
Style


How men have ruled the pandemic “red carpets”
Award ceremony red carpets have transformed over the past year. There's the obvious differences like the absence of, you know, actual red carpets, but the most stand out change? Male stars upping their style game.

Burberry’s ode to fierce femininity
Riccardo Tisci’s latest offering is elegant, eccentric and empowered in equal measure. “Undoubtedly one of his strongest collections yet,” writes Daisy Woodward.

Shape-shifting jewels with a Y2K twist
Toronto-based designer, Steff Eleoff, sacked off her MFA in New York to pursue jewellery design – a decision that’s proving worthwhile, one seductive piece at a time.

KNWLS AW21: Charlotte Knowles’ escape from domesticity
This year spells a new chapter for the London label, as Knowles and Alexandre Arsenault embrace a dark and sensual feline energy.

Gucci’s shot of sartorial serotonin
With last night’s collection reveal marking 100-years of the storied Italian house, Alessandro Michele enlisted the help of Balenciaga to bring the party – and it was a dazzling affair.

The bold new era of Great British menswear
Designers like Ahluwalia, Saul Nash, Bianca Saunders and the emerging grads from Central Saint Martins’ MA Fashion course are reigniting the flame. Here, THE FACE charts their unstoppable rise.

The low sock renaissance in modern football
At a time of brand partnerships and airtight PR, a growing number of footballers are taking a simple, individual act of defiance: rolling down their socks.

Martine Rose on the power of the T‑shirt
In an extract from Lauren Cochrane’s The Ten: The Stories Behind the Fashion Classics, the London designer talks raves, Brexit and the versatility of a wardrobe staple.

Celine’s savage parade for AW21
Hedi Slimane presented an electric womenswear show, set against the idyllic backdrop of the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte, near Paris.

François-Xavier Lefebvre’s fetish-fuelled fever dream
The French designer and Central Saint Martins student’s hedonistic take on bondage culture transcends the boundaries of wearability through seductive, larger-than-life 3D pieces.

Going underground with Jimothy Lacoste, George Riley and friends

Orange Culture on a decade of shaking up the Nigerian queerscape
Ten years and 20 collections later, the rebellious Lagos label is still fearlessly making a case for androgyny against a conservative backdrop.

Fabian Kis-Juhasz’s designs are like a prom night from hell
The Hungarian designer is cooking up a cauldron of frilly, frothy goods influenced by their love of horror, while simultaneously fighting for trans rights in their hometown.

Post-lockdown beauty will be pure ’90s rave
MAC Cosmetics’ make-up maestro Terry Barber weighs in on the beauty trends set to make a comeback from 21st June.

Pleasure is a place on Earth

Mugler’s Casey Cadwallader: “I keep it sensual, not overtly sexual”
The Parisian house’s creative director designs for the people, restructuring traditional methods and creating garments that work with the body – not against it, as seen in today’s pulsating SS21 collection.

Kenzo AW21: born to be wild
Felipe Oliveira Baptista’s vision for a post-pandemic future is optimistically club-ready, embracing every colour of the rainbow and capturing the exuberant spirit of Kenzō Takada’s design legacy.

Charles Jeffrey: “Nightlife is like meditation”
This season, LOVERBOY embraces the darkness of the past year in Gloom, while yearning for the dancefloors rooted in the London brand’s DNA.

CSM MA Fashion: big talent takes a leap over a crap year
The 33 designers became bedroom bound mid-term, waving a solemn goodbye to the Central Saint Martins studios (they were paying for). But it didn’t get in the way of their graduate collections – if anything, it made them even better.

Raf Simons looks back to the offbeat future
One for the die hard fans, the designer’s AW21 collection references his sci-fi past in oversized knitwear and impeccable tailoring. But his style diktats are, as ever, filtering downwards to define the next youth culture movement.

Ugo Paulon: “It should be less about me and more about the people who wear it”
Despite launching less than seven months ago, the secretive East London accessories label is making a stamp on the fashion industry, one plush bag and sandal at a time.

Masha Popova’s space oddity of seduction
The Central Saint Martins MA Fashion graduate and emerging designer recently debuted at London Fashion Week, with a technicoloured take on giving zero fucks.
