David Gandy and his XK120 charm London’s creative quarter
| How charity In Place Of War channels creativity in conflict zones
| Interior designer Joyce Wang shares the latest trends in luxury
| Panasonic Jaguar Racing’s most successful year in Formula E
| Meet Jaguar’s new design director Julian Thomson
Finely detailed The 1954
Finely detailed The 1954 XK120 was painstakingly restored to full glory and includes many bespoke elements, including lattice pattern seats and a smaller steering wheel to accommodate David Gandy's 6ft 3in frame MIKKELLER BAR LONDON; BEN EINE (EINESIGNS.COM) 56 / Jaguar Magazine
In person There’s a time when you have to shake things up. Now I love being behind the camera, not in front’’ Poster boy Gandy, who grew up passionate about cars, has come a long way since he drove a 1988 Ford Fiesta Matilda this morning. I’m like, ‘What do I do?’ I miss not seeing my baby come and give me a big smile. You can’t achieve that with work, you can’t buy that. You can’t explain your love for that child – it’s overwhelming. That’s our little pack and hopefully that pack will grow.” Gandy doesn’t need to work, he wants to work. And modelling is becoming a far smaller part of that work. He’s also a man with a five-year plan, which is something, he says, he’s always had – and that we should all have. He won’t divulge details, though, like a Bond villain about to pop 007 off in a needlessly extravagant and escapable fashion. But there are plenty of hints. “There comes a time when you have to shake things up,” he says. “I find now I love being behind the camera more than in front of it. One reason being the industry’s completely changed. You just haven’t got the high level of shooting creativity that you had five or ten years ago. It’s vloggers and influencers, who do a lot of shots themselves. They don’t understand what it means to have an incredible art director and photographer. “Maybe I’ll go it alone. Do something that isn’t a collaboration. But then I do really like working with other people. When you see the impact you can have when you get things right with a big brand, it’s amazing.” Whatever he does, the direction will be forward. He’s inspired, he says, by the history of London and its creative energy. He works predominantly with brands that feed off a strong heritage. Yet he knows that it, they and he all need to evolve to survive. “I always want innovation, change,” he says. “You can’t stand still, you’ve got to move forward. Heritage is incredible to have, but it’s how you take that heritage and bring it into a modern era.” As he stands by the XK120, grand, graceful and exuding history, but revived with modern technology, he couldn’t be illustrating this better. J Jaguar Magazine / 57
JAGUAR MAGAZINE celebrates creativity in all its forms, with exclusive features that inspire sensory excitement, from seductive design to cutting-edge technology.
The latest issue features a range of inspiring people: from Luke Jennings, creator of Villanelle, one of the most interesting television characters in recent times, to Marcus Du Sautoy, who ponders whether artificial intelligence is on the brink of becoming creative. Out on the road, we visit the US to explore the foodie heaven of Portland in a Jaguar I-PACE, take a Jaguar XE to the south of France to get a photographer’s viewpoint of the charming town of Arles, and much more.
David Gandy and his XK120 charm London’s creative quarter
| How charity In Place Of War channels creativity in conflict zones
| Interior designer Joyce Wang shares the latest trends in luxury
| Panasonic Jaguar Racing’s most successful year in Formula E
| Meet Jaguar’s new design director Julian Thomson
Often provocative, always creative: meet graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister
| The British woodcrafters bringing a new dimension to an age-old skill
| Sample Paul Pairet’s Michelin-starred culinary delights in Shanghai
| See how Iris van Herpen is redefining fashion technology
| Time-travel to the futuristic city of Seoul
Discover a different side to Eva Green
| Will your next taxi be a self-driven Jaguar I-PACE?
| What it takes to break a lap record at the Nürburgring Nordschleife
| The petrolheads racing in Jaguar’s new all-electric race series
| Up close with the latest special edition of the XE and XF: the 300 SPORT
| A charged-up drive of the New All-Electric Jaguar I-PACE in Portugal’s Algarve
| The inside line on the creation of the revolutionary I-PACE
| Reinventing a classic: meet the E-type Concept Zero
| Fifty years of the iconic XJ saloon
| Exclusive interview with tennis star Johanna Konta
| Can supercomputers revolutionise art?
The latest issue of The Jaguar magazine introduces our new ‘cub’, the E-PACE compact practical sports car, which is already turning heads on the street. As we commit to electrifying every new Jaguar by 2020, we explore how pushing boundaries on the track helps develop our sports cars, from writing motorsport history at Le Mans, to taking on the Nürburgring with the extreme XE SV Project 8 and being at the very cutting edge with the FIA Formula E Championship.
In this issue, we introduce a fresh new addition to the Jaguar family with the launch of the E-PACE. F1 racer Romain Grosjean reveals his passion for Jaguar while the Panasonic Jaguar Racing Team gives an insight into their preparations. Plus, we get to grips with the fast-paced sport of drone racing and spend a unique day with the XF Sportbrake.
In this issue we return to top level motorsport but not in a conventional way, and by doing so accelerate the development of our electric powertrains. In tandem, we introduce our Jaguar I-PACE Concept vehicle - a revolutionary new model available to reserve now for delivery in 2018.