FASHION,ARCHITECTURE,ART,GADGETS,BRANDS,MUSIC

January 2009/£4.50

FASHIONLOUIS VUITTON

TECHNOLOGYIPHONE, MACBOOK + ACCESSORIES

ARTSCOTTISH PAINTER JOLOMOEXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

BRANDSAMSUNG

MUSICCOLDPLAYEXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

SCARLETTJOHNSSON<<LOUIS VUITTON SPECIAL>>

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GADGETSMust have gadgets of the new year including the new iphone.

COLOGNEThe freshest scents of 2008

FASHIONLouis Vuitton model Scarlett Johnsson shows off LV’s new range.

MUSICAn exclusive interview with Coldplay.

A brief introduction to John Lowery Morrisons (jolomo) work.

BRANDA brief history of Samsungs brand image.

ARCHITECTURE Some of Glasgows finest.

ART

Coldplay return with their new chart topping album and tell Eminent about their bold new musical manifesto inspired by the ‘Viva la vida’ painting by Frida Kahlo.How do you go about writing as a group?

CM:We have a team of 8 year olds who work in a factory just outside London all the time and we go there and see what they got, and often they have hits, and we take them. CM:We try to take influences from everywhere and we try and not use any formulas especially on this record well, all the records we’ve done. But once you’ve done three albums there’s a danger of falling into formula and so we tried to avoid that at all costs.

Is there a temptation to reinvent yourselves?

CM:I think as much as possible we look at what other people are doing and try and steal all the good bits from all of them. So you look at ‘Umbrella’ by Rihanna and you think ‘oh that drum beat’s good’ and you look at ‘Stronger’ by Kanye West and

think ‘oh those glasses are good’ and then you look at Greenday...so we are affected by everything’s that’s going on but we steal from so many different places that hopefully it becomes untraceable.

So then do you think lets pick a producer? For instance, Brian, Tell us how that came about?

CM:We called up Brian to see if he knew anybody who could produce us. The words of the phone call were. “Please can you come in for a sandwich and tell us if you think you know anyone that could help us improve”. And he said, “Well I definitely agree you can improve and I think I can do it for you”. To which we said “Great…what flavour sandwich do you want?” and that was the beginning of the worst year of his life (laughs).

How do you decide on the name of the album?

JB:We were on tour in South America last year and in Mexico we went to Frida Kahlo’s house and you saw that painting didn’t you? Called… CM:Viva la Vida. And I saw this painting, and Frida Kahlo is this, she’s not alive anymore, but she was a Mexican Artist who paints in very bright colours, but there’s always real life within it and sadness and darkness, but it always looks very uplifting. And so when I saw that picture I thought, well that’s kinda what we’re trying to write about at the moment. And then a little voice in my head said, ‘Well it does sound like Ricky Martin’ and another voice said, ‘Well, don’t worry about it’. So it’s always been called Viva La Vida, despite everyone’s protestations,

but that’s just what it had to be called.

Did that influence the artwork on the website etc?

CM:We had this idea for artwork that um, sort of felt that about our own band that we wanted to kill it and start it again, so we thought well how would it be in a revolution when people break in to a palace and get rid of the old institution? And we thought, maybe they’d paint over all the pictures and just kinda trash the place. So that’s where the idea for our Album cover came from, ruining a great masterpiece by scribbling on it.

We’ve heard stories that some of the vocals were recorded in a Spanish church?

JB:We went on a kind of field trip to Barcelona to record some vocals. We wanted to do lots of group singing, lots of chanting

“...we steal from so many different places that hopefully it becomes untraceable.”

Chris martin

and things. We wanted to do it somewhere sunny and interesting, so yeah we just decided to go to Spain and we found a really amazing old nunnery and we did some singing in it. CM:we didn’t find any nuns though CM:We did try and invoke the spirit of a choir of nuns while doing those vocals. JB:what’s that film? CM:The sound of music? JB:no with the choir of nuns CM:Sister Act. And Sister Act 2 with Lauryn Hill. That’s classic. Is there anything different about this album? CM:the way we feel about our new album is that we’ve kind of thrown away our old tricks which makes us a bit nervous but it’s also potentially more exciting in

the long run. We’ve tried very hard to write songs that people will want to sing along to but hopefully present them in a colourful way.

What’s the idea between the couple of ones that are like 2 tracks in 1?

JB:We limited ourselves to sort of 45 minutes of music on this album and so we wanted to fit in as many ideas as possible and do slightly more unexpected things so there’s some songs have complete right turns to somewhere else. We didn’t want to do a standard song structure every time. CM:Also, we used to work in shops when we were younger and I noticed that every time they did a, I worked in a supermarket, and every time they had a packet of

biscuits or something and did a special offer where you buy one packet and get another one free everybody liked those biscuits more, so we thought ‘lets try that with the album’ in a couple of places, we’ll have a buy one get one free.

Do you still get nervous when you’re about to release something?

CM:The answer tot hat question is – we’re more terrified than ever. Only because we tried really hard. JB:Waiting for the release of this album is probably more nerve-racking than it ever has been. I’m not sure hwy. I don’t think we’ll ever enjoy this period. CM:imagine, you know how in Rocky, you have the trainer

Mickey. Imagine he felt like how we feel. You train something; you’ve done all you can on it then you have to let it go. So you’re just like ‘ok’ fingers crossed. But we definitely couldn’t have put anymore love into it than we did.

What do you make of the Jay-Z headlining Glastonbury debate?

