Editorial Director
& Creative Consultant
I’m the Associate Editor of Fantastic Man and the Editor of tennis magazine, BAGEL.
Here’s a selection of my cover stories, profiles, features and fashion reporting as a writer and editor for GQ, The Face, i-D, Buffalo Zine, Dazed & Confused, Another Man, Amuse, Mr Porter, Matches Fashion and Vogue. What connects my work is the desire to cover the people pushing culture forward, as well as my love of creating material full of ideas, surprises, personality and humanity.
As the Editor of The Face, I reinvented “a magazine that changed culture” (The New York Times), staying faithful to the brand’s much-loved DNA, but making it feel right for today. The Face is now an established voice in global media, known for its timely and curious take on youth culture. Exclusive cover stars included Travis Scott, Dua Lipa, Harry Styles, Tyler, the Creator, Rosalía and Grimes. Photographers included Juergen Teller, Collier Schorr, Steven Klein, David LaChapelle, Frank Lebon, Bolade Banjo and Ewen Spencer. Stylists included Ursina Gysi, Georgia Pendlebury, Celestine Cooney, Matthew Josephs, Tamara Rothstein and Ai Kamoshita.
Below are highlights from my work as a writer, including interviews with musicians, designers, film-makers, artists and sports stars. Not forgetting my print-only pieces on Lady Gaga, John Waters, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Shakira, Annie Lennox, Chaka Khan, Nigella Lawson and Wolfgang Tillmans.
GQ Magazine
Sam Smith. Photography by Joel Palmer
Bimini. Photography by Marcin Kempski
Bill Nighy. Photography by Ben Weller
Bukayo Saka. Photography by Adama Jalloh
Maisie Williams. Photography by Lee Wei Swee
Oliver Sim. Photography: Nicola Delorme.
“GQ's ranking of the 25 most stylish sportsmen ever.” By Stuart Brumfitt
“I’m mindful I’ve made a record about shame and fear, but I don’t want to sound like a finished product. I still have fear, I still have shame. I’m just far less overwhelmed by it than I was.”
— Oliver Sim
Roger Federer. Credit: Clive Brunskill /Allsport
"In hindsight, I think, ‘Was I crazy to wear XL at 17?’ But you wanted to think you were big and buff, even when you weren’t yet."
— Roger Federer
How to train like a Wimbledon champion. Story by Stuart Brumfitt. Credit: Andy Cheung
Bjorn Borg on being a tennis style icon. Story by Stuart Brumfitt. Photo courtesy of Fila Museum.
“Padel is set to be the biggest fitness trend of the summer”. By Stuart Brumfitt
John McEnroe on Djokovic, Raducanu and opposing the ban on Russian players. Interview by Stuart Brumfitt. Credit – AELTC/Michael Cole.
Buffalo Zine
Chelsea – Issue No. 16
Pink – Issue No. 15
IRL – Issue No. 14
Viral – Issue No. 13
Mr Porter
Jeff Koons. Photograph by Ms Ela Bialkowska/OKNO studio
“Breakpoint! Five Tennis Academies To Travel To This Summer.” Words by Mr Stuart Brumfit
Mawem Brothers. Photography by Mr Thomas Chéné | Styling by Mr Dan Sablon
“As soon as you find something greater than the self, you’re able to have transcendence…As soon as you’re able to find something outside the self, all the energies of the world emerge.”
— Jeff Koons
Andre Agassi. Photograph by Presse Sports/Offside
“We’re getting back to nature, learning about regenerative cultures, living more sustainably. Bali is very much the lifestyle I wanted to live.”
— Dan Mitchell
Dan Mitchell. Photography by Mr Tommaso Riva
Julie Ragolia. Collage by Mr Maxwell N Burnstein
Christian Ramirez. Collage by Mr Maxwell N Burnstein
COS
Honey Dijon. Photography by Tim Elkaïm, Styling by Clare Richardson
SOKO. Photography by Collier Schorr. Styling by Esther Matilla.
Janaya Future Khan. Photography by Jack Davison, Styling by Clare Richardson
“If you're a DJ, or a designer, or a creative, you have to be a part of the world. I don't separate music from fashion, art, or travel. It's all the same beat.”
— Honey Dijon
Coco Capitán.
“We can’t claim victory until everyone - and this is everyone in the gender and sexual spectrum, independent to race, geopolitical location, religion or wealth - can enjoy the right to be who they are and love who they damn please.”
