‘Beat The Fashionistas For Under £5’: Charity Shopping With Louise Croft
With London Fashion Week only three weeks away, the itch for a wardrobe refresh may well have already set in. If you're still skint from Christmas, it can be tempting to trawl through the bog-end of the January sales, but for serious New Year bargains, this is the...
SWEAT | The New Boundary-Pushing Band You Need To Know
At PHOENIX, we’re not shy of putting ourselves on a pedestal and draping ‘pretty darn good talent scouts’ medals around our necks. With that in mind, we'd like to introduce you to the most enigmatic live gig contenders of 2016, a new era of raw, dark, rock 'n'...
Editor’s Letter | The Manual January Issue
As the New Year lands, the editor of our new monthly digital magazine The Manual muses on the art of time - and the joy of a trashy box-set Is long-form television drama the true art form of our times? Our cover star Aisling Loftus certainly thinks so. In her...
Interview | Hip Hop Star Machine Gun Kelly Walks For Joshua Kane Bespoke
PHOENIX sits down with fledgling Hollywood actor and Billboard’s Number One Hip-Hop Artist of 2015, Machine Gun Kelly, to chat London, elevator phobia, and closing Joshua Kane’s LC:M AW16 show, 'Houndsditch', which saw a selection of celebrated musicians known for...
How To Nail Gift Buying For Gourmands This Christmas
Don we now our elasticated apparel. Yes, it's time for opulent, goose fat basted, Henry VIII-style feasting. And here's some last minute gift inspiration to help please those pesky foodies lurking on your to-buy-for list... Ginger Pig Meat Book, £25 Christmas means...
Inventing Impressionism | The Activist Behind The Art
Julie Reid 'meets' the man who changed art forever Photograph of Paul Durand-Ruel in his gallery, taken by Dornac, about 1910 © Archives Durand-Ruel © Durand-Ruel & Cie In some respects Impressionism has become something of a cliché, with its ubiquitous Monet...
SS15 Trend Report | Suede Two Ways
Suede: one of the many 70s throwbacks set to infiltrate our wardrobes this summer. Mottled and mattified, this retro fabric is loaded with nostalgia - recalling love-worn festival jackets, the toughness of cowboy boot leather and the satisfying fade of a...
Meet The Cocktail Lovers Out To Make You Shake
Introducing the hot new startup putting the my in Mai Tai Mark Jennings of cocktail subscription service Shaken Mad Men has a lot to answer for: glamourising smoking, glamourising misogyny, glamourising marketing, glamourising mental breakdown... but, possibly more...
Marlene Dumas | The Image As Burden
Julie Reid finds Marlene Dumas light on hope, heavy on beauty Marlene Dumas, The Image as Burden 1993 © Marlene Dumas. Photo: Peter Cox Once labeled ‘the world’s most interesting figure painter’, Marlene Dumas (b.1953) is famous (although not quite as famous as she...
Doing It For The Boys | Lee Marsh Collaborates With Hainsworth Textile Mill
With July heralding the inaugural New York Fashion Week: Men's, now is clearly the time to do it for the boys, and in good ol' Blighty it's Savile Row tailor Lee Marsh leading the way with an exciting new collaboration. For AW15 the London School of Fashion...
How To Turn Tequila Into A Class Act
ICEBAR's Tom Hunter shows us how to get to grips with the Mexican stuff Let’s talk tequila. More specifically, let’s talk about a few of the most common misconceptions that surround this most excellent yet least well exploited of drinks, especially when it comes to...
LFW AW15 | Backstage At Ashish
Photography: Silje Skarra
LFW AW15 | Day 4 |London Fashion Week’s Emerging Talent
I was back over at Fashion Scout for the final day of LFW and I had a packed schedule of shows that tied together the overarching themes from the weekend - with an additional hit of textures and prints. Lulu Liu was the first stop of the day, and she showed...
LFW AW15 | Backstage At Huishan Zhang
Photography: Fraser Rigg
