Fashion Article by Jim Morrall In a world of kids that seem too cool for skool but that secretly just wanna play incestuous networking games, Henrik Vibskov’s approach is refreshing. No samples for journalists, a lot of design integrity and a frank (Danish) demeanour make for sparse but telling insights into where he’s coming from [...]
Music Article by Matthew Kinlin What if you had dedicated your life to making music only to find yourself losing your hearing? It seems hard to imagine the suffering that would arise from this situation, to continue living in a world that once was a source of joy and creativity but then had exiled you [...]
Music Article by Charlotte McManus With their unique blend of dancefloor-shaking synth-pop beats and singer Shannon Funchess’ unearthly heaven-to-hell vocals, Light Asylum are easily one of the most significant acts to emerge out of Brooklyn’s underground scene in the last ten years. Having just released their debut self-titled full-length, Flux caught up with the duo [...]
Artist Feature by Claire Ramtuhul The Many Masks of the Egungun Amidst the wealth of photographs on offer at the Saatchi Gallery’s latest exhibition, ‘Out of Focus’, four modestly sized works tempt the eye more than many of the larger pieces combined: a series of masked figures clad in wildly beautiful ceremonial robes draw substantial [...]
Fashion Article by Hannah Fleming The preceding shows at ON/OFF during Paris Fashion Week was Yang Du, Bernard Willhelm and Cunnington and Sanderson but it was Andrea Crews show that became the pièce de résistance. Led by Maroussia Rebecq, Andrea Crews describes not an individual but a creative persona, made up of an eclectic [...]
Artist Feature by Charlotte Hopson If there was an artist that could perfectly emulate our masturbatory; that is self-gratuitous, consumerist and commercial culture, then Damien Hirst would be the perfect representative. In the near quarter century, since he provocatively and uncompromisingly burst onto the art scene back in 1988 with the now infamous first exhibition [...]
This track & music video release from Wave Machines has the slightly skewed electronic pop feel that should make a reasonable assault on the charts. It has all the ingredients. It’s a touch sinister and dark in places but still has achingly catchy melodies. There is nothing stopping this hitting the pop target accept maybe [...]
The Dø singer Olivia Merilahti leaves the city and her sweetheart behind and takes to the stormy seas in the slick new video for their single “Gonna be sick”. Cue Shakespeare references, stylized fabric waves and unnatural events (all filmed in black and white), as gorgeously windswept Olivia fights back her seasickness, and sinister figures [...]
Farmers might applaud but animal lovers beware. This video for Susanne Sundfør’s new single release contains dead foxes – plus scalpels and brain surgery. So if you’re squeamish maybe give it a miss. For the rest of us though – what a majestic song – and the video does its best to back it all [...]
New Album Review – Grimes ‘Visions’ Man has always had a fraught relationship with machines. The middle of the twentieth century must have been a peculiar moment in human history as beeping robots started to invade the home. Suddenly, there was a metal box in your kitchen that could make food hot in a matter [...]
This energy ball of a song from the band Shrag spits and snarls and flares its nostrils as it heads towards you to bite you on the neck. ‘Tendons on the Night’ has all the style, swagger and attitude you need and expect for that much needed kick up the pants in these oh so [...]
We love a sense of mystery and intrigue here at Flux and Transformativa delivers (or refuses to deliver) that in spades. All we know about Transformitva is in that fact he is just one man, born in Brazil, now lives in London and that this is his first public release. None of the usual hype [...]
Fashion Article by Jim Morrall In a world of kids that seem too cool for skool but that secretly just wanna play incestuous networking games, Henrik Vibskov’s approach is refreshing. No samples for journalists, a lot of design integrity and a frank (Danish) demeanour make for sparse but telling insights into where he’s coming from [...]
Madrid’s Caja Magica is in the midst of hosting the new blue courts of the Mutua Madrid Open, and Italian sportswear maestros ellesse are in the thick of it along with French fashion house Surface to Air. ellesse is continuing its reign this year as official clothing partner to the tennis tournament, dressing the ball [...]
If you like us love both innovative independent fashion and the best emerging music, this is a collaboration for you. Boutique fashion marketplace, farfetch.com, is working with six of the world’s most prominent independent music stores and two emerging bands to bring you ‘The Playlist’, a music and fashion crossover that celebrates the ever-evolving relationship [...]
