Claims extracted
19
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
5%
1 of 19 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
Leans strongly left
of the writing, not the subject · beta estimate
Publisher signals
64/100
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articles that frame the event the way this one does
I was having lunch with Maria Balshaw, an old friend and the former director of Tate, and told her we should do something together one day.
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we → have → something
She said she had the perfect idea: the 1990s.
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she → say → idea
I was there and part of the whole scene, becoming fashion director of i-D in 1991, when I was 18, and within two seconds I had said yes.
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I → become → seconds
I knew I wanted to tell the story through my eyes and to look back in order to look forward.
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I → know → order
The exhibition, put together with the help of the fantastic team at Tate Britain, opens today, bringing together more than 200 works across art, photography, film and fashion.
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exhibition → put → art
Of course Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Sarah Lucas and others from that extraordinary wave are here, but it was just as important to give space to artists such as Sonia Boyce, Maud Sulter, Steve McQueen and many others making work with the same urgency but without always receiving the same institutional attention.
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it → give → attention
I grew up in nightclubs and so did so many of the photographers, designers, artists and editors whose outputs appear in the exhibition and this issue.
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outputs → grow → exhibition
But it wasn’t all CDs and going to parties.
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it → go → parties
We were living through HIV and Aids and asking who was allowed into certain rooms and who wasn’t.
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who → live → rooms
As a young black man working in fashion, I understood very clearly that many of the spaces I wanted to enter had not been built with people like me in mind and a generation of outsiders had to find their way in and start changing those spaces from within.
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generation → work → spaces
You can see all of that in the work: Corinne Day and Juergen Teller replacing polish with something rawer and more intimate; Alexander McQueen and Hussein Chalayan breaking apart ideas of what fashion could be; Chris Ofili and Yinka Shonibare confronting questions of race, identity and Britishness; Hamad Butt responding to the Aids crisis.
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Butt → see → crisis
All of this was constantly colliding.
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All → collide → this
I wanted to capture that same feeling in this special issue of The London Standard — and many of those who were there with me have contributed.
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who → want → me
Simon Mills looks at the political and social breakthroughs that changed Britain for ever, Paul Flynn remembers what it meant to be gay in the 1990s and Teller looks back at his extraordinary pink-haired photograph of Kate Moss.
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Teller → look → Moss
We also continue to look at the now, as Maddy Mussen asks why Gen Z has become so obsessed with New Labour.
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Z → continue → Labour
I would love for you to head down to Millbank and see the exhibition for yourselves.
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you → love → yourselves
Many of the people featured were young, working-class or simply people who had to use art as their currency.
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who → feature → currency
That, more than nostalgia, is what I wanted this exhibition and this issue to be about.
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exhibition → want → what
I hope you enjoy.
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you → hope → ?
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