Fashion

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.

Editor Matthew Whitehouse on THE FACE cover stars Jack Grealish, Tems, Beabadoobee, and the ecstasy of fandom.

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.

As Manchester City win a fourth Premier League title in five years, we meet the talismanic midfielder with the world at his feet, a Gucci ambassadorship and the kind of megawatt charm that’ll burn through English football for the next decade.