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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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