The Face Magazine No 96 April 1988 

INTRO 30-38 

BULLETIN 17

Stars in the ascendant: Monica, music for unsafe sex; Nasty Rox

Inc's grebo Go-Go; rising son Ziggy Marley; the bearable rightness

of Juliette Binoche; Denzel Washington acting smart; Maryum Ali

rapping clever

• ROADSIDE AMERICA in print HABIT: hoping they'll become one BUNTY MATTHIAS

takes a bite of The Big Apple Musical wallpaper: THE DESIGNER AXE SOUTH

BANK SHOW crossing the border WILL DOWNING making a break for the big time RODDY DOYLE'S

Commitments BOY'S OWN clubland v the terraces Anglolyle LYLE LOVETT IN THE MIX: the DJ as

artiste RANDY SHILTS The Band Played On DANCEFLOOR NATE TATE telling tales TRIVIA • OBJECTIVITY

Home Suite Home •

THE POGUES 42

Not cool, but hip; Shane MacGowan talks suits, sobriety and song.

Justine Picardie goes on the road with the non-Celtic wanderers

BEYOND BLACK 46

What comes next; pastel, neon, au naturelle or noir encore? Dieter

Rams and the black brigade look to the future and stand divided

 J.G. BALLARD 50

The novelist at home in the literary twilight zone of science fiction.

Paul Rambali discovers the writer of Crash and Empire Of The Sun

would rather sleep with Mrs Thatcher

TEENAGE CLEAN WAVE 56

Bros; a new breed of caring, sharing pop group? We're talking

musical potential, quality control and the next phase of teen mania.

David Toop visits the Bros Front

FASHION: ALEX EATS 64

Food fetishism and a fashion offensive combined to nauseating

effect by photographer Anthony Gordon and stylist Katy Lush

ALL WHAT JAZZ? 76

Can jazz survive its revival? Richard Cook offers a purist's view

EXPO: NEW FRENCH ART 81

The next instalment in France's comic-book tradition

ROBERT TOWNSEND 86

If you want a job doing properly

Hollywood Shuffle. lan Penman comes out laughing

CELEBUTANTE CITY 90

Dollar dies, clubbers fly. A consumer's guide to New York nightlife

FASHION: VICTORIAN PRINCIPLE 94

The Rise and Fall of the Empire Line as seen by Juergen Teller

and Paul Frecker

BURGER QUEEN 102

A sticky situation. Rikki Lake gets to grips with Hairspray,

John Waters' first film for all the family

EXPO: NEVILLE BRODY 105

Brody the bold; remember where you saw him first. Simon Esterson

on the man that did for minimalism what he did for minimalism.

MONITOR 112

CINEMA: Wall Street, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, A Man in Love, Flame In My

Heart, Hollywood Shuffle, Broadcast News: Ian Penman on the month's new films MUSIC:

by David Toop PULP: by John Williams ART: by Tom Baker

LETTERS 4 MARGINS 9 BACK ISSUES/SUBSCRIPTIONS 125 DISINFORMATION 126

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The Face was a very popular British music, fashion and culture magazine that was launched in May 1980 by Nick Logan who had also previously created the teenage pop magazine Smash Hits, and had been an editor at the New Musical Express (NME) in the 1970s. Some people associated with The Face over the years were designer and typographer Neville Brody (Art Director, 198186), creative director Lee Swillingham (Art Director 1993-1999), Craig Tilford (Art Directior 1999-2002), Graham Rounthwaite (Art Director 2002-2003), Julie Burchill, Tony Parsons, photographers Juergen Teller, David Sims and writers including Jon Savage, Fiona Russell Powell and James Truman and others.