FAULT reviews: The Weeknd – Kiss Land
The air of secrecy surrounding Abel Tesfaye shows no sign of clearing any time soon, yet with his new album Kiss Land, the picture has become ever so slightly clearer...
The Weeknd - Kiss Land
From the moment it was first mentioned The Weeknd has been keen to show his fans that Kiss Land is more than just an album. Through his now trademark minimalistic approach to communication,…
FAULT reviews: The Edinburgh Festival Fringe ’13
The approach of August brings the Edinburgh Festival to the capital, with not only inflated prices, over-whelmed looking tourists, and pubs that open at 6am and close at 4am the next day, but also the Fringe, the largest arm of the festival. 2013 featured over 2,542 different shows, in over 258 venues, by over 21,192 performers. For four weeks of the year the city hums with activity. ‘I…
FAULT Review: Hong Kong Fashion Week
Given its unique position in Asia as the ultimate crossroads of the Orient and the Occident, we had no idea what to expect from Hong Kong Fashion Week. The thing is, beneath its surface of mixed influences that can on first impression seem excessive and over-saturated, there is a current of modernity that runs through the heart of Hong Kong and just as (if not more) importantly, there is a…
FAULT Review: Populaire
Régis Roinsard makes his feature length directorial debut in this charming, albeit predictable, French romantic comedy. Marketed as ‘Mad Men meets The Artist’, its glamorous styling does aesthetically fulfil this promise and - in the same way as when Michel Hazanavicius [director of The Artist] paid homage to the silent films of the 1920s -Roinsard’s tribute to 1950s Hollywood has also been…
FAULT Reviews: Joss Whedon’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’
“But, I beseech your grace, pardon me: I
was born to speak all mirth and no matter.”
The genius of Shakespeare's work, we are informed by those better-read than us, is in it's timelessness. Those lilting words resonate with universally human themes of power, life, death, love and loss. In Joss Whedon's 2013 adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing we have a tale of plots and counter-plots, a war of…
FAULT Reviews Free Range – Middlesex University Fashion Show
The Middlesex University students, or MDX Fashion as they like to call themselves, pulled out a great graduate show this past week. You could tell this group was out to be noticed by the fashion elite. Clara Monahan dreamed up a Copa Cabana themed collection complete with pineapple hats, with the models strutting the catwalk to "Shake Senora" and Kristy Anderton presented floral head pieces and…
Trans-European collaboration to promote student designers – FAULT reviews the recent Fashion Culture competition in Poland
Fashion Culture is an ambitious, innovative project focussed on creating a relationship between Poland and the UK through fashion, art, dance and music. The initiative competition centres around the presentation of work by outstanding students based in both Poland and the UK, namely The International School of Costume and Fashion Design, Krakow School of Art and, from the UK, London College of…
Michael Shannon, star of The Iceman and Man of Steel – exclusive shoot for FAULT Issue 15 (sneak preview)
To celebrate the UK release of Michael's chilling flick The Iceman, we are releasing an early outtake from our exclusive shoot with the star for the reversible cover of FAULT Issue 15. Shannon also stars in this Summer's Superman reboot Man of Steel, in UK cinemas from 14th June.
Michael Shannon was shot by Alexandra Leese at the Apartment 58 members club in London
"The people who know me…