Cultural Diary | 5 Things To Do In London This Week
Douglas Dunn rounds up the best things to do in the capital this week... MONDAY 10 AUGUST | Gallery Carsten Höller: Decision Beat the Monday slump with Carsten Höller: Decision at the Hayward Gallery, an immersive exhibition exploring the idea of decision making. To...
Diana Vickers and George Craig star in the Joshua Kane AW15 campaign
Luxury tailoring brand Joshua Kane has tapped Diana Vickers and beau George Craig (lead singer of One Night Only) for its Autumn Winter 2015 advertising campaign. Shot by Bart Pajak, monochrome moodiness and mirrored sunglasses create a futuristic look from an...
How Silicon Valley Became Hollywood’s Scariest Villain
As new film Inside Out shows San Francisco as a very scary place, Greg Taylor explores Hollywood's deeply ambiguous relationship with the tech industry... The Golden Gate Bridge gets totalled in Rise of the Planet of the Apes In 1985’s Back to the Future II irritating...
Is This Shoreditch Pop-Up The Future Of Shopping?
In a city crowded with pop-ups, this Shoreditch gem has got it just right 1.N.1 You'd think we'd have reached peak pop-up. In the late 90s, pop-ups were genuinely word of mouth affairs, in which underground artists and creative collectives staged temporary takeovers...
Where Beauty Meets Science | NIOD
PHOENIX discovers how NIOD became the most intelligent beauty brand on the planet... Whichever beauty product seriously changed the game for you this year, chances are that Deciem is the secret superbrand behind it. They gave us Grow Gorgeous, hailed as a miracle cure...
Flekd’s First EP Heralds A Dreamy New Jazz-Folk Sound
Flekd - Flekd EP Jazz / Folk Jane South - flute and accordion Moss Freed - guitar Rebecca Nash - piano Rob Paterson - double bass Matt Fisher - drums and percussion ★★★★★ After spending years training, playing and recording as accomplished musicians and...
3 Ways To Beautify Your Life This Week
Get a taste of Thailand in Covent Garden What’s the nicest-smelling room you’ve ever walked into? I can now confirm mine was leaving a rainy Shelton Street and entering the toasty warm of the Thai Square Day Spa in Covent Garden. I’m a sucker for a scent, and I’ve no...
5 Of The Best: Nude Beauty Palettes
Streamline your routine with Phoenix’s edit of the very best nude shadow palettes. As the perfect antidote to those intimidating rainbow hues on the catwalk, you can't go wrong with a nude beauty look. So we reckon it’s a good idea to acquaint yourself with the...
Ayer’s Furious Film Hits Hard But Signifies Little
Fury, 15, 134 mins Director: David Ayer Stars: Brad Pitt, Logan Lerman, Shia LaBeouf, Michael Peña, Jon Bernthal, Jason Isaacs ✮✮✮☆☆ You might feel like you've seen Fury before. A rag-tag group of grizzled grunts led by a charismatic and haunted officer; an innocent...
New Beauty: Omorovicza Blue Diamond Collection
Is this diamond-fuelled skincare collection the ultimate in luxury beauty? In creating their cult line of skincare creations, Stephen and Margaret de Heinrich of Omorovicza work with a Hungarian dermatology laboratory which previously won a Nobel Prize. If that isn’t...
Brook’s Solo Show Puts The Beauty Back Into Air Travel
A new photography collection puts our heads in the clouds I'm staring through the cream plastic frame of an aeroplane window, struck by afresh the sheer wonder of clouds. Muscular and moody, they have momentarily parted to let one of those divine shafts of light cut...
Increase Your Style IQ With The Philosopher’s Jumper
All hail the ultimate LBJ What is the perfect item of clothing for the deep-thinker who doesn't want to compromise substance for style - or vice-versa? According to Bella Freud, it's a clean, classic black jumper. Tasked to create a garment for the thinking man or...
Three Ways to Beautify Your Life This Week
Treat yourself to a seriously indulgent facial It’s probably more likely that you’ve been to The Dorchester for tea, rather than a spa trip, but you should definitely give it a go. Walking into the beautifully decorated cream space is like being wrapped in a thick,...
9 Stress-Busting Apps For Busy Londoners
Stress is so last season Yeah, yeah, so we're all stressed. All the time. Most of us use the verb as a catch-all to describe busy but incredibly privileged twenty-first century life. Moaners aside, however stress is an actual medical condition that has lasting effects...
My Lifelong Love Affair With Dancehall
DJ Daniel Mokades explains why he has made the best dancehall mix in the world I was fourteen when I heard Heat by General Levy. My older brother bought his album, Wickeder General, and played it to death over the summer. He and our next-door neighbour had gotten into...
