Give Good Face
Tap It!
By Casey Kettleson
in Fashion Features
on October 30, 2009
With rumors spreading about the resurrection of the now defunct uber-cool Brit glossy The Face, we can’t help but be inspired.
By Hayley Elisabeth Kaufman
As an Anglo-obsessed teen in the ’90s, The Face magazine was my subversive fashion bible. Thanks to The Face—which was founded in the early ’80s by former NME editor Nick Logan, but peaked in the opulent haze of the mid 1990s—us Yanks across the pond were able to channel that cool, London “It” girl style and get hip to all the latest on-the-verge Brit-pop band to crush on. Always clued-in—and pushing the proverbial envelope but with a cheeky-yet-chic style—this mag brought heaps of sartorial inspiration to hungry style connoisseurs across the globe.
Since The Face has been out of print since 2004, you might be wondering why we’ve rekindled our fervent love affair with the now defunct book of cool. All summer rumors have been surfacing that The Face will be relaunched either digitally, subscription-only, or as free magazine, and recently there’s been talk of Bauer Media reviving the mag. Whether or not these rumors are fact or fiction, the news has me all-kinds of excited—I even broke out some face paint and some pretty punk threads for the occasion. That said, here are a few memorable covers of the magazine that launched a thousand stylists.