Fashion film is one of those genres that is evolving so quickly, it’s just getting hotter and hotter, fuelled by the ability to showcase films so much more easily on fashion websites and blogs. To help facilitate that, some exciting news today is that the first edition of Berlin Fashion Film Festival will be launched [...]
Fashion Article by Hannah Fleming The preceding shows at ON/OFF during Paris Fashion Week was Yang Du, Bernard Willhelm and Cunnington and Sanderson but it was Andrea Crews show that became the pièce de résistance. Led by Maroussia Rebecq, Andrea Crews describes not an individual but a creative persona, made up of an eclectic [...]
Artist Feature by Thomas Browne Courtney Love ‘And She’s Not Even Pretty’ Ever wondered what goes on inside Courtney Love’s head? Well now you can find out from Courtney herself. The first exhibition of her drawings featuring 45 works is going on show in a new exhibition at Fred Torres Collaborations in New York. [...]
Music Article by Matthew Kinlin What if you had dedicated your life to making music only to find yourself losing your hearing? It seems hard to imagine the suffering that would arise from this situation, to continue living in a world that once was a source of joy and creativity but then had exiled you [...]
Fancy yourself as a bit of a mover on the dance floor? Well if you do you should enter this rather fabulous competition from the carmaker Kia. The 8 finalists will get flown out to watch the opening game of Euro 2012 and the grand prizewinner gets a new Kia Picanto. You can see the [...]
Music Article by Charlotte McManus With their unique blend of dancefloor-shaking synth-pop beats and singer Shannon Funchess’ unearthly heaven-to-hell vocals, Light Asylum are easily one of the most significant acts to emerge out of Brooklyn’s underground scene in the last ten years. Having just released their debut self-titled full-length, Flux caught up with the duo [...]
If you like us love both innovative independent fashion and the best emerging music, this is a collaboration for you. Boutique fashion marketplace, farfetch.com, is working with six of the world’s most prominent independent music stores and two emerging bands to bring you ‘The Playlist’, a music and fashion crossover that celebrates the ever-evolving relationship [...]
Artist Feature by Thomas Browne Courtney Love ‘And She’s Not Even Pretty’ Ever wondered what goes on inside Courtney Love’s head? Well now you can find out from Courtney herself. The first exhibition of her drawings featuring 45 works is going on show in a new exhibition at Fred Torres Collaborations in New York. [...]
Artist Feature by Claire Ramtuhul The Many Masks of the Egungun Amidst the wealth of photographs on offer at the Saatchi Gallery’s latest exhibition, ‘Out of Focus’, four modestly sized works tempt the eye more than many of the larger pieces combined: a series of masked figures clad in wildly beautiful ceremonial robes draw substantial [...]
Imagine you’re walking the streets of Manchester of an evening, one eye on where you’re going and your mind on your destination. You turn a corner into the vast, cobbled Albert Square dominated by the imposing Town Hall only to be hit by an incredible sight. The façade of the iconic structure has been lit [...]
Artist Feature by Charlotte Hopson If there was an artist that could perfectly emulate our masturbatory; that is self-gratuitous, consumerist and commercial culture, then Damien Hirst would be the perfect representative. In the near quarter century, since he provocatively and uncompromisingly burst onto the art scene back in 1988 with the now infamous first exhibition [...]
Exhibition Review by Richard Unwin Taking in the full height of the cutting-edge Art Stations Foundation in Poznan, ‘Parellel Systems’ showcases three 20th Century female artists, Gertrude Goldschmidt (a.k.a Gego), Jadwiga Maziarska and Rosemarie Trockel, with the work of each displayed on separate floors of the foundation’s dedicated gallery building. The most established of the [...]
Fashion film is one of those genres that is evolving so quickly, it’s just getting hotter and hotter, fuelled by the ability to showcase films so much more easily on fashion websites and blogs. To help facilitate that, some exciting news today is that the first edition of Berlin Fashion Film Festival will be launched [...]
Anyone watching events unfolding in Syria will no doubt share the same sense of frustration and helplessness that I myself feel as the images are beamed into our living rooms. The brutality of the regime is truly breathtaking. The situation is grave and changing on a daily basis. Pity then the organisers of Reel Syria [...]
