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Sans Patrie founder Delphin Musquet set to release first collection
Sans Patrie founder Delphin Musquet set to release first collection

Later this week, Delphin Musquet will release the first items of his Sans Patrie fashion line realising a dream years in the making and unifying his business ventures.  Musquet, the founder and creative director of the Shoreditch, London, tattoo studio of the same name, has hired Farhad Hakim to help design the collection.  Hakim has

Tiny Zaps set to bring ‘coffee card culture’ to tattooing
Tiny Zaps set to bring ‘coffee card culture’ to tattooing

Bandit Studio’s Bruno Levy has a new venture offering cheap tattoos with big customer rewards Tiny Zaps looks set to disrupt tattooing in a major way in the coming months with a business model that not only puts customers first – but rewards them in a way the industry never has. The idea –  from

RIP Sally
RIP Sally

Sally looks dead, but instead of a morgue the artist lays rigid, chained away, in a white-walled room concealed behind a shop selling houseplants and botanicals in southeast London.

Servadio The Shaman
Servadio The Shaman

On a massage table he laid, rigid as a corpse, dressed only in chinos and trainers as a camera hovered above his eye-line, focused on his chest. A shoji screen shielded his feet as a student-flat party of scenesters in black satin, denim, leather and lace, gathered around his neck, swilling wine from disposal cups, eager for the composer of this Frankenstein-esque scene to begin his work.

Liam Sparkes
Liam Sparkes

Liam Sparkes is at war – with everything. Has been since he was a boy. Age 11 he sent a sketch of an armoured personnel carrier to the Queen. The London tattooist, raised on tales of conflict from grandparents who had manned frigates and parachuted behind enemy lines during the war, thought she might need it. She didn’t.

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  • Anders Gran

    Anders Gran

    I’d never been super into tattooing. I didn’t even think about it until I was 18. I’ve been skateboarding my whole life, so my first tattoo was a Thrasher symbol. I never really stopped from there. My first week I did like five tattoos. I’ve been busy from there.

  • Chris’ Collection

    Chris’ Collection

    I first got tattooed when I was about 18 in St Ives, where I grew up. Some shit colourful stuff on my arm that I’ve since blasted over. It progressed pretty slowly over the next few years. I got a big piece by Duncan X and some home poked stuff by Danny Fox.

  • Threesomes

    Threesomes

    If you like to gamble and also deface your flesh, Adam Vu has you covered. The Berlin-based artist has found a way of breaking the monotony of marking his clients with the same imagery, while also adding an element of exhilaration and uncertainty, by putting the entire process at the mercy of spinning wheels. ‘Threesomes’…

  • Angelic Angelica

    Angelic Angelica

    Melbourne tattoo shop manager Angelica Duncan’s first tattoo was script on her arm, meaning ‘my family, my everything’. Almost a decade later she has an enviable collection of traditional and fine line work from her thighs to her forehead.

  • A Crazy Face

    A Crazy Face

    Less than 12 months ago Conrad Bowpitt, a coffee roaster from Leicester, had a head and face clear of tattoos. But now his skin has been taken over, the markings spreading like a bacterial-badness from chin to forehead, dome to occiput – and for most of it he’s been detached from the designs. His mate,…

  • Jack The Lad

    Jack The Lad

    Jack Delany is a barber, model and musician and at 26 years old is almost completely covered in tattoos.