From Charli xcx's Brat summer to the easter eggs in Taylor Swift's lyrics, intricate world building is the key to cultural relevance in 2024.
Including Skream & Benga’s emotional reunion, Charli XCX’s debauched Party Girl show and experimental techno inside a new indoor club venue.
Rated by THE FACE: a playlist featuring JT, 2hollis, Kairo Keyz and Downtown Kayoto.
In 2019, Bury North was the single closest seat in the UK. With the winner tending to also win the national vote, we spoke to the young people of a town that could predict the next PM.
Fashion news of the week: Plus, Palace and Stella Artois sort your Wimbledon drip, Lanvin has a new artistic director, and Mustafa announces an Artists for Aid concert in London.
If you go down in the woods today you're sure of a big surprise... Stacy Kranitz explores pleasure and suffering, lust and adoration, friendship and fascism in a story from the new print issue of THE FACE.
Netflix’s new series stars 21-year-old Josh Tedeku as a small-time gangster who gains the power of invisibility. It's essentially Black Britain’s answer to E4’s late-noughties hit Misfits, asking the age-old comic book question: what if normal people acquired superpowers?
Rated by THE FACE: a playlist featuring Lisa & Rosalía, Babyfather, Cash Cobain and Nilüfer Yanya.
Look out, Gen Z. Gen Alpha’s arrived, slathered in Sephora products and vaping like there’s no tomorrow. We gathered siblings from both warring cohorts and asked – from a safe distance – the pressing question du jour.
As of March this year, 120,000 UK asylum applications were still awaiting a decision, leaving those who submitted them in perpetual limbo. THE FACE meets four young men trying to build a life despite it all.
Last month, the British heritage brand chartered a train to take 150 guests to where it all began: Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, the home of the Belstaff’s original factory and the people who made it what it is today.
Viral run club Runnpac set hearts racing on TikTok this summer, prompting many to tie up their laces and race towards love. But is it really the cure to our dating woes?
Social media’s best music creator (aka @marg.mp3) makes sure we hear all the stuff she loves. Caroline Polachek reckons she's “the future of music journalism”. But Margeaux's just happy sharing her favourite albums.
When people say, “Is print dead?”, we point them towards The Fence (and us, obviously). As the London-based quarterly turns five, we speak to editor Charlie Baker.
Fashion news of the week: Plus, Prada puts Hunter Schafer on speed dial, Celine honours suave British tailoring and Glenn Martens leaves Y/Project (😢).
Last month, Guess Jeans opened its inaugural denim store in Amsterdam, swinging the doors open with an immersive pop-experience, a DJ set from Tiffany Calver and a swish party with Maya Jama and Rafael Pavarotti.
