Preview: ART14 art fair, London – 28 February – 2nd March 2014 @ Kensington Olympia

FAULT Magazine is an official media partner of ART14. Come and visit us at the fair at Stand N18. Just one year on since it began, Art14 has become a vibrantly important celebration of London's eminence within the global art scene. Building on the star-studded accessibility of its launch year in 2013 and supported by a list of stellar contacts and experienced organizers, this event is…

FAULT Reviews: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

As the weather gets worse, the music gets intolerable and the country is plunged into darkness by 3pm, the cinemas become filled with films that attempt to spin the season into fantasy, chastising our inner Scrooge with visions of children laughing and chestnuts roasting by an open fire. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, which opens on Boxing Day, steps away from this model (there are no…

FAULT Review: Paloma Faith’s ‘Faith in Art’ exhibition with Album Artists

A little self-promotion is an essential part of an album release for most major musicians. But whilst some artists stick to the chat show circuit and others turn towards interesting technology-based additions (see Metronomy’s new single I’m Aquarius for reference,) singer Paloma Faith has sought to explore her powerful and traditional visual identity in yet more depth in her quest to better…

FAULT Reviews: ‘And Every Day was Overcast’ – An Illustrated Novel by Paul Kwiatkowski

“Memories of childhood humanize us as adults. With age, our version of that time is deformed then reassembled. What fragments bleed through are tailored to a narrative designed to hide vulnerability.” -P.K., And Every Day Was Overcast   If the absence of vulnerability is a hallmark of adult self-retrospection as the first three lines of Paul Kwiatkowski’s debut novel, And Every Day Was…

FAULT Reviews: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

DISCLAIMER: This writer only watched the first Hunger Games film the night before attending the preview screening of the sequel, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - having missed it in cinemas and somehow dodged the hype . If you have arrived at this review of the sequel uninitiated then watch the first, fantastic, film now. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire follows Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) and…

FAULT reviews: Vogue’s Fashion Night Out in Manchester

For the first time in its four-year history, Vogue Fashion's Night Out was held outside of London. The 2013 event, widely referred to by its hashtag #FNO, travelled north to Manchester, bringing with it some of the most influential figures from the world of fashion. British Vogue editor-in-chief Alexandra Shulman, designer Matthew Williamson and Kate Phelan, creative director for both Topshop and…

NYFW (Sept ’13) Review: Christian Siriano SS’14 show

Isla Mujeres (the Island of Women), next to the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico, was the main inspiration for Christian Siriano to design his latest SS '14 collection. This was, without a doubt,  a contemporary representation of - and fashion-orientated reflection on -  authentic Mexican culture, so admired for its vibrant style amongst women worldwide. The color palette evoked the vivid…

NYFW Review (Sept ’13): Tommy Hilfiger’s SS14 ‘Westcoasting’ show

Tommy Hilfiger presented his new womenswear collection for the upcoming Spring/Summer '14 season during New York Fashion Week. The set was completely inspired by the beach: sand on the floor, wood on the runway, surfboards, blue sky and the feeling of being somewhere in California. That’s why the show started with a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers whose singer, Anthony Kiedis, was seated in the…