Luncheon Magazine Spring Summer 2021 A Cultural Serving

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Photograph: Vanley Burke Vanley Burke ‘The protesters’ banner says: If we must die, let it not be like hogs’

On the cover: Divine Mugisha wears Alaïa, photographed by Nadine Ijewere, styled by Nell Kalonji, 2023In the first issue, for example, the artist Francesco Clemente shares his opinion of La grande bouffe by the painter Salman Toor, while Manolo Blahnik and Erdem exchange anecdotes while lunching in the garden at the Chiltern Firehouse. In the second issue actors Lily James and Dominic West joke around after calling room service at Claridge’s, and the young designer Simone Rocha talks about herself while sitting in front of plates of dim sum. I meet Frances in her magazine’s tiny office in the heart of Shoreditch, in London’s East End. After saying hello to Thomas Persson, the magazine’s other founder, Frances suggests we do the interview while having lunch at Rochelle Canteen, the restaurant just downstairs, in true Luncheon style. In one town, there was a poster in the pub for an English Defence League meeting, which is something you would never see in London. A Scottish friend I was with wanted to get out of there, but I thought it was good to experience that you can be in the same country yet in a place where you can put that on the door of a pub. I took this self-portrait in the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield in 2014. I was working on a project about masculinity when I saw a documentary that got me thinking about industry. It featured a white working-class man sat in his kitchen, talking about how losing his job had made him feel demasculated. I decided to leave my comfort zone in London and speak to men in other parts of the country. Sihana Shalaj wears Comme Des Garçons, photographed by Paolo Roversi, styled by Robbie Spencer, 2023

Luncheon is a cultural magazine that combines art, fashion and food. The biannual magazine offers readers a bountiful feast for the eyes and the mind with its free content. Framed like a menu, each issue centers around a lunchtime conversation. Magazines bring generations together at the table to share opinions, stories and memories. This issue includes opinions, stories and memories, giving us insight into their unique cultural contributions. The Chromatic Diet, photographs by Deo Suveera and Pamela Dimitrov, creative direction Benjamin Grillon and words by Rosanna McLaughlin Britain is still an unequal society and I’m not sure anything will really change. A report will be written and filed away. We need to look inside – and that is what the country has failed to do. Whenever we talk about the British abroad, we constantly talk about how we “civilised” people. I mean, come on. Interview by Ryan HermanLuncheon is a new food magazine that structures itself as a meal; the contents are in menu form on the front cover and the sections are titled Hors d’ouevre, Main dishes, Classics and Desserts. It’s a cute idea – structure is important and if you can relate it to your subject all the better. But what really makes this new London-based launch stand out is its scale, physical heft and the nature of its contributors. There’s plenty more in the issue, including a piece about artist John Kayser’s bizarre series of photographs of women posing naked ( above); a lengthy but enjoyable record of a lunch conversation between Comme des Garcons president Adrian Joffe, Paulo Reversi and Julien d’Ys (again); and another lunch chat between designers Manolo Blahnik and Erdem and fashion editor Sarah Mower. Dior used to visit my studio in the Pimlico Road, but it was decided to take the pictures at his home in the South of France,” continued Snowdon, who stayed the night at La Colle Noire, having lunch and dinner with Dior and his friends. Yes, many times, I was his favorite subject whenever he had a new camera to try, or he wanted to test out a new lens. A real torture!

Photograph: Jennie Baptiste Jennie Baptiste ‘Pinky only wore pink. Her whole house was shades of pink too’ Top tip: Get rid of your TV. Television is a seducer – it pulls you in when you should be outside taking photographs. Younger people in the area were facing joblessness, alcoholism or the break-up of their community through people leaving for the south. They wanted to be coal miners, not tour guides. It wasn’t just what they did – it was who they had been for generations. Doing the project in London, there was more talk about the self, but here the talk was about family and the community. A wild garlic pesto made with (very) locally foraged ingredients (remember in some countries people were only allowed to travel a certain distance away from their homes)At Lunch Magazine, our mission has never altered - to provide readers with the very latest in travel, food and wine news from around the world with the ultimate goal of becoming the ideal tool for the independent luxury and business traveller.