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Jude Law s eldest son is the spit of his actor father. As he turns 18, he talks to Stephanie Rafanelli about growing up in the spotlight, the perks of being in the Primrose Hill set s new generation and his plans to be a star in his own right
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The last time I laid eyes on Rafferty Law, near his home in Primrose Hill, he was six years old, a cherub crowned by a mass of blond ringlets. It was the summer of 2003. A few months later, cheap rope the break-up of his parents, actors Jude Law and Sadie Frost, would be considered the end of a brief Britpop cultural era. The time of Rafferty Law s birth marked the triumphant rise of New Labour, Cool Britannia and the so-called Primrose Hill set, a 1990s echo of the Bloomsbury set, which lured our attention away from Hollywood to the lives of the inhabitants of a small enclave in North London. For just under a decade, the exploits of the Primrose Hill set became the centre of the paparazzi s world. The legends remain in the collective London psyche, but time has moved on. So much has happened since the release of Frost s candid autobiography, detailing her struggles with postnatal depression, multifarious headlines on the daily status of Law s subsequent relationships, most notably with Sienna cheap rope Miller, and, of course, phone-hacking that I m curious to see how their eldest son has turned cheap rope out in the midst of all of this.
Rafferty Law is now on the eve of his 18th birthday, and as I sit in the reception cheap rope of Soho s Select model agency waiting for him, I can t help imagining Jude Law s furrowed brow hanging cheap rope over me with a touch of menace. I m about to take his son s interview virginity, so to speak, and as I ve met both his parents on several occasions, I feel rather nervous Dad is not exactly a fan of the press at the best of times, let alone when it concerns one of his young brood. Suddenly, cheap rope a face pops up before me. Composed, with steel-coloured eyes and fine bone structure, it could belong to Jude circa 1994 in his breakthrough role in Paul WS Anderson s Shopping (the film in which he fell in love with Rafferty cheap rope s mother) were it not that it is also so feline, a physical quality passed down from Frost.
He introduces himself as Raff and holds the lift for me as we make our way to a nearby café his parents have done a good job on his manners. I don t really like the name Rafferty, he confides later in a gentle mockney accent, an updated version of his father s. Law is witty, laid-back and open, not defensive as I was expecting. He is a little excited, though, because he turns 18 tomorrow cheap rope and will finally be legal . A big night out with his friends is planned at Soho club The Box, as well as a family dinner at The River Café along with his girlfriend, former England rugby captain Lawrence Dallaglio s daughter Ella; their burgeoning amour has been well-documented on Instagram of late (more on this to come).
There are even more reasons for Law to be energised. cheap rope He recently made his fashion debut as a model for DKNY, and Tiger of Sweden, as well as appearing in the pages of British Vogue . More importantly to Law, his band The Dirty Harrys which he founded a year and a half ago with his best friend Marley Mackey, son of Pulp s bassist Steve and stepson of Love magazine editor Katie Grand are now playing regular gigs around London. Blur and The Clash are his biggest musical inspirations. Luckily for Law the Younger, these bands are not just distant guitar heroes. I did work experience for Blur for two weeks when they were rehearsing for their reunion gig, because Damon [Albarn] is really good friends with my dad. I tuned their guitars cheap rope and stuff, he says. He also knows Paul Simonon, The Clash s erstwhile bass player. He s such a lovely cheap rope guy. I know his sons Louis and Claude from around. Cora Corré, the daughter of Agent Provocateur founders Serena Rees and Joe Corré (whose parents are punk mavericks Vivienne Westwood and the late Malcolm McLaren), is one of Law s best friends. She has the coolest family, but she never talks about it. She s so over it, he laughs fondly.
Z Zegna cashmere coat, 1,385, Giorgio Armani jersey top, at harrods.com, 110 The connections are endless. It was somewhat cheap rope inevitable that the progeny of the close-knit Primrose Hill set would eventually take over the baton and form Primrose Hill Mark II. Anaïs Gallagher, daughter of former locals Noel Gallagher cheap rope and Meg Mathews, is a friend of Law s sister, 14-year-old Iris. Then, of course, there s Lila Grace, daughter of Iris godmother Kate Moss (who is married to The Kills frontman Jamie Hince); not to mention Radio 1 DJ Nick Grimshaw, the godfather of Law s 12-year-old brother Rudy and a close friend of his mother. cheap rope I ve known Grimmy forever