I personally have rosacea, but my make-up artist is great at sorting it out. One styling statement he is happy to talk about? “All men wear make-up, it’s 2014, it’s fine.
“I’ll never tell anyone why I have them, but I love them,” says Sam. His tat collection also includes a plane on his right leg (“drunk in Malia at 18 and I’d just got off the plane, so I got a plane”) and two tiny secret symbols on his fingers. “I don’t even like ice cream!” he laughs. “If I was ever going to cover one of her tracks it would be ‘Double Rainbow’, from her new album, it’s amazing.”įrom the ultimate California Gurl to Sam’s first trip to LA last year, he brought back one souvenir that’s certainly not going to gather dust on a shelf: an ice cream cone tattoo on his left leg.
I think a lot of artists get caught up in keeping a consistent feel running through their record, but even though my album has a theme – loneliness – it’s me who’s the constant, not the sound.”īringing his inimitable voice to London’s Roundhouse on May 30th, he’s gig clashing with Katy Perry, who continues her Prismatic World Tour at the O2 Arena that very same night. While he likes to keep a consistent image going for his fans, the same can’t be said for his music, which Sam says “shouldn’t always have to sound the same.” Speaking of his debut album In The Lonely Hour, which is set for release on May 26th, he shares, “I want to show people that even though I can do Stay With Me, I can also do Latch just as well. I really want people to see my earrings as my signature.” “I’ll need to get new ones made in proper silver, but these are a temporary measure, I thought they were cute. “My crosses were hurting my ears this morning, so I had to take them out,” he says.
I like to surprise people and I’d wear anything really, but I still want to be identifiable, and I could never do jogging bottoms.Ī big part of Sam’s identity is the silver cross earrings he’s never usually seen without, but on the day of our shoot we notice they’ve been replaced by tiny gold ‘S’ initials. “I might do some nice patterns and prints. “I need to work out what I’m going to do, because I like jackets and I like layering, but it’s going to be too warm,” says Sam. So how is he planning on translating his suave suited style to a more casual, summer wardrobe? Speaking of performances, Sam has plenty lined up over the summer, playing every festival from T In The Park to Australia’s Splendour In The Grass. “I dressed myself today, but my stylist has taught me that you always have to wear what you feel comfortable in, because it affects your mood, performance, everything.” “I only got them about five days ago, but I’ve scraped them already,” says Sam with a sigh. Appropriate, really, as the ‘Stay With Me’ singer is also one of the nicest men in music.Ĭontinuing our fashion chat, we discover his shirt is American Apparel and his shoes are Jimmy Choo. “My jacket is Armani and it’s so soft – stroke it!” Doing as we’re told, we caress Sam’s coat sleeve as if it were a cat, and it is literally the nicest thing ever to touch our skin. “For me it’s all about quality,” says Sam Smith when asked about his sartorial choices.