Washbag Refresh | Deputy Editor’s Picks
Typically, high summer spells clouds of glitter and palms muddied by fake tan. But in the spirit of our spring issue, which offers an idiot-proof guide to streamlining your wardrobe and champions multi-purpose beauty formulas, this season I’m downsizing my washbag. So...
5 Of The Best…Beauty Boxes
Let’s be honest - we all have a considerable amount of neglected beauty products hiding around our homes; those miracle game-changers that fell sadly short of the mark, and those must-have hues that didn’t suit our skin. Luckily, such ill-informed commitment may soon...
Style Sketchbook: Spring
WOMEN'S Embrace that 70s look with flowing layers, patchwork denim and jumpsuits. Why not bring out the spots with a splash of polka dot? SHEER LAYERS Style note: You’d be forgiven for mistaking this layering trend for just another strand of this season’s obsession...
audiosplitter x PHOENIX | Your Essential ‘Sound Of Ibiza’ Playlist
The Ibiza opening parties are almost upon us; prepare yourself for heat and hedonism with this tidy little playlist made especially for PHOENIX by ace new music streaming service audiosplitter. Unlike its competitors, audiosplitter collates various music platforms...
New Beauty | Noer Organics Atelier
Wildcrafted skincare that delivers Red rose petals, elderflower, vanilla bean, French green clay…the ingredient lists on Singapore’s blossoming new skincare brand read like poetry. However, while such mystical concoctions may sound like the stuff of dreams, these...
How To Write A Novel In Fifteen Years
Still trying to get that award-winning story on the page? Debut author Daniel Mokades offers aspiring authors a word of advice. Fifteen years ago I decided to write a novel. It was a fantasy novel and it was going to be amazing. I sat down and eked out twenty pages of...
Three Ways To Beautify Your Life This Week
You wait all winter for summer to come along, and then by mid-August, you're wishing it away so you can wear your Ghost World-inspired kilt, plummy lip stain and shiny patent Mary Janes. Fear not, PHOENIX is here to put you bang back in the moment (how very...
Lush Spa | Synaesthesia
There aren't many occasions where I have travelled to the Kings Road, stripped off to my knickers and been wafted all over with fragrant smoke; in fact I can count the number of times I've done this on one finger. Thankfully for members of the public and my dignity, I...
Fix Up, Look Sharp | 5 Cutting Edge Exhibitions to Catch While You Still Can
Visual tastemakers have one thing in common: they know how to get our attention. By placing the everyday in the brighter context of the art world, fashion designers, artists and filmmakers highlight the sublime character of the things we so frequently perceive to be...
3 Essential August Cocktails
In our new series, ICEBAR'S Tom Hunter offers three drinks perfect for this sunshine-and-showers month Summer may have proved to be something of a mixed affair this year, with dark and stormy days galore punctuating our brief encounters with the sun, but one thing the...
Beauty Story | WO (MAN)
Androgyny gets a painterly edge in a Holi Colours burst of neon pink, emergency yellow and fiery tomato... Eyes: MAC Paint Pot in Ground Work, YSL Mascara Contour: MAC Paint Pot in Quite Natural, Laura Mercier Mineral Bronzer 02 Lips: MAC Snob and LipMix Beige Eyes:...
House Of Vans | London’s New Eclectic Underground Space
Panoptic, interactive experiences and cross-disciplinary events in unlikely places are all the rage. Whether the event in question entails attending a 3D film premiere in a jacuzzi or enjoying gourmet street food in a power station, it's exciting to see cultural...
Dalston Anatomy | Lorenzo Vitturi at The Photographer’s Gallery
Artists, especially photographers are an insightful bunch. They spend the best part of their time carefully moulding visual interventions and peddling our most colourful fantasies and banal realities back to us with edifying flair. If photography has taught us...
Art, Life and Vision | A Glimpse of Virginia Woolf
The Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision exhibition promises to explore the writer as a "novelist, intellectual, campaigner and public figure” with the help of over 140 items, including family photographs, private letters and paintings by her literary contemporaries....
Fashion Story | The Final Curtsey
Debutante balls conjure grainy monochrome images of aristos in frothy meringues, ostrich feathers and pearls, ready for their eligible bachelors. Think Stephen Polikoff’s films A Real Summer and Capturing Mary, both brilliant studies of the social and cultural changes...
