PHOENIX Loves… Bee-Powered Beauty
Insert irritating beeauty pun here IMAGINE ISSUE 16 | Shock & Ore | Photographer: Mark Cant, Beauty Director: Lan Nguyen-Grealis First up: no puns, I promise. They're just too damn easy, and they make bee-derived beauty sound like a cutesy marketing fad when bee...
PHOENIX’s Desert Island Beauty Basics
PHOENIX's Editorial Assistant Joy Starkey gives us the run-down of her beauty basics I find that I spend an inordinate amount of time stood in Boots, erratically scrolling through various beauty blogs on my phone (with the internet working at snail's pace) trying to...
Meet Wine Expert Jane Parkinson, The Young Talent Shaking Up Her Industry
Award-winning British wine expert Jane Parkinson is giving her industry a much-needed facelift. Forget the pretentiousness and elitism you might associate with the wine trade; as one of a savvy new breed of young wine writers, Jane’s goal is to show the public that...
Happy 30th Season To Russian Fashion Week
Your pocket guide to Russia's thirtieth fashion week Galetsky SS15 (Photo by Oleg Nikishin/Getty Images for MBFW Russia) During the final week of March, all eyes will turn toward Moscow as Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia celebrates its 30th season. A mix of...
Trend Report | 70s Redux
How to wear the 70s trend without pastiche? Let’s set the scene. It’s Saturday night at Glastonbury, 2013. The Rolling Stones are on stage. The crowd is powering through on beer-and-sunshine laced energy and assorted narcotics. Everyone’s quite dirty. It’s a...
Today You Should Dress Like… A Voodoo Vision
Be inspired by our bespoke daily Polyvore outfit. Alexander McQueen's skull-print psychedelic silk scarf transforms a simple colour-block outfit. Wear it with this red Kenzo neoprene tulip skirt and Whistles cropped jersey stripe top. Keep your other accessories...
Get Ready Girls: Blue Makeup Is Back
Are you ready for the return of blue makeup? No, nor are we - but let's give it the benefit of the doubt Every season, emerging from a crowd of user-friendly trends, there is always one beauty look which catches us off-guard. For SS14, the unexpected triumph was a hue...
Today You Should Dress Like… A Coachella Princess
Be inspired by our bespoke daily Polyvore outfit... Give the Palm Springs faux-hippies a run for their money in this fabulous Topshop palm-print swimsuit with cut-out panels and open back. Miguelina's taupe crocheted shorts are the perfect cover-up, with a snap-on...
PHOENIX’s Best Things To Do Over Easter Weekend
Wondering what to do this Easter? For chocolate, concerts and creativity, step this way... Chocolate Tour of London If you’re looking for an opportunity to consume a vast amount of chocolate under the guise of sophisticated food tasting, then the Chocolate Tour of...
East End Rebel Meets West End Lady At Vinti Andrews
Vinti Andrews could teach a lot of other designers a thing or two about clashing ideas. For AW14, East End individuality meets West End sophistication. Rebellion is mixed with class in a way that achieves a perfect duality: none of their pieces would look out of place...
Turn Scent Into Stories With New Multi-Sensory Events
Ever since she was presented with a bottle of strawberry-scented perfume on her fourth birthday, a bottle which was swiftly confiscated after she poured it over herself “and possibly tasted some of it”, Odette Toilette has been fascinated by fragrance. A burgeoning...
Today You Should Dress Like… It’s Cocktail Hour
Be inspired by our bespoke daily Polyvore outfit... Make bar-propping an art form and quench your sartorial thirst with Etienne Deroeux's long blue shorts, made from super-supple leather in a softly tailored cut, topped by a primrose yellow bralet from Topshop,...
PHOENIX’s Alternative Easter Gift Guide
Our ultimate alternative Easter gift guide, and not a single chocolate egg in sight Are you bored of receiving hundreds of generic, egg-cessively (sorry) packaged chocolate eggs every Easter? Or are you just looking for an excuse to buy yourself a...
Today You Should Dress Like…A Lady Who Lunches
Be inspired by our bespoke daily Polyvore outfit. Go ultra-sophisticated today with sumptuous silk and glossy neutral hues. These Balmain matte-satin straight-leg trousers are cut to show off your waist and elongate your legs, wear them with a structured ivory twill...
Today You Should Dress Like… Liquorice Allsorts
Be inspired by our bespoke daily Polyvore outfit. Hit them hard at the start of the week with this striped silk-georgette mini dress from Saint Laurent. With its asymmetric silhouette and monochrome folds, this is dramatic, confident dressing. Daniele Michetti's...
