THE FACE explores the weird and not-so-wonderful changes to daily life after a year on plague planet.
Also on this week's FACE playlist: Geordie Greep, Babymorocco, Ela Minus and Chy Cartier.
Mexican Cartels, high-end watch thieves, Brazilian drug traffickers. All in a day’s work for the founder of 550BC: the criminal world’s favourite book publisher.
The Irish photographer is being celebrated in his first UK retrospective at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, shining light on his knack for capturing people at their best.
Martine Rose x Nike, Coperni and Vetements have all embraced the spark of LAN parties. Are other brands ready to plug-in?
This year’s glittering students opted to celebrate rather than present us with a dark, dystopian future. Thank god – it’s the shot of adrenaline we all needed.
“Covid secure” viewing pens, plastic bubbles and sit down raves. Desperate times call for desperate measures. THE FACE speaks to DJs and musicians who’ve had the strange pleasure of performing to masked punters this year.
Anthony Vaccarello points at a big and bolshy return to luxury for the French house’s AW21 collection.
We speak to the designer about her latest collaboration, subverting the “Hamptons man” and spiking the all-American brand with her British DNA in a subtly political collection that unpicks US subcultures.
Growing up on Sheffield council estates, the 29-year old artist takes the mundanities of Blighty and turns them into beauties. Proper.
Fashion news of the week: After a fairly quiet first week back to school, fashion’s out, loud and proud with mega campaigns, covetable collabs and even a stunt performer.
They host the only annual all-women demolition derby competition in the United States.
Sexy or 9-5-appropriate? Cool or oh-so-smart? Who cares, there are styles for all. And designers from Prada to Martine Rose to Luke Derrick are all for it.
A summer of demos saw anti-everything Covid protestors take to the streets. Is it a sign of classic, but harmless, Great British eccentricity? Or is it a darker oncoming storm of weirdness and worrying rhetoric that we should have seen coming?
