TJ Sidhu

London, United Kingdom

Freelance writer and editor, previously Style & Culture Editor at @thefacemagazine

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Articles

Setchu: The Modern Tailor

Nov 13, 2024 | 10magazine.com | TJ Sidhu

For emerging designers like Satoshi Kuwata, the LVMH Prize can be a lifeline. Established in 2013, with its first edition a year later, it awards a £250,000 endowment for a brand, plus a one-year tailor-made mentorship programme with esteemed industry insiders. Need proof of its success? Just look at some past winners: Grace Wales Bonner, Marine Serre and Simon Porte Jacquemus.
Teenage boys' lives are more complex than ever

Sep 27, 2024 | theface.com | TJ Sidhu |Alfie White |Hamish Wirgman

Taken from the new print issue of THE FACE. Get your copy here. It’s a miserable day in Hackney, East London. Thick pellets of rain drop onto dull pavements, the sky is murky grey and there’s a chill in the air. Brit summer, eh? In a small studio in the corner of an industrial unit, the energy’s a little more sunny. Three teenage boys – all friends from school – are rifling through a rail of clothes, picking out hoodies, puffer jackets, baggy jeans and branded T‑shirts.
Virginie Viard bows out from Chanel

Jun 7, 2024 | theface.com | TJ Sidhu

All aboard the choo-choo train of creative designers: next to get off is Virginie Viard, who is stepping down from her role as creative director of Chanel. She assumed the role five years ago, after the passing of Karl Lagerfeld, who Viard had worked with at the house for 30 years. Who’ll take her spot? There’s been whispers of Celine’s Hedi Slimane taking over for a while – which could spell a first-time menswear line for the French house.
Je Suis Casting is the hottest agency in fashion

Jun 7, 2024 | theface.com | TJ Sidhu

Taken from the new print issue of THE FACE. Get your copy here. What does a casting director look for in a model? “I’m looking for friends or potential friends,” says Franziska Bachofen-Echt, founder of Vienna’s Je Suis Casting. Franziska set up the agency in 2022 after the très chic French designer Charles Anastase told her, “tu es casting” (ask your French teacher). He wasn’t wrong.
Blood, blood, everywhere: how Frank Lebon turned a gory obsession into lyrical photographs

May 7, 2024 | theguardian.com | TJ Sidhu

Frank Lebon is fascinated by blood. It’s the connecting theme that flows through his first art book, One Blood, a photographic project that takes us through the Covid-19 pandemic, a type 1 diabetes diagnosis, and love, family and friendship. “I’m always collecting some sort of imagery, but very rarely do I feel it’s worthy of sharing with the world,” the 30-year-old photographer and film-maker says from his bright and airy studio in south London.
Grime photographer Simon Wheatley on his Corteiz collaboration

May 3, 2024 | theface.com | TJ Sidhu

Picture the scene: 20 years ago, Simon Wheatley was close to being mauled by a dog. He was in a park in Stratford, East London, photographing legendary grime MC Crazy Titch. Wheatley – one of the most revered documentarian of the grime scene between 1998 and the mid-2000s – had met Titch the day before at a recording studio in West London, where he was taking his portrait for now-defunct RWD magazine. But that setting, in that corner of the city, didn’t feel quite right.
Guess Jeans takes Coachella in very LA style

Apr 19, 2024 | theface.com | TJ Sidhu

In case you missed it, or don’t follow us on Instagram (ahem), we’ve been making noise about our five-year anniversary all week. And all to those leaving comments along the lines of, “err, didn’t The Face start in 1980?”, you’re not wrong. But after the first iteration of the magazine closed in 2004, it was in April 2019 that we relaunched the print mag and digitally, which is when theface.com was born. When it comes to style, THE FACE has a few preferences.
Penelope Cruz and Brad Pitt fall in love for Chanel

Apr 5, 2024 | theface.com | TJ Sidhu

You wouldn’t believe it from looking out the window, but spring is here. The days are finally getting longer, the air ever so balmier, and, before you know it, we’ll have our bums plonked in a scorching beer garden wishing it was cooler. All that makes it a good time to revisit the SS24 shows from last September. It was a big month of firsts: Sabato de Sarno, Peter Do and Peter Hawkings all showed their first collections for Gucci, Helmut Lang and Tom Ford, respectively.
Alessandro Michele is the new creative director of Valentino

Mar 29, 2024 | theface.com | TJ Sidhu

And so, the fashion industry musical chairs continue!After a quarter of a century spent making the brand a contemporary staple – finding fans in Zendaya, and Olivia Rodrigo, defining pink as the new black, and drawing on wide influences from music, art, cinema and literature – creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli and Valentino have made the joint decision to end their stint together.
Gucci goes giddy for Kingsley Ben-Addir

Mar 22, 2024 | theface.com | TJ Sidhu

Did you read Phoebe Philo’s interview this week? Fashion’s great enigma gave the gossip to the New York Times (we were busy), speaking about her buzzy namesake label in her first proper interview in over a decade. What were the big takeaways? Well, Philo, wearing a black bomber and pinstripe grey suit, shared her grand, anti-high-concept design philosophy: “Someone telling me a story isn’t going to make me like it more. It is a coat. It’s a pair of trousers.