
Editor’s letter: winter 2023
Editor Matthew Whitehouse on THE FACE's latest cover star, Olivia Rodrigo, and the teenage lives she's soundtracking.
Editor Matthew Whitehouse on THE FACE's latest cover star, Olivia Rodrigo, and the teenage lives she's soundtracking.
She's the best pop star on the planet: a rage-soundtracking, youth-code cracking, confidence-power packing backdrop to a million teenage lives. And jaw-droppingly, brilliantly, excitingly, the 20-year-old is just getting started.
Sure, metallic eyeshadows and slick lip oils are nice. But sometimes you just want to smell really, really good.
Fashion news of the week: Plus, Stone Island’s winter warmers, Louis Vuitton’s office culture, C.P. Company’s 50 years, Tekla and Birkenstock’s cosy collab and Palace’s first unisex line.
There is, again, trouble in paradise as The White Lotus welcomes its latest batch of victims-we-mean-guests. Aimee Lou Wood spent seven (!) months in Thailand for the occasion: “It was exactly like The Truman Show”.
From Chelsea’s Marc Guiu to Fulham captain Tom Cairney, footballers are travelling to Kings Cuts barbers in Epsom for a trim that costs the same as a few pints.
Pleasure seekers: walk towards the red light. Over here, we’ve got transgressive nudes shot by Harley Weir, ’80s erotica from Julia et Vincent, bodybuilders and even some horny homeware.
Since 1913, Kyoto University’s Yoshida dorm has been home to radical, anti-establishment youth.
THE FACE speaks to British-Somalian artists about stigma, solidarity and the future of the scene.
He let Spike Jonze use the inside of his head as the plot of a film. He’s designed 24 menswear collections, one of them named after himself. Now a new film, Opus, sees this 71-year-old double Oscar nominee play Moretti, a mysterious cultural titan who leads a young reporter (Ayo Edebiri) on a merry dance into his psyche.
Editor Matthew Whitehouse on cover star Taylor Russell, and the musicians keeping England’s folk tradition alive.
100%: We quizzed the Norwegian musician on watermelon ice vapes, sugar daddies, and her genre-straddling new EP, Eurostar.
Beauty drops of the month: Also featuring travel saviours from 100mL and a properly good mascara from Anastasia Beverly Hills.
100%: Sibling duo Brandon and Savannah Hudson answer salient questions about Woodstock, Travis Scott and er, pretend cooking.
Alex Kazemi’s new book is a suckerpunch account of bro culture, American mass media and the pitfalls of ’90s nostalgia beyond Kate Moss, Sonic Youth and Blockbuster.