New Film Review by Sophia Satchell Baeza In This Must Be the Place, Paolo Sorrentino has managed to make the premise – a Nazi-hunting road movie through the American desert with Robert Smith – infinitely more exciting than the reality. Cheyenne (Sean Penn) is an ageing rock star dressed up like Robert Smith from The [...]
Closing Night Gala: Penderecki and Greenwood Providing a crashing crescendo to the end of the UKs 10th Kinoteka Polish Film Festival, London legendary composer Krzysztof Penderecki will come together with Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood for a special concert at London’s Barbican Hall. The collaboration revises a musical meeting first staged in Poland in 2011, with a [...]
The close of this week marks just the beginning of a 16-day, Spanish and Latin American film festival brought to you by Manchester’s international centre for contemporary, visual arts and independent film, better known as Cornerhouse. The festival will be dragging a little of those southerly rays, kicking and screaming, to blustery Blighty for the [...]
Beauty Article by Fiona Shaw This is a wonderfully invigorating blast of Spring from the Tom Ford Private Blend collection. They never seem to put a foot wrong and this fragrance is another hit, with us. Neroli Portofino Eau Fraiche Body Splash is a lighter version of the best selling fragrance from Tom Ford’s Private [...]
Beauty Article by Fiona Shaw As a tea lover and believer in the benefits of tea be it black, green or white and a user of Origins products I was very keen to try out this new tinted moisturiser, part of their ‘A Perfect World’ range. It contains antioxidant-rich Silver Tip White Tea – purported to [...]
Beauty Article by Fiona Shaw Influential makeup artist and Estée Lauder Creative Director Tom Pecheux inspires a groundbreaking new mascara based on his own backstage techniques and own personal philosophy. To put it in his own words: “My Favourite woman is a woman who looks like herself at her best. I love eyes that are made [...]
Beauty Article by Fiona Shaw ‘In the freshness of dawn and the softness of sunset.’ Spring skies can take your breath away especially at daybreak and nightfall. Those dramatic sunrises and sunsets are the inspiration for Chanel’s latest collection, Spring Harmony. Peter Philip, Creative Director of Chanel Make-Up has transformed these colours into make-up form [...]
Perfume Launch Feature A rock n roll attitude is infused within this latest perfume launch from Givenchy. Very Irrésistible Electric Rose, orchestrated by Parfums Givenchy, walks a fine line between the heady world of high fashion and the wilder side of rock fuelled abandon. To celebrate the launch Liv Tyler, the fragrance’s muse, takes to [...]
Artist Feature by Thomas Browne Courtney Love ‘And She’s Not Even Pretty’ Ever wondered what goes on inside Courtney Love’s head? Well now you can find out from Courtney herself. The first exhibition of her drawings featuring 45 works is going on show in a new exhibition at Fred Torres Collaborations in New York. [...]
Fashion Article by Jim Morrall In a world of kids that seem too cool for skool but that secretly just wanna play incestuous networking games, Henrik Vibskov’s approach is refreshing. No samples for journalists, a lot of design integrity and a frank (Danish) demeanour make for sparse but telling insights into where he’s coming from [...]
Music Article by Matthew Kinlin What if you had dedicated your life to making music only to find yourself losing your hearing? It seems hard to imagine the suffering that would arise from this situation, to continue living in a world that once was a source of joy and creativity but then had exiled you [...]
Fancy yourself as a bit of a mover on the dance floor? Well if you do you should enter this rather fabulous competition from the carmaker Kia. The 8 finalists will get flown out to watch the opening game of Euro 2012 and the grand prizewinner gets a new Kia Picanto. You can see the [...]
Music Article by Tom Hesketh Carling Zest captures the Sound of Summer with DJ Food, Jaguar Skills and DJ Yoda plus win a rather special fully paid trip to this year’s V Festival How do you capture the sound of a British Summer? The sound of bumble bees a buzzing, lapping seaside waves, the chime [...]
New Album Review by Matthew Kinlin There was likely to be a few raised eyebrows when it was announced that the new release for underground Los Angeles label 100% Silk would be from Fort Romeau – the alias of UK producer Mike Norris, who is best known as the keyboardist for pop group La Roux. [...]
