CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/8/2025

Celebrating 25 years of 'The Face Magazine'

If you were anywhere near “culture” in the 1980s and 1990s, you know The Face. Published out of London, it captured and created many a mini-zeitgeist via the photography of upstarts like Miles Aldridge, Elaine Constantine, Corinne Day, David LaChapelle and Juergen Teller. Their muses: everyone from the very young Kate Moss and Kurt Cobain to Grace Jones, Sade, Boy George and Run-DMC. Pictured here, Elaine Constantine’s Girls on Bikes (Sarf Coastin’), styled by Polly Banks, December 1997. “Magazines were much more distinct from one another then,” photographer David Sims is quoted. “Vogue magazine was very much about fashion, designers and high society. The Face stood for a culture that was at large in clubs and the music scene, bolstered by the attitude of journalism which was defiantly in opposition to the mainstream.”