Grooming Gets A Grown-Up Spin With Refinery
It’s probably fair to say that when is comes to the grown-up, more luxurious end of the grooming market, men are often left neglected. So for those gentlemen who outgrew the olfactory offerings of the Lynx collection more than a while ago, may we suggest Refinery....
Dead Man’s Patterns | PHOENIX Meets Artist Hormazd Narielwalla
PHOENIX's assistant editor Mary-Jane Wiltsher gets a glimpse of acclaimed artist Hormazd Narielwalla's cutting-strewn world to talk cubism, anatomy in art, and childhood memories of India... Crafting our GODS & MONSTERS issue spurred questions of mortality,...
The Radiology-Inspired Knitwear Loved By Women In Tech
When radiography met knitwear... Tonight, London's Hospital Club will host the launch of a new womenswear collection, designed and manufactured in the UK. Great, but not exactly extraordinary. What is extraordinary is the fact that this particular line, which has...
Autumn 2014 | The GODS & MONSTERS Issue
The GODS & MONSTERS Issue In the years since PHOENIX was created, born out of fire and brimstone if you will, it’s the production of this - the Gods & Monsters issue - that has had the most profound effect upon me. In some ways it’s encouraging that in the age...
God Or Monster: Who Will You Be?
The moment has come - Gods & Monsters (AKA PHOENIX's autumn issue) has been unleashed on the world. With Dolce & Gabbana's fairytale-inspired silhouettes taking us back to the thrills and fears of our childhood, and Givenchy instilling the fear of God in...
Daily Stylist | Sunny Side Up
Be inspired by our bespoke daily Polyvore outfit January: it doesn't have to be all doom and gloom. Get your bright-on with turquoise hues and citrus accents - as spotted on this pair of Isabel Marant drop earrings and Charles Philip's two-tone pointy flats. Topshop's...
Ones To Watch | Cesar Perin’s British Male Models For 2014
With the dust fully settled after the whirlwind of LC:M, and a flock of male models come and gone, Cesar Perin, Unsigned MGMT scout and judge on ITV's The Complete Package, gives his pick of the British male models to watch in 2014. The Rockall Brothers Haydn and...
Fashion News | BFC Fashion Forward winners announced
Today the British Fashion Council has announced that J. JS Lee, Nasir Mazhar and Sophia Webster are the latest womenswear designers to have been awarded the prestigious Fashion Forward prize. J JS Lee SS14 The scheme, which was established in 2009, seeks to encourage...
Film | What to watch in 2014
Sure, Netflix is wonderful; you get to wear your unicorn onesie, simultaneously read a magazine and pop to the loo (God damn that wholesome January water intake) whenever you wish. But doesn't a tiny part of you long for the immersion of watching a box-fresh...
TV | Girls Season Three
As Girls enters its third season, Harriet Baker examines why Lena Dunham's bold, brilliant series continues to define her generation It feels like a very long time since we caught up with Hannah, Marnie, Shoshannah and Jessa, the haphazard twenty-somethings on...
News | VIN + OMI return to the capital for London Fashion Week AW14
After meeting in the UK and launching Creative London in 2004, design duo VIN + OMI went off to work in the US. Now, this fashion week, they’re coming back with their first London show in 10 years. Speaking exclusively to PHOENIX, Omi talks of the pair’s...
The Interview | Fam Irvoll for Topshop
Don't be fooled by the cool ice-cream shades and playful shapes of Fam Irvoll's SS14 range. There's a macabre undercurrent running through it, with floral prints counterbalanced by dead insects and mice motifs, reflected in its tongue-in-cheek title: Call the...
London Collections: Men AW14 | Superdry
Within the echoing halls of the Old Sorting Office, guests sipped on cocktails handed out by gleaming models lined up at the door, while dance music throbbed through the speakers and campaigns shots were projected onto the walls. And this was just the pre-show waiting...
London Collections: Men AW14 | YMC
In the cavernous expanse of the Old Sorting Office, YMC’s AW14 collection juxtaposes casual, sporty pieces with sharp, sartorial design. This look is epitomised by the preppy-meets-street combination of a sweater draped over the shoulders of a tailored tracksuit. A...
London Collections: Men AW14 | Christopher Shannon
It was a brooding melancholy that pervaded Christopher Shannon’s daring and innovative Autumn Winter 2014 show, held at the blacked-out Sorting Office. As the models stalked the runway in Adidas trainers with tendrils of wet hair plastered to their face, it became...