— Coco Capitan
Kai-Isaiah Jamal. Photography by Collier Schorr. Styling by Esther Matilla.
“Though Pride is joyous, it also has to be a space of resistance and protest.”
— Kai-Isaiah Jamal
“You don't have to be a social scientist expert to understand racism – you just have to pay attention.”
— Janaya Future Khan
Matches Fashion
Roger Federer. Photography by Horst Diekgerdes.
“Being able to meet Donatella Versace, Miuccia Prada, Giorgio Armani or Virgil Abloh – it’s a privilege for me when I get to speak to people like them and see where they think the trends are going.”
— Roger Federer
ES Magazine
“There has to be great trust and the player has to look up to the coach, otherwise it has no chance of working. And in the case of Serena and myself, it goes both ways.”
— Patrick Mouratoglou
Patrick Mouratoglou.
“You’re talking to people all over the world. It doesn’t matter your background, religion, sexuality, country, how much money you make — Diesel has a place in any household. I’ll be more of a social designer.”
— Glenn Martens
THE FACE
Harry Styles, The Face magazine, Vol. 4, Issue 1
The Face fashion
Dua Lipa, The Face magazine, Vol. 4, Issue 1
DaBaby
Rosalía, The Face magazine, Vol. 4, Issue 1
Christian Alexander
Aitch
Top Boy
Milovan Farronato
Top Boy
Tyler, the Creator
The Face fashion
Dua Lipa
Tyler, the Creator, The Face magazine, Vol. 4, Issue 1
Harry Styles
Rosalía. Photography: Juergen Teller. Styling: Danny Reed & Danielle Emerson
“The artist should be in the background so that the story and soul of that song are in the foreground. On the stage, when I feel most fulfilled is when I get close to being a channel.”
— Rosalía
Naira Marley, The Face magazine, Vol. 4, Issue 2
Roman Griffin Davis
Alexa Demie, The Face magazine, Vol. 4, Issue 2
Alvaro Barrington
Javon Walton, The Face magazine, Vol. 4, Issue 2
Tiffany Calver
Alexa Demie
Lily-Rose Depp
D-Block Europe
Kantemir Balagov
Naira Marley
Lads shopping
Lily-Rose Depp, The Face magazine, Vol. 4, Issue 2
Sech
“L.A. is a special place. Everyone wants to come here to live their dreams. I was definitely meant to be born here...I knew I was going to do something in art or music or film and I was not going to stop until I made my mark.”
— Alexa Demie
Alexa Demie. Photography: Alice Neale. Styling: Danielle Emerson
LaKeith Stanfield. Photography: Michael Hauptman. Styling: Celestine Cooney
“Hollywood designs things in ways that have worked in the past, which trickles all the way down into the roles and types of movies. Stereotypes perpetuate stereotypes. I think it’s quite lazy.”
— LaKeith Stanfield
Grimes, The Face magazine, Vol. 4, Issue 3
Adonis
Lara Stone, The Face magazine, Vol. 4, Issue 3
Cailee Spaeny
Noen Eubanks, The Face magazine, Vol. 4, Issue 3
Griselda
Du'an Brotherhood
George MacKay
Jaboukie Young-White
Darkoo
Jahi Winston
Levan Gelbakhiani
Women's football
The rise of cubs and scouts
6 Figure Gang
Talia Ryder
LaKeith Stanfield, The Face magazine. Vol. 4, Issue 3
Taylour Paige
Travis Scott, The Face magazine. Vol. 4, Issue 4
Flock Together
Deb Never
Fashion East
America's Warrior Police State
Mustafa
Socially distanced summer
Avalon Emerson
Bolade Banjo
Sie7etr3
We Are Who We Are
“People are finally seeing the oppression that’s been happening and overlooked, and that we, as a culture, have been fighting through every day.”
— Travis Scott
GmbH Menswear S/S 21
“We love fashion, we love making clothes. But we’re not in this to sell clothes. It sounds paradoxical but that’s not the end game for us. It’s the stories and the community — that’s really what we want to be about.”
— Benjamin Huseby, GMBH
Travis Scott. Photography: David LaChapelle. Styling: Brett Alan Anderson.
“We kept on designing around the crotch! And now there are crotches everywhere. I think it’s a very beautiful part of the human body, I really enjoy that place. We should celebrate it and elevate it. It’s essential to my existence.”