For all you grown ups out there, there is a music festival going on in Cognac, France in July this year that you might just be interested in. The Blues Passions festival, that takes place in the famous French town each year, will be supported by the most famous French Cognac, Hennessy, for an amazing [...]
Creative Photography Showcase on Romain Lienhardt Born in St-Tropez in 1972 Romain Lienhardt was drawn to photography from an early age. This journey continued during his high-school years when he interned as a set electrician at the ‘Société Française de Production’ in Paris. After achieving an associate degree in Arts, he started his career as [...]
We all have fond memories of watching Star Wars for the first time. Everything about the film seemed new and exciting. Even the opening credits broke with convention as the words slowly disappeared off into space. Well to celebrate the launch of a rather special new Kinect Star Wars game, an app has been created [...]
Culture Article by Freddie Reynolds Much of what I knew about Paris came from friends and family. They told me it was lovely; ‘Paris in the springtime’, they’d say, ‘how lovely’. They also told me it was expensive – it was – and that I must get a Vélib’ – I didn’t – and that I [...]
Grit – Fantastical Beauty Photography: My hair is my pride and joy. I wear it like a mane. Sometimes I like to wrap it round myself so it c... Grimes – Being Inhuman – New Album Review: New Album Review - Grimes 'Visions'
Man has always had a fraught relationship with machines. The mi... 
Dell gets the look with the XPS 15z laptop: If you’re a dedicated PC user, but love the Apple aesthetic, the DELL XPS 15z could well be the mach... 
Dior Illustrated by Rene Gruau: A celebration of the renowned illustrator René Gruau (1909-2004), who created some of the most iconi... 
Swift dark dead: What happens when you mix a bit of old school goth with some slick new wave? Here are some great pie... 
Le Crazy Horse – London Burlesque Supper Club: London is currently enjoying a wave of Parisian culture; we lived in Breton tops, dined solely on ma... 
Why doesn’t Tyra & Béyonce call me back? Fashion Shoot: Waiting for that telephone to ring. All glammed up with no place to go. Got myself all sexy and sass... 
The Road – Post Apocalyptic Fashion Shoot: This is a tale that chimes with our times. Leonardo V has created The Road, a fashion shoot influenc... 
White Cube Hong Kong launches with Gilbert and George: The growing internationalisation of art and the arts industry takes another stride forward with the ... Manchester’s Town Hall turned into 80′s Arcade Game – Urban Art Feature: Imagine you’re walking the streets of Manchester of an evening, one eye on where you’re going and yo... 
Our favourite new sneakers from fashion to sportsfield!Romain Lienhardt – Creative Photography Showcase: Creative Photography Showcase on Romain Lienhardt
Born in St-Tropez in 1972 Romain Lienhardt was dr... Why doesn’t Tyra & Béyonce call me back? Fashion Shoot: Waiting for that telephone to ring. All glammed up with no place to go. Got myself all sexy and sass... 
Jeremy Deller – Joy in People – London Art Exhibition: Jeremy Deller is an artist. He won the Turner prize, after all. But he is also much, much more than ... 
The Contender – Thai Kick Boxing Fashion Shoot: You can feel the punches and see the grimaces as our contender takes to the ring. This Thai Kick Box... 
Chen Man – Fashion Photography Exhibition: Chen Man is one of the leading photographers of her generation. For a decade now she has led the way... ellesse x Surface to Air in the blue in Madrid: Madrid’s Caja Magica is in the midst of hosting the new blue courts of the Mutua Madrid Open, and It... 
Fila lets Flux loose in their sports fashion archive: To celebrate 100 years of Fila, we get to root around the Italian sports fashion brand's archive - w... Manchester’s Town Hall turned into 80′s Arcade Game – Urban Art Feature: Imagine you’re walking the streets of Manchester of an evening, one eye on where you’re going and yo... 
Diesel Loverdose – Eau de Parfum launch:
Seduction with a dark little twist is the name of the game for Diesel’s new fragrance. Provocative... 
Life on board the Titanic – The Photos of Father Browne: The footage of the dramatic sinking of the Costa Concordia and the loss of life brings mental images... 