After Rudakubana admitted his crimes the Crown Prosecution Service described him as a "young man with a sickening and sustained interest in death and violence".
The magazine, which the gallery described as "a cult British magazine that has shaped the tastes of the nation's youth", was eventuallyFormer assistant editor of The Face Ekow Eshun said: "The Face was probably the most influential magazine when it came to style culture."
Organisers said the exhibition aims to use the medium of portraiture to explore The Face's "monumental influence" throughout the 1980's, 1990's and 2000's.Mr Eshun told the BBC: "This was a time before the internet, before social media. Magazines could be incredibly influential. The Face is probably the most influential magazine when it came to style culture."He added: "I think Britain as a society became more visually sophisticated, was able to enjoy music, style, fashion, movies – with more depth, with more insight - as a consequence of the thinking inside The Face."
The former assistant editor said: "I grew up reading The Face cover to cover as a teenager in suburban London, reading the work of different journalists."When I became an editor there, I had the same spirit – that you could think about both small things in terms of fashion trend but you could set them within the same context as thinking about quite large things like post-structuralist French philosophy, post-modernism, speculative fiction.
"These very large ideas which ostensibly shouldn't necessarily have had a place next to thinking about new styles and new trends. I think the magazine was one of the first places to take seriously both the small things and big things simultaneously."
The Face was started by Nick Logan, formerly editor of New Musical Express (NME) and creator of teen music magazine, Smash Hits.But who was it aimed at?
A US commentator said to me afterwards: "That was all for US domestic consumption."The vice president did, however, go on to meet the embattled Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who did his best to sound positive.
The pair had "a good conversation", according to Zelensky, who said it marked "our first meeting, not last, I'm sure". The Ukrainian leader emphasised the need for Washington and Kyiv to speak more and work together "to prepare the plan [on] how to stop Putin and finish the war"."We want, really, we want peace very much. But we need real security guarantees," Zelensky added.