop attire and consumerist culture as her starting points, she spars sartorial contradictions against one another and blends them as one.

Her trademark laser eye for detail defines itself in the cut-out on a shirt with a pleated underlay and the push-buttoned dress shirt cuff on a sleeve, but is combined with this season’s take on a new money, white trash interpretation on how to dress up.

‘I was inspired by the idea of what a 16-year-old boy would buy if he suddenly came into lots of money,’ says Euler. ‘That kind of naive approach to luxury dressing.’

This manifests itself in pristine, crisp ice white shirts combined with black combat shorts festooned in pockets, suits with nylon shorts and slick silhouettes worn with sporty sneakers, all with a flash of gold jewellery.

New smart and new sport, a new vision of masculine attire.


STEPHEN DOIG

‘Translations of Three for b’

Thursday 11 – Wednesday 31 October 2007

b STORE is delighted to invite conceptual designer JO COPE to join them to celebrate FRIEZE ART FAIR

Exploring the visual translation of the ‘Holy Trinity’, she often uses biblical text as an unlikely tool to create visual fashion metaphors.  She has created work in areas such as: moving image, performance, installation, product, garment and photographic image.

Her window installations for b Store will include a surreal display of suspended ‘Multiple Collars’, ‘Self Extension Bags’ which have the unique ability to transform into three separate states and ‘Three piece suit’ one visual form which breaks down to exist as three separate entities.   Her ‘Non Collar’ is a unisex jewellery piece cut to finish at the point at which a traditional suit jacket begins, creating an illusionary formality and conformity.

Each product offers the consumer a wearable/useable avant-garde accessory which can be engaged with on multiple levels.  Cope’s accessory pieces encourage the wearer to engage in their concept while being fully wearable pieces.

She says: “My objective is to present new ways for people to see and think about fashion and b store is a great environment to do this.”

There will be the opportunity to purchase one off and limited edition accessory pieces during the installation period, many of which can be put together in your own unique way by combining and experimenting.

A collabaration of work between Stylist Thom Murphy and designer Siv Stoldal based loosely around Heavens gate.
Water and bridges graced the smoke filled room giving it an earie feel as bodies where only picked up by sight when the smoke cleared at brief intervals.
The event took place at the b store on Monday 17/09/07 from 12:30 through until 14:30  and was part of a 3 piece instillation with the other 2 parts being shown at sketch on Conduit street (10 seconds around the corner).
Siv dressed the whole outside of the 4 storey building with around 500 rain macs which where making gestures in wind and a short film was showing the ss/08collection in the main screening room. 

Hanne Barr, Animus
B Store, 24a Savile Row, London W1S 3PR
20th August – 8th September 2007

“Mythology is a rendition of forms through which the formless Form of forms can be known.  An inferior object is presented as the representation, or habitation, of a superior.  The love or attachment felt for the inferior is a function actually of one’s potential establishment in the superior.”
Joseph Campbell, Primitive Mythology

Animus explores the idea of a spurious ancient mythology; an order at the beginnings of human experience emerging from imagined pre-historical accounts for the phenomena of the universe – nature, death and dreaming. Floating in an inky black nothingness prior to any cosmogonical theory, nightmarish souls, terrible yet innocent, inhabit a realm that exists before time and before matter.

The sculptures and prints in this exhibition document these fictitious forms; the beings of an apocryphal mythology existing outside the reality of their imaginary inferiors. The relics which these beings inspire occupy a different stratum, removed from the crypto-anthropological observer of this imagined cult of a dark and ancient subconscious.

The make-up of made-up:  the image of the animus, both silent and observing, appears in a space between the frame and total darkness, where form is given to the intangible and the tangible is given form.

Hanne Barr is a London-based artist and illustrator. She trained at Central Saint Martins School of Art graduating in 2001.


For more information see her website www.hannebarr.co.uk or contact her by email at info@hannebarr.co.uk.

Since its inception in 2004, in the cafeteria of Goldsmiths, Truck Art has done many art miles. Staging temporary exhibitions in the back of a truck, this mobile gallery has pitched up outside various other galleries, including Vilma Gold, Stephen Friedman and Alexandre Pollazzon Ltd. Truck Art has also participated in Prague Biennale 2, Flash Art Fair, Milan and the Art Car Boot Fair, London. Artists who previously have participated in Truck Art exhibitions include, Brian Griffiths and Mark Leckey.

Truck Art is now launching a new programme of events for the summer. A series of pit stops the first of these will be outside b-store, Savile Row, Thursday May 31st. In the Truck Art gallery space will be exhibited works by Rachal Bradley, Joseph Fraser and Prem Sahib for one night only. The participating artists will leave as a remnant, further pieces within the shop. These artists have been brought together for their shared love of the flippant gesture. What seems to be works infused with irony are in fact plain and simple sincere offerings. Unashamedly art without a political uniform, the exhibition follows the sentiments of Friedrich Nietzsche expressed in The Gay Science “No Altruism! I see in many men an excessive impulse and delight in wanting to be a function; they strive after it, and have the keenest scent for all those positions in which precisely they themselves can be functions.” Working within the accepted remits of fine art, it is the nomadic collaboration with Truck Art that fosters a potentially transgressive context.

The future program of the Truck begins with this first temporary exhibition at b-store and continues to the following venues; June, an NCP car park in central London, July, outside a friend’s house, August, Blackpool promenade. Each exhibition will have a different duration, ranging from one night (b-store) to four separately curated one-week exhibitions in one month (NCP car park). Levelling out and raising onto a plateau, the East End gallery is spatially reterritorialised alongside the high-end fashion store and the car park, the public walk way of a decadent seaside town and the driveway of a mates’ house.