— Glenn Martens, Y/Project
Y/Project S/S 21
Paris & Milan Fashion Week coverage
Prada, Milan Men's A/W 20
Jacquemus, Paris Men’s A/W 20
Alexander McQueen, Paris Women’s A/W 20
A Cold Wall, Milan Men’s A/W 20
Lanvin, Paris Women’s A/W 20
Louis Vuitton, Paris Women’s A/W 20
Balenciaga, Paris Women’s A/W 20
Vivienne Westwood, Paris Women’s A/W 20
Dior, Paris Men's A/W 20
A Cold Wall, Milan Men’s A/W 20
Giorgio Armani, Milan Men’s A/W 20
Gucci, Milan Men's A/W20
Balmain, Paris Women’s A/W 20
i-D
Riccardo Tisci’s Givenchy. Photography: Danko Steiner
Janice Alida. Photography: David Sims.
“To make only beautiful bags and clothes is great, but sometimes why not put this social message next to it? If nobody stands up, the world is never going to change, and you'll think, 'My god, we live in a fucked up world.'”
— Riccardo Tisci
Kim Jones
“You have to go a long way to find things now, but if you don't go there, you don't know what you're going to see. It's fine to look on the internet or in a book, but I like to see, touch, look at things and be inspired by culture, wildlife, people... I'm quite sensory in that way.”
— Kim Jones
Dev Hynes & Kindness. Photography: Beau Grealy. Styling: Andreas Kokkino
“It's really about grabbing some hope—that same hope that Martin Luther King had, that same hope that Malcolm X had—and trying to continue that.”
— Kendrick Lamar
“I fucking despise the guitar! It's a love-hate, but mainly hate relationship. It's the instrument I'm best at. I could be shot in the face and I'd still be able to play guitar, but I've always despised it. I even hate holding a guitar.”
— Dev Hynes
Kendrick Lamar
Kiddy Smile at a Paris vogue ball. Photography: Pierre Ange Carlotti.
Jourdan Dunn. Photography: Quentin Jones. Fashion Director: Sarah Richardson
Skepta
“I've gone to Australia, New Zealand, killed that, went to Hong Kong, killed Europe, went to Nigeria, killed Africa, went to America, smashed the East Coast and the West Coast… Life is sick, don't cry for me when I die”
— SkepTa
Eddie Peake. Photography Alasdair McLellan
"Art-making is a blind feeling-out in the dark… When I say in my art that I want to invent a language from scratch, I mean something like that: find a space and a place in the work that is untranslatable to any other form of language."
— Eddie Peake
“Feminism informs how I approach everything. I wanted to create a place for girls who would not normally read feminist theory. Girls my age are used to being fed a lot of girl power rhetoric, so I wanted to do something more in-depth, but something that isn't alienating.”
— Tavi Gavinson
KAWS. Photography: Nils Mueller.
“When I started with drag, it was more of a political punk rock f-you. you can still see pictures of me this way on YouTube—I had smeared lipstick and combat boots and torn wedding dresses, like "F-you!" That's gender fuck.”
— RuPaul
Tavi Gevinson. Photography: Petra Collins.
RuPaul
“I always worked to make fashion more pop. I think the 90s in fashion were really interesting. Remember all the Gianni Versace shows when there was Elton John, Prince and David Bowie there? That's what made me love fashion.”
— Olivier Rousteing
Mykki Blanco. Photography: Bruno Staub
Olivier Rousteing
Ciara
Kate Moss by pop artist Allen Jones
Popcaan
“Pop music is getting more and more vague. That's sad. I don't want my music to be bland shit.”
— Lily Allen
Ian Isiah. Photography: Barbara Anastacio
Still from Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash
“A camera has to be pansexual, and when a camera is monosexual, it's horrible. But that's what happens all too often.”
— Luca Guadagnino
Lily Allen. Photography Matteo Montanari. Styling Max Clark
Julie Adenuga. Photography: Olivia Rose. Styling: Bojana Kozarevic
Martin Parr
“I'm not going to tell you about my skills. I'm an English person! We don't talk ourselves up. I'm not American. C'mon!”
— Martin Parr
Dazed & Confused
Jamie Bochert. Photography: Willy Vanderperre. Styling: Katy England
“Fashion is a part of hip hop. They’ve been close since Nelly, P Diddy, Jay-Z, 50 Cent. You’ve got to have your fashion, because you’ve got to have your own look.”
