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...
Brand Profile | Madame La La
Skincare meets bronzing: welcome to the new generation of tanning. Skin looking a little drab after a hectic month of festivities? Panic not, let our latest brand-to-know introduce you to the next big thing in fake tanning. New American/Brit brand Madame La La offers...
Digital | New Horizons
Paul Squires, the founder of digital arts mecca imperica.com, invites PHOENIX readers to his latest mashup of tech and creativity Paul Squires Many universities, I'm delighted to discover, still have Schools of Humanities. It's “the humanities” that cover so many...
Daily Stylist | Here Comes Trouble
Be inspired by our bespoke daily Polyvore outfit. This fluffy pale pink and black stripe jumper from high street stalwart River Island is perfect for cold winter days. Smarten it up for work with a pair of black suit trousers from another bargainista's favourite,...
Daily Stylist | A Work of Art
Be inspired by our bespoke daily Polyvore outfit. Honor's beautiful watercolour-print bustier top offers the structured sex-appeal of a corset with an elegant and feminine veneer. Dress it down with these Topshop vintage boyfriend jeans and a pair of Church's studded...
Photography | Bailey’s Stardust
Bailey sprinkles some stardust over the dank winter months with this important retrospective Kate Moss, 2013 With tousled mane, Kate Moss guards the entrance to David Bailey’s Stardust, newly opened at the National Portrait Gallery. Her gaze is both sultry and defiant...
Valentine’s Day | How To Do It Right
No, stop it. Stop bitching. Valentine's Day is undoubtedly a meaningless, cynical, over-commercialised anxiety-fest designed to shame singles, destroy relationships, and put a good proportion of your hard-earned dollar into the sweaty palms of soulless businessmen,...
Art | Howard Tangye
A sleek new exhibition, Casting the Line, has opened on Hanover Street, showcasing the drawings of Howard Tangye, many taken from his monograph of 2013, ‘Within’. Tangye, head of BA Womenswear Design at Central Saint Martins, has tutored John Galliano, Christopher...
Daily Stylist | Join The Dots
Be inspired by our bespoke daily Polyvore outfit. This semi-sheer Burberry Prorsum polka-dot linen shirt looks fabulous paired with dark navy leather leggings from Matches' in-house label Freda. A straight-cut textured Reiss coat adds a tailored, slightly masculine...
Book | The News: A User’s Manual
★★★★☆ Can Alain de Botton's latest book helps us to develop healthier news-reading habits? It's Sunday morning, and in an uninspiring lecture hall somewhere in the boondocks of Bloomsbury, bestselling popular philosopher Alain de Botton is teaching us how to read a...
Art | Fashion & Gardens
Fashion & Gardens analyses the way we deck out our gardens as we do our bodies... “Gardens are a space where everything interconnects”, mused Christopher Woodward, standing with some of fashion’s finest names (Christopher Kane, Philip Tracey, Alexandra Shulman and...