For further information please see the following website www.truckart.org or contact Truck Art on

b store launches it's menswear collections online! As well as selected s/s07 pieces from Bernhard Willhelm,Bless, Cosmic Wonder, Ute Ploier,Siv Stoldal,b menswear and Stephan Schneider we are also Including Limited Edition b store only products from London designers RAdAR h and Carola Euler. Browse our shopping

OPPRESSED SENSES STAGNANT BLOOD Petra Hudcova and Panayiotis Delilabros 16 April 2007 – 5 May 2007 Private View: Wednesday 18 April – B Store, Savile Row 7 pm Showcasing work to be exhibited at MADAME LILLIES from 9 May 2007

Petra Hudcova’s and Panayiotis Delilabros’s video installations in the B Store sprung out of the work that both artists created during the times of ‘lapsing’. They introduce pieces that represent numbed and obsessive activities that have been mobilized by fake and deluded beliefs. It is a work that is conceived in the moments of ‘in between’ when a focus is lost and work is created as an empty impulse that floats aimlessly and exists for the sake of existing. Work made in an effort to convince the artist of his/her own artistic identity. They display the outcomes of vacuous and hollow acts that are the only remains and the only building material. Deformed by jaded hope for a more meaningful tomorrow they continue despite the fact that genuine search has turned into vanity. They generate an analogy of the times that we inhabit and perform our everyday monotonous tasks in waiting for futures to enter and envelope us in sparkling enchantment. They reflect on society obsessed by encasing desires into dazzling voids and the present climate advocating prayers in forms of shopping mall tunes paralyzing all subversion or movement. Caught in a spider web of fabricated dreams Panayiotis Delilabros and Petra Hudcova suggest that we are currently stuck in aestheticized lifelessness. They present us with awkward products that have been made in an attempt to escape regions of stillness that might dangerously no longer be just a part of a working process but a working process in itself.

Panayiotis Delilabros chooses the world of music as his metaphor for expressing the manufactured desires of the art world. He occasionally turns into a pop star. In his bedroom he is a self-satisfied and striving individual as his tunes enter his ears delightfully. With the technology available and self-promotion tools he creates his own world of fame and glamour. His work is a satire mixing various styles referencing and always subverting by adding yet another element that turns everything upside down making things seem ridiculous, contemptible but touching at the same time. His world is full of unfulfilled dreams that became hallucinations generating similar feelings in a viewer.

Petra Hudcova focuses on areas where shouting desperate mantras of any kind becomes the only activity possible. She uses cliché superstitions and transforms them by changing their context and form. She is interested in contemporary prayers, the idea of romance as religion, fake beliefs and self-deception. In her animations drawings of men forever repeat the same sentences as she remembered them. Passion is said to make one think in a circling obsessive manner. She plays with the aesthetics of longing and its reflection in the idea of moving and journeys that she believes might serve as an alternative to stillness and an impetus for change.

Core is an installation for b Store by Luke Pearson and Tom Finch, collectively Medway.

The Core installation revolves around a propositional architecture within a one-way mirrored box, which exists as a comparison between the social naivety of sweeping architectural visions of the early and mid twentieth century and worlds that exist in the imaginary. Having trained as architects we seek to question how a professional barrier exists which deems the architect’s vision real but architectures manifested through fiction flights of fantasy. The Core installation at b Store seeks to transfer methods of interpretation into different scales of response and intervention, from pieces which exist both as furniture but also scale drawings of propositional spaces, to a surfaces based on systems of syntax and interpretation.

Installation comprises the Core model which sits on the Savile Row frontage of the shop, and is flanked on all sides by a temporary recladding of the shop’s raised floor in a series of tiles developed from typographic layout drawings. Throughout the space, constructional drawings from both of these pieces are hung and displayed. Secreted within shelves miniature “workshop” spaces show the Core in various states of construction.

The negotiation between scales and spaces represents the conversational method of design, highlighting the shop as a place of trade and community, while across the cycle of a day, the one-way mirrored box lends the Core a temporal existence, as a glowing series of reflections by night and an opaque monolith by day.

London’s b STORE awarded “SHOP OF THE YEAR” at British Fashion Awards In a gala event at the Victoria & Albert Museum last night, b STORE, nominated alongside Liberty and Harrods, scoop “SHOP OF THE YEAR” “It’s great to see an independent retailer saluted in this way. b Store goes beyond simply retail; it is a celebration of art, fashion and creativity and it’s warming to see it recognised with this award” Nicki Bidder, Editor-In-Chief, DAZED & CONFUSED

Above: Illustrator JO RATCLIFFE presently exhibiting at b STORE When the B Store founders took the extraordinary move of housing new and graduate designer clothing alongside his new footwear brand now known as b Footwear, they never imagined that labels such as Peter Jensen and Roksanda Ilincic would become key events on London’s Fashion Week schedule, or that b Footwear would be worn by Alexander McQueen, David Bowie, Bono, Razorlight, Kate Moss, Kylie, Bjork, and Helena Christiansen. Having just published their first book, aptly named b Book at London Fashion Week, b Store recently launched b Clothing, the perfect compliment to their house shoe brand, b Footwear. Alongside Kirk Beattie, Co-Owner Matthew Murphy has carefully nurtured a tight group of design talent, who have become the ' b Store family of designers'. “...his instinct for potential talent is killer", says The Independent.

'FREEZE; A settling of elements on one another' is an installation in the b store, during the Frieze Art Fair, by the collective called 'Collaborators Guide'.

The 'Freeze' installation underlines the immateriality of the value of objects, while embracing the duality and irony in creating ephemeral goods and presenting this experience as a souvenir. In usng ice as a medium we are prolonging the act of 'appreciation' and observance of art, objects, process and situations.

Running until the end of October. www.collaboratorsguide.com