The Face

The story of how two teen girls came to dominate the video-sharing app by dancing the Renegade. “I got Dunkin’ lip balms to add to my collection of Dunkin’ stuff!” 15-year-old Charli D’Amelio eagerly chirps into her mum’s iPhone camera. She holds up a small package of doughnut-flavoured balms. Charli then turns to her own iPhone. It is balanced on a mantlepiece, level with her smiley eyes and five-foot-three and-a-quarter inch frame. She backs up and begins to throw her fists in relative silence...

Inspired by single motherhood, the Jamaican dancehall artist is now cracking the international market with her inclusive, sexy anthems. “Sleeping policemen, man!” Shenseea is in London on a frost-bitten morning, and she’s frustrated by our ​“snail pace” driving and the capital’s abundance of speed bumps. The Kingston, Jamaica-hailing dancehall artist is here for a heavy press run (“15 interviews the other day,” she sighs) and a show that saw her addressing a packed-out Brixton Academy in a floor-length leather trench coat...

The mala junta crew reveal how their intimate party became the best new Queer rave in town. “If there's something that people are good at in Berlin, it's dancing and partying,” says Joachim palsby, aka DJ tool...

One is a non-binary musician, songwriter and performer, the other is a boundary-pushing filmmaker working in male-dominated industry. Together they’re making creative history. Musician Lawrence Rothman fell in love with world-renowned filmmaker and photographer Floria Sigismondi years before they met, when Rothman discovered Sigismondi’s first photo book, Redemption, at a bookstore in St. Louis, Missouri. Rothman was a teenager at the time. ​“It was one thing to be watching MTV in my small suburban...

The Ye-affiliated musician inspired by love, drugs and her mental health struggles. Last night, Danielle Balbuena was breaking the rules. At the debut show of her European tour, she was caught sneaking a fan in through the back door. Ahead of the gig in Dublin, the rapper-singer better known as 070 Shake tweeted that anyone without a ticket would be let in by her ​“people”. ​“We got in trouble for that too,” she flashes a wicked but warm smile. ​“He got kicked out, but he got back in.” The tour is...

His moody tune Cradles is the second biggest hit on TikTok, and he's set to transcend his 15 second of fame. If you’ve been on TikTok, chances are you’ve heard Sub Urban’s catchy track Cradles. Or rather, that you’ve seen it, thanks to the droves of teens who use a glockenspiel-twinged snippet of the beat to soundtrack their Fornite-inspired dance challenges. Subsequently, around one billion videos have been made with the song and it’s now the second biggest track on the addictive social network...

Ezra Furman’s guide to soundtracking the most pulsing, thrusting, throbbing show on television, aka Sex Education. When the producers of streaming’s buzziest drama briefed their musician of choice, they only went and referenced one of the greatest soundtrack commissions of all time, from a towering highpoint of Sixties cinema. “We want you to be the Simon & Garfunkel to our The Graduate,” Netflix told Ezra Furman.  No pressure, then. In our interview Furman was far too modest to claim that any of...

Restaurants still have the patriotically named offering on their menus. We asked five owners to explain why. Back in 2003, France refused to support the US in their invasion of Iraq. This made US officials extremely unhappy with France...

Review: Fans of paperback teen fiction, Fall Out Boy and Conor Oberst will recognise the cloying tenor that characterises much of Weathering With You. Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars Makoto Shinkai, the writer, director, and illustrator behind Your Name, the highest-grossing anime film of all time, has a knack for expressing the aspirations of those edging into adolescence: the yearning for freedom, excitement and love. He paints innocent worlds, where the naive hopefulness, verve and empathy of childhood trumps all...

One of the world’s most common cosmetic interventions is growing in popularity among younger people – so what does a lifetime of Botox really look like? Botox is one of the world’s most recognised cosmetic drug brands (see 4.8million #Botox posts on Instagram), and it’s soaring amongst millennials.  Latest research from the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) found requests from 19 – 34 year olds for Botox and filler rose by 41% between 2011 and 2015. In the US – where Botox...

Less peacocking, more stolen moments: photographer Marc-Henri Ngandu captures the best looks at the AW20 menswear shows. With 53 menswear shows to host, Paris is fashion week’s behemoth. This year, the chaos surrounding the shows has largely been eclipsed by a national transport strike taking place in protest over government plans for pension reform — breaking records as it entered its sixth consecutive week. Still, PFW persevered with spirits undamped, as documented by photographer Marc-Henri Ngandu...

As Netflix launches new design-competition series Next in Fashion, we take a look back at some of the best and worst fashion TV shows to have graced our screens. The fashion industry is notoriously superficial and intriguingly exclusive, so it’s a sublime fit for reality television. From X Factor-esque design competitions, to those cringeworthy styling shows, there have been infinite tacky attempts at fashion TV throughout the last two decades, with most shows only managing a couple of months airtime...