Federico Fellini’s 8 1/2 – Restored back to its full cinematic glory
Anno Domini (in the year of our Lord) 2003, the much anticipated teaser trailer for Kill Bill announced to the beat of that ominous score, “The fourth film by Quentin Tarantino.” Four decades earlier Tarantino’s attempt to keep a tally of his films was foreshadowed by...
The Rejina Pyo label – Effortless style for powerful women
Rejina Pyo, is the woman behind the eponymous label, senior womenswear consulting designer for Christopher Raeburn and ex-designer at Roksanda Ilincic. And since graduating MA fashion design at Central Saint Martins in 2011, you could add a few more awards and...
Sports Fashion Shoot – Track Star or Fashion Queen?
I Can't Drop Out; it's all about sports fashion and a desperate athletic style by stylist Tomohiro Hanada in this autumn winter Sports Fashion Shoot. Shot by photographer Takanorio, it's vintage seventies sports classics versus elegant contrast prints. The result is a...
Interview with Jordan Vogt-Roberts Director of Kings of Summer
Following the release of The Kings of Summer on Blu-ray and DVD last month, FLUX Magazine had the privilege of speaking with the film’s director Jordan Vogt-Roberts. In a conversation full of humorous and honest reflections, Vogt-Roberts shared with us his thoughts on...
The Allure of Chanel – new edition with images by Karl Lagerfeld
Mysterious, oblique fashion icon of the twentieth century, Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel designed her own story as creatively as she designed her clothes. And this wonderful book by her friend and contemporary, Paul Morand, tells the tale in Coco Chanel’s very own...
The Broken Circle Breakdown – Felix Van Groeningen interviewed
The Broken Circle Breakdown is a brickbat of wit, forlorn and veritable passion - one that works. The conceit, if there is any, is the wish that things could have been different. Here we interview director, Felix Van Groeningen about irrationality, love, and the...
Outsider: Youth on the Margin – Cult photography books at LN-CC
Youthful dystopia is a subject revered in music and film. From pontificating punks to 1960 bikers, from James Dean in ‘Rebel Without a Cause’ to Larry Clark’s ‘Kids’, from Nirvana to Boy Bands on the brink, youth on the fringes is a never ending source of fascination....
Tonbruket’s latest album Nubium Swimtrip – Channelling the Dark Side
Virtuoso Swedish musicians Tonbruket move through the ages on their genre-breaking instrumental new album Nubium Swimtrip. Recorded over a three-day period at Abbey Road Studios, Tonbruket attempt to capture the sonic innovations and ambitions of such artists as The...
S’more Than Flesh & Buns – Restaurant Review
Flesh & Buns’ East Asian cuisine is as painfully trendy as the name suggests. When a good friend invited me to dine there for her birthday, I was clueless enough to turn my nose up. Buns, appetising perhaps; flesh, not so much. However I was soon enlightened....
POP Montréal 2013 – Unhurried, expansive and dripping with possibility.
Despite the learned advice of Tourisme Montreal’s Hugo Leclerc, the loveliest tour guide you could ever need, I failed at Montréal public transport, spending 4 consecutive nights taking the same epic walk of shame from Église POP - an uptown top ranking Church...
A Handful of Dollars from Pelican Avenue – AW13/14 collection
"WHY CHANGE AT ALL, A HANDFUL OF DOLLARS CAN BRING RELIEF ON YOUR WAY HOME. IT IS ALL BUT A DREAM, SO BETTER BE PREPARED. WE ARE NOT GOING TO WAIT ANY LONGER, JOHN. FIRST COME FIRST SERVE." So says Pelican Avenue on their AW13/14 collection. The label's philosophy is...
The Wicker Man rereleased – Interview with Director Robin Hardy
To mark the 40th Anniversary of one of the iconic British films, The Wicker Man, FLUX Magazine had the opportunity or rather we should say privilege to speak with director Robin Hardy. This new reissue by Studio Canal is the cut that most closely resembles Hardy’s...
Sebastien Tellier – L’Amour Naissant – Latest Single and enigmatic new video
French music maestro Sebastien Tellier is back with yet another new album to be released shortly. The single L’Amour Naissant is hopefully a nice taster of the rest of the album. This for me is Tellier on top form. He never belts it out, his voice just flows...
Nigeria Monarchs: Photography of Nigerian Kings & Queens by George Osodi
George Osodi’s series of portraits of Nigerian monarchs summons up many thoughts and emotions. How do these Kings and Queens co-exist with the democratic but often troubled Nigerian government? How do their subjects, the people themselves now view these rulers? The...
Hotel Texas An Art Exhibition for the President and Mrs John F. Kennedy
There are many iconic images of the 22nd of November,1963, the day President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Amid all the poignant pictures the relevance of a small collection of artwork by Picasso, Franz Kline, Thomas Eakins, van Gogh and Charles Marion...