— Migos
Dapper Dan
“Harlem likes a certain extravagance. The mainstay are items made out of silk, linen, leather, exotic skins, minks and furs. Those fineries determine your status.”
— Dapper Dan
RuPaul
Fire Island. Photography: Henrique Plantikow
Migos
“I get excited about terminologies around fluidity or liquidness in sexuality and gender. I think the whole thing should be hugely playful and open.”
— Planningtorock
Planningtorock. Photography: Jess Gough
Another Man
Tom Sachs, Swiss Passport Office, 2018
“The art world has nothing to do with art. The motivation for doing these things that I have – and I speak for all the artists there – doesn’t start with those things. It starts with the studio, always. It always starts with the work.”
— Tom Sachs
Still from Khalik Allah’s film Black Mother
Durrty Doogz, Crazy Titch, Hitman Hyper and Kano. Photography: Sabrina Mahfouz
Still from Sarah Lewis’s film Cuts. Photography: Steve Brooks
“Film-making is about touching people and affecting people on a spiritual level. That’s my purpose here – like a minister, man.”
— Khalik Allah
Amuse
Jean-Michel Basquiat & Jennifer Stein Anti-Baseball Card Product, 1979, Colour Photocopy. Collection of Jennifer Von Holstein © Jennifer Von Holstein and the estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Photo: Justin Piperger.
Photography: Lorraine O’Grady
“Me and Basquiat would go up to the Museum of Modern Art to sell postcards and they kept saying, ‘You can’t sell things’, and we were like, ‘Art denial! Art denial! Art denial!’”
— Jennifer Stein
Kiddy Smile’s Guide to Paris. Photography: Manuel Obadia-Wills
“I was 23 and African-Americans and other artists of colour were not shown in other galleries and museums, so I decided to do it – with zero money! it was a ballsy thing to do ”
— Linda Goode Bryant
A still from Barry Jenkins’s film, Moonlight
“One of the themes in the film is this performance of masculinity. I think externally, what we project to the world is very different to what we feel beneath the surface.”
— Barry Jenkins
Surreal studies of Dubai’s upper-class. Photography: Nick Hannes
Explosive phots from Mexico’s Burning of the Bulls festival. Photography: Dan Medhurst
A Guide to New York’s Upper East Side. Image: Hannukah Lamp #7, 1989-20, John Parnell. Photo © The Jewish Museum, New York.
11 Things to do in Lisbon
John Booth’s ceramics
“Some people see my work as less academic, or less serious. People think it’s more profound to do darker, more obscure work, but I don’t think that stands. I take my work seriously, even if it’s not a serious subject.”
— John Booth
Health tips from fitness expert Joe Holder
“I not only had to evaluate what I was doing fitness and performance wise, but also with my wellness, mental health, emotional health, spirituality, all of that.”
— Joe Holder
“With the menu, I don’t want to do crazy technical shit. I just do fun stuff that you can smash some booze with and then you can go out to your rave, or you could go home to your mum.”
— Magnus Reid
The lowdown on the London food scene with Magnus Reid. Photography: Rosie Ellis
Jamaican food travel story
“You want chaos? Give a Jamaican unseasoned food!”
— Cherée
Pierre Bergé and Yves Saint Laurent in Marrakech, 1977. Photography: Guy Marineau.
“The Moroccan sun probes every recess and corner. The birds were singing and the Atlas Mountain, covered with snow, would make our horizon warmer and greater.”
— Pierre Bergé
Raf Simons
Rick Owens
“I wanted a room filled with my furniture to look like a leather bar decorated by Brancusi. I want stuff to be big, strong and silent. But within this severity I allow myself moments of complete sensuous collapse.”
— Rick Owens
Ralph Lauren / Octopus – Wimbledon Campaign
Wallpaper Magazine
Claudio Marenzi. Photography by Mattia Greghi.
Shinsuke Yamaji – C.P. Company.
Vogue
Crystal Moselle and the cast of Skate Kitchen and Betty. Photography: Lily Bertrand-Webb
“There are a lot more women directing these days, but the biggest problem is that we’re telling these female-driven stories which people in higher places are not really wanting to put out in the world in an impactful way.”
— Crystal Moselle
Wonderland
Sky Ferreira
Big Sean
“Fiona Apple was my number one idol as a kid. Nastassja Kinski is a very big person for me. Vanessa Paradis as a teenager! She’s still glamorous. I love all that look of French girls, like Brigitte Bardot.”
— Sky Ferreira
Miguel