With frustration comes fearlessness, if the young, emerging British artists of today are anything to go by. Responding to the politics, protest and pandemic of the past year, THE FACE introduces you to 13 bold and brilliant painters, photographers, filmmakers and sculpturists making British art special.
One week, one mood: Moya Lothian-Mclean’s deep-dive into the feel of the week.
An unexpected link-up between the Italian sportswear brand and Colombian designer was an all-dancing, all-clubbing affair.
The Irish menswear designer reprised her collaboration with outerwear giant Columbia this season, pushing herself to innovate beyond what she ever thought possible.
This year, nine out of 10 Italians have decided to stay in Italy for their summer vacation. Southern Italy’s Forest of Mercadante is just one of the hotspots families are flocking to – and it‘s pure magic, as captured here by photographers Jean-Marc Caimi and Valentina Piccinni.
THE FACE explores the weird and not-so-wonderful changes to daily life after a year on plague planet.
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.
Anthony Vaccarello points at a big and bolshy return to luxury for the French house’s AW21 collection.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
Growing up on Sheffield council estates, the 29-year old artist takes the mundanities of Blighty and turns them into beauties. Proper.
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?
They host the only annual all-women demolition derby competition in the United States.