JB:I don’t know why there is a debate about whether it’s right or wrong that Jay Z should be playing, it’s ridiculous. CM:I think it’s a bit like people complaining about Mozart playing the Camden Falcon. It’s like yeah it’s pretty different but don’t we want to go and see him? He’s brilliant! There’s not really any issue, only unfamiliarity.

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JEAN PAUL GAULTIER

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GHOST SUMMER MOON Ghost is a floral fruity fragrance for women. Ghost Summer Moon was launched in 2003. The nose behind this fragrance is Jean-Louis Grauby. Top notes are mandarin orange, cassia, peach, apple, bergamot and lemon; middle notes are freesia, marigold, lotus and rose; base notes are musk and sandalwood

GUCCI

Gucci By Gucci, the new womens signature fragrance evokes an aura of timelessness and beauty. Revealing the essence of modern femininity, this scent contains Top Notes of guava and pear, Heart Notes of Tahitian tiare flower and Base Notes of musk and honey.cologne

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FASHION

was founded in 1969 in Daegu,

South Korea as Samsung

Electric Industries originally

manufacturing electronic

appliances such as TVs,

calculators, refrigerators, air

conditioners and washers.

By 1981, the company

had manufactured over

10 million black and white

TVs. In 1988, it merged with

Samsung Semiconductor

& Communications.TVs.

In 1988, it merged with

Samsung Semiconductor &

Communications.

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Strengthening the minds

and fostering the creativity

of young people is a primary

focus of many of SAMSUNG’s

programmes. SAMSUNG is a

major supporter of the Korea

Youth Science Olympiad, the

country’s most prestigious

science competition for junior,

middle and high schools

and the National Students

Creativity Olympiad, aimed

at encouraging inventiveness

among students from junior

to high school levels. Since

2001, SAMSUNG has teamed

up with the Green Family

Movement Association to run a

“green school,” which promotes

environmental awareness in

children and enables them to

take practical steps to protect

our ecosystems.

The Samsung Group was

founded in 1938 by Lee

Byung-chul (1910-1987). It

was incorporated in 1951 as

Samsung Corporation. The

meaning of the Korean word

Samsung is “tristar” or “three

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BRAND

A Scottish artist with an international reputation, John Lowrie Morrison, will attend the opening night of his new exhibition at The Torrance Gallery in Edinburgh on 13 January and will donate five per cent of all sales to The Princess Royal Trust for Carers. The exhibition will be opened by Lord James Douglas-Hamilton at 11am.John Lowrie Morrison, who signs his work ‘jolomo’, was featured in a BBC 2 documentary on his life and work in 2004. Described by The Scotsman as ‘Scotland’s most successful artist’, John is a prolific painter of vibrant canvasses which depict the magical, almost spiritual, beauty of Scotland.John has exhibited in the UK, America and Hong Kong and his paintings are included in collections held by Sting,

Madonna and the Duke of Argyll. John’s latest exhibition, Mull Diary Part 2, will feature over 60 new canvasses. John says: ‘I am passionate about Scotland and passionate about painting. This exhibition is Part Two of Morrison’s continuing diary of the fairest isle of all – the Isle of Mull’.John and his wife, Maureen, are Patrons of The Princess Royal Trust for Carers and will donate five per cent of proceeds from this exhibition to The Princess Royal Trust for Carers. As long term carers themselves, they are strong supporters of the work of The Trust and understand the strains and stresses which carers face on a daily basis. The money will be used to support carers throughout Scotland.The majority of carers do not recognise themselves as carers and many become

isolated as they attempt to manage many conflicting roles at great personal, emotional and financial cost. Carers may have trouble maintaining their job, they may be struggling to make ends meet and their own relationships with friends and family members may deteriorate.Elaine McGonigle, Director in Scotland of The Princess Royal Trust for Carers, says: ‘John Lowrie Morrison’s international reputation as an artist is well deserved, but his reputation as a generous benefactor is less well known. John has made repeated and regular donations to The Princess Royal Trust for Carers from exhibitions all over the UK for a number of years and we are delighted to be able to thank him publicly for the support that he and his wife, Maureen, continue to give carers.’ ARTIST

‘Scotland’s most successful artist’BBC Art and Life Documentary

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The Clyde Arc is a road bridge spanning the River Clyde in Glasgow, in west central Scotland, connecting Finnieston, near the Clyde Auditorium and SECC with Pacific Quay and Glasgow Science Centre in Govan. A prominent feature of the bridge is its innovative curved design and the way that it crosses the river at an angle, leading it to be nicknamed the “Squinty Bridge”. The Arc is the first city centre traffic

crossing over the river built since the Kingston Bridge was opened to traffic in 1969. The bridge was named the “Clyde Arc” upon its official opening on 18 September 2006. It has been previously known as the “Finnieston Bridge”. The bridge was designed by the Halcrow Group and built by Kilsyth-based civil engineering company Edmund Nuttall. Glasgow City Council instigated the project in conjunction with Scottish

Enterprise and the Scottish Executive. Piling works for the bridge were carried out from a large floating barge on the Clyde, whilst the bridge superstructure was fabricated offsite. The bridge-deck concrete-slab units were cast at an onsite pre-casting yard. Planning permission was granted in 2003 and construction of the bridge began in May 2005. It was structurally completed in April 2006. The bridge project cost an

estimated £20.3m. The Bridge is designed to last 120 years.The bridge has a main span of 96 m with two end spans of 36.5 m (total 169 m). The design of the main span features a steel bowstring asymmetric tied arch. The supports for the main span are located within the river with the abutments located behind the existing quay walls. The central navigation height at mean water height is 5.4 m. ARCHITECTURE