The Face Archive

To mark the 23rd anniversary of his death, editor Sheryl Garrett has reissued Bliss To Be Alive – a collection of The Face’s foremost features writer’s most loved work.

1997: They’re Number One pop stars and the architects of Amyl House. They’re Dr. Ed and Mr. Tom, and they’re ready to unleash more weird science on you. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Andrew Weatherall, 6th April 1963 – 17th February 2020.

February 1984: “The badly-dressed people are always the most interesting,” says Jean-Paul Gaultier. His zany and iconoclastic creations have managed to bemuse even the most modern tastes. Here are six of the most striking, described and photographed by the designer himself.

Following Kim Jones’ Dior tribute to the Buffalo gang icon, we revisit Blame’s archive stories for The Face.

November 1996: You are Ewan McGregor. In Trainspotting you play Britain's most famous heroin addict. You're fêted at Cannes, then signed by Hollywood. What do you do next? Star in a film in which you mostly appear naked, with words painted on your penis. Of course.