The Face Reviews

You know processed cheese...cliched symbol of consumerism that you love really...well 'The Face' is exactly that for me. It stands for everything that is morally corrupt in society, parading itself as a taste-making institution that has the power to influence the way people see the world. And it does, if it runs a fashion piece then it is ...

Not the current one with that bloke from gladiator on the cover. The one before that. I stopped reading The Face over a year ago (around the same time they stopped printing Grab the Freebies) but, faced with a long train journey (colchester to london, about three hours these days...) and heving read everything else I was interested in in WH Smiths ...

I have bought The Face in the past because of its up-to-the-minute coverage of music, films, clubs and youth culture. Occassionally the magazine contains very perceptive coverage of current events. However what has put me off is the self-conscious trend-hopping that the magazine seems to engage in. One month somethings "in" and the next ...

Lured by the cute free button badges on the shrinkwrapped cover, I got the latest copy of The Face (September issue)and wondered if it had improved since the tragic downward spiral it had taken the last time I got it (a couple of years ago). It's all pretty much the same standard fare of 'style' mags - lots of arty pictures, ...

I used to regularly buy this mag in the late eighties and early nineties, perhaps because during that period youth culture as a whole was going through a major upheaval with the advent of underground dance music and free parties, and The Face did a very good job in reflecting this progression. Maybe it's because youth culture itself ...