Getting pissed in a field is officially back for summer 2022. From moshers to drum and bass heads to rap fans, here’s what the youth will be wearing at Wireless, Latitude, Reading and Leeds and more. We told you subcultures aren’t dead!
The Belgian designer’s latest collections for Y/Project, Diesel and Jean Paul Gaultier couture have all received rapturous responses. His MO? Irreverence, irony and plenty of sex appeal.
Head to head: And just like that, the metaverse finds another way to grab our attention, with collections from some of the greatest fashion houses popping up in Zuckerberg’s Meta. But at what cost? Our sanity, perhaps.
This season’s urgent fashion from Versace, Fendi, DSquared2, JordanLuca, 1017 Alyx 9SM, JW Anderson, Moschino, Prada and many, many more...
Off the Rails: through casual tailoring and “going out” jackets, the menswear designer is making couch-to-club clothes for the modern man.
Do your worst, Kim.
Head to head: As seen on the Kardashians and, like, every influencer ever, high-rise bikinis have been hotting up beaches summer after summer. How high are you willing to go?
Never mind it being a quiet one this season: Martine Rose, Ahluwalia and Robyn Lynch still flew the flag for Great British fashion.
Panting, throbbing and a little humid, the designer’s SS23 collection shrinks proportions and winks to the sexual fantasies of London’s queer culture.
Off the Rails: Recently worn by FKA twigs, the CSM grad is as influenced by French philosophers as she is Francis Bacon. Oh, and she’d have Buddha and Angelina Jolie over for dinner.
We meet the design duo behind Sydney-based unisex brand, Song for the Mute, whose latest collection is a love letter to the colourful characters of ’90s Paris.
Head to head: the red, white and blue was unavoidable this Jubilee weekend. But with a history spanning Geri Halliwell and the far-right, can the Union Jack make a Cool Britannia return?
Underwear’s getting a makeover: out with lingerie dictated by male fantasy, in with the shops reinventing what it means to look and feel hot, one (sustainably made) pair of pants at a time.
With a finger on the pulse, and a deep adoration for the women around her, designer Supriya Lele is striding in a vibrant, nuanced lane of her own.
In their latest pairing, ’70s and ’80s silhouettes are reimagined in only the brightest of colours – ready for a summertime proper.
Year on year, the art school’s BA Fashion Communication course churns out the kind of talent that finds its way to a shiny mag cover near you. 2022 is no different.
Off the Rails: This week, we meet Dutch designer Alyssa Groeneveld, whose graduate collection scored praise on and off the pitch, challenging modern masculinity in the process.
As seen on: The celebs have been out wearing pearl necklaces, archive Versace, new Versace, trusty blazers, gimp masks and bloody massive Balenciaga boots. It’s called fashion, darling.
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.
Twenty-five years since FRUiTS began and five years since it was canned, its founder and THE FACE’s Beabadoobee cover photographer Shoichi Aoki is set to replant the seeds of the underground style bible.
Chris Tordoff, founder of @fruits_magazine_archives, handpicks the freshest images from the cult mag exclusively for THE FACE, in honour of our cover star, Beabadoobee, who was photographed by FRUiTS founder Shoichi Aoki.
From Peachy Den to Ice Studios, we trawled dozens of shops to find this summer’s hottest staple so you didn’t have to.
For SS23, Kim Jones enlisted guest designer ERL, who then dipped into the house’s ’90s archive. The result was a “creative dialogue” that bridged oceans and eras with breezy flamboyance.