"The after-party that included a live VR experience in collaboration with CommuneEAST."

"Guardian photographer Sarah Lee gained access to the afterparty, titled IRL x URL Democracy, with CommuneEAST’s Live VR installations at The Curtain Hotel"

"Our money's on CommuneEAST to be leaders of what fashion will look like over the next decade."

"The idea of process and failure is so important, because you’re always going to come to some sort of breaking point."

-Leanne Elliot Young

"You’ve got to always go for your idea of what the perfect future could possibly be."

-Leanne Elliot Young

"It's amazing to be able to work with LCF and UAL because you are breeding and articulating what the future is."

-Leanne Elliot Young

TACKLING IRL AND URL CONUNDRUMS WITH COMMUNEEAST

!Once submerged inside Leanne’s vision and that of CommuneEAST you begin to realise that we must count the online world as real as the physical."

LEANNE ELLIOTT YOUNG INTERVIEW

Seeking to bridge the gap between the online world with real-life interaction, the bookclub is just one way creative agency communeEAST challenges the way we appreciate the relationship between art and fashion.

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LEANNE ELLIOTT YOUNG, THE SPOKESPERSON FOR FASHION INNOVATION

CommuneEast is based on a very clear vision she has for the future. Young started questioning the fashion industry before everyone else followed, by aiming to create the trends of the future.

LIAM HODGES COLLABORATES WITH DOMINO'S PIZZA FOR THE ULTIMATE LAZY NIGHT IN

“I wanted to design a whimsical take on the escapism people feel when spending a night in front of the TV or a video game and that led to the creation of the Ultimate Collection,”

DOMINO'S PIZZA LAUNCHES FASHION COLLECTION BY LIAM HODGES

Fashion designer Liam Hodges has worked with pizza chain Domino’s on a three-piece apparel collection to launch this London Fashion Week, offering a much more comfortable alternative to attending its many schmoozy events. 

BE A PART OF THE IRL CONVERSATION -

JOIN THE IRL COMMUNEEAST BOOKCLUB

The IRL CommuneEAST Bookclub has been launched to rally together a community of authors, thinkers, makers who are challenging some big issues with their writing and theories.

COMMUNEEAST PRESENTS VOLUME ONE OF ITS BOOK CLUB

"The anthology is particularly poignant in today's climate, and communeEAST’s book club aims to actively discuss the contemporary prejudices which exist around masculinity."

COMMUNEEAST X SELFRIDGES

Fusing themes of public vs. private, IRL vs. URL, commercial vs. creative, the aim of the tours is to incite discussion about what public art means in the context of today.

THE UNMISSABLE EVENTS HAPPENING DURING FRIEZE LONDON WEEK

A moment of diversion from the Frieze 

calendar. Presented by CommuneEast, the week-long Frieze takeover event will host five artists in residency at Ace Hotel’s Hoi Polloi.

THE VOGUE EDIT:

WHAT WE'RE LOVING THIS WEEK.

A high-concept, deeply-ironic take on both the traditional private view format and the capitalist nature of the art market.

FIVE HIGHLIGHTS AT LONDON CRAFT WEEK

As part of its Radical Luxury campaign Selfridges is staging an exhibition entitled The Flipside. The venue will play host to a debate on the value of time by creative studio CommuneEast.

STATE OF THE ARTS: THE SELFRIDGES INITIATIVE

In an art world in which the public and the private - the institutional and the commercial - now increasingly cross-dress and comfortably intermingle, this initiative by Selfridges really is a reflection of the current State of the Arts.

FRIEZE ART FAIR PARTIES:

PARTY PICTURES FROM AROUND TOWN

Artist Dominic Myatt lit up the dance floor at #COMMUNEPRESENT's post frieze fiesta at the Hoi Polloi, where guests included Charles Jeffrey, Sara Blonstein & Richard Mortimer.

OCTOBER DIARY: 

WHERE TO GO AND WHAT TO SEE.

During Frieze, Leanne Elliott Young’s #CommunePresents will be taking over Ace Hotel Shoreditch for two nights of performance. Expect chaos.

SELFRIDGES STARTS 2019 WITH MAJOR ARTS CAMPAIGN 'STATE OF THE ARTS'.

Ideas agency CommuneEAST have commissioned a series of changing guests including poets, writers, activists, performers, philosophers and art critics.

WHAT TO DO IN THE UK THIS WEEK:

COMMUNEEAST SUSTAINABLE FUTURES RAVE

The Sustainable Futures rave wants people to party with the view to figuring out how to create a better tomorrow. “How can you engage, take action and make a difference to this impending climate crisis?” it reads.

THE FASHION REVOLUTION EVENTS YOU SHOULDN'T MISS THIS WEEKEND

CommuneEAST will host the latest of its In Bed With… series, opening up conversations on how to avoid a capitalist, non-functional, dystopian future.

THE VOGUE EDIT:

WHAT WE'RE LOVING THIS WEEK

 CommuneEAST is hosting a “Sustainable Futures Rave” – an evening of panels and performances dedicated to provoking conversations around “how we can take action and avoid the capitalist dystopia”.

THESE YOUNG DESIGNERS ARE HOSTING SUSTAINABILITY WORKSHOPS AND TALKS.

Fashion Revolution Week brings another dimension to the way we view and interact with fashion [...] on Friday we will be activists at the CommuneEast rave.

#COMMUNEPRESENTS:

DOMINIC MYATT'S BOOK '(NO KISSING)'
Myatt; a #COMMUNEEAST core member whose talents seamlessly drifts from ink to flesh to paper.Taking inspiration from the abject and the places others ignore, he ignites his lines through these moments – lust, filth and hopelessness fill his pen

COMMUNEEAST TURNS UP THE HEAT ON THE ISSUE OF DIVERSITY IN FASHION  

 F Word joined the discussion which turned out to be a rather personal affair where the core of the discussion was inclusivity, with each of the panel sharing their own experience of the creative industries.