All About That Bass | Get Your Music Fix This August
Party people, you spent all of spring fetishising summer, don’t let it slip away. Maximise your August with our bass-charged hit list EASTERN ELECTRICS 1 August Before its glittery metamorphosis from rave scene staple to knock-out day festival, Eastern Electrics...
Summer 2015 | The FUTURE CLASSICS Issue
Future Classics Hey everyone, welcome to the Future Classics issue. This is also our fifth anniversary issue — it’s scary how the time has flown! So, what have we learnt over the last five years? That friends and lovers will come and go, the good ones will stick...
Northern Soul | PHOENIX Meets Cheshire-Bred Actor Tom Hughes
British actor Tom Hughes stars in a mod-inspired shoot for PHOENIX and tells Mary-Jane Wiltsher about his role in character-driven film The Incident Last month, Edinburgh’s sombre skyline once again crowned its International Film Festival, ushering in screen stars...
Fashion Story | In The Field
Live the bohemian life and embrace beatnik glamour for the festival frontline... Kaftan, MIGUELINA, £420 Bikini, VIX SWIMWEAR @ BEACH CAFE, £235 Mixed 18ct Gold Friendship Bracelets, from £115, Gold Infinite Bracelet, £195, and Feather Necklace, £270, all PAMELA LOVE...
Editor’s Column | Issue 17 | Future Classics
Time, Head Space, and Human Being... “I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them cats.” - Eckhart Tolle, author of global self-help phenomenon The Power of Now If, like me, your brain is more dog then you’ll be familiar with the constant internal chatter. Am...
3 Laptop Bags Worth Ditching Your Handbag For
Now that our MacBook Pros are an extension of our bodies, it's easy to forget that the laptop accessories market was once dominated by those identikit Curry's-own laptop bags. You know the sort - an armoured dinosaur briefcase variety that businessmen lugged around...
The Best New Beauty Brands From Across The Pond
God bless America. Your skin will. It’s rich pickings at this month’s new beauty launches across the pond, with a bevy of incredible new products arriving on our shelves from over in the US. Read on for the PHOENIX round-up of the ones you really need to know about....
Three Ways To Beautify Your Life This Weekend
Pimp your facial What do Kate Middleton, Kim Kardashian and Jennifer Aniston all have in common? They all have ridiculously youthful, glowing skin - and they all have Oxyjet facials. This extremely scientific facial uses medical-grade oxygen to push toxin-free...
Can The Museum Of London Pin Down Sherlock Holmes?
A new exhibition at the Museum of London shows why we can't get enough of Sho-Ho Pushing your way through a secret door hidden in a bookcase then making your way down a narrow corridor lit by flickering screens playing loops of the many adaptations of Sir Arthur Conan...
London Cafés Where You Can Buy Other Cool Stuff
Because over-caffeinated shopping is the best kind It’s no great secret that cafés are branching out and doing more than simply coffee, partly to broaden the scope of their appeal and prospective crowd of customers, and partly because coffee just seems to fit nicely...
The Mixology Rookie | How To Make Two Classic Cocktails
Tom Hunter pops his mixology cherry The life of a cocktail mixologist is one of inestimable glamour and sophistication. Sadly, although I work for ICEBAR LONDON, I'm in marketing, so the closest I get to said glamour and sophistication is trying to pass a round or two...
Giles Deacon’s Beautiful Baroque Extravaganza
On the 22nd October Kensington Palace will be hosting a glamorous Baroque showcase in the stunning Vanbrugh-designed Orangery to celebrate the iconic work of British designer Giles Deacon. Accompanied by the celebrated milliner Stephen Jones, the show will highlight...
A Mighty Weird Mashup: Noel Fielding’s New Comedy Tour
The surreal Mighty Boosh comedian returns for an epic UK tour… Try showing a non-Brit a sketch or two from Noel Fielding, and they'll probably respond with a deeply puzzled - even disturbed - look. From his breakthrough as eccentric zoo-keeper Vince Noir in The Mighty...
Three Ways To Beautify Your Life This Week
Cut your wash-and-dry time in half It’s not that often that something genuinely interesting happens in the world of shampooing and conditioning, but 'Flawless' - Macadamia Natural Oil’s revolutionary new one-step cleansing solution - caught my eye when it promised to...
Why Every Woman Needs The Perfume Bible
Suzy Nightingale is recruiting perfume missionaries Could you, hand on heart, give an accurate description of what constitutes a ‘Chypre’ perfume? Could you name what family your favourite fragrance belongs to? How about a definition of the difference between an Eau...
