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Brown boots, black boots, and the politics of autumn style

Autumn always brings a question of existential importance: brown boots or black boots? It’s more than a colour choice; it’s a subtle declaration of intent. Fashion might be dismissed...

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“You’re going to make mistakes”: Katie Robinson on fashion and sustainability

Katie Robinson is a sustainable fashion journalist, content creator, and campaigner, with experience working...

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Alternative Oxford: The changing stereotypes surrounding body modifications

Cienna Jennings visits Oxford’s renowned tattoo and piercings studio, Tigerlily, to speak with the...

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Fashion around Oxford – Iggy Clarke

Iggy Clarke, the president of the 2025 Oxford Fashion Gala, shares her style secrets and where she’s shopping right now.

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Where Winx went wrong

I’m sure that Winx Fate: The Winx Saga is probably a perfectly acceptable generic action series. But in ignoring the fashion of Winx Club, the creators did not even attempt to understand what fans loved and what made it special.

Depop photo-op: #y2k edition

Photographer: Laetitia Dewavrin Models: Rebeka Shipkolye and Jess Curry

Seen and not heard: the film industry’s troubled relationship with female directors

Scarlett Colquitt responds to the claim that "women directed films have a softer tone" with an examination of role of female directors in today's film industry.

Dip your toe into Schitt’s Creek

Schitt’s Creek is a show where the main character talks to her many, many wigs. It is a show which manages to make a...

Emma Chamberlain and the changing face of fashion

By embracing the fun in fashion, she inspires her viewers to do the same.

Making “Magic”: A Revival of an Edwardian Fantasy-Genre Play

Magic lends itself well to the online format. It is a play of voices, of witty exchanges and mystifying, unseen events. The audience is called on to construct the setting from their imagination, inspired by the actors and the sound effects, resulting in a final product which is a collaboration between players and listeners.

Literary Loves: What fictional romance has taught me about real-life relationships

For the first 17 years of my life, I felt like everything I knew about love I learned from books. Sure, as a self-conscious...

Fun Home?

CW: sexual assault, child abuse, suicide, homophobia. 2015 was a great year in the history of musical theatre, possibly the greatest year of this century...

Alice Phoebe Lou: A Listener’s Guide

"What kind of living is this? I don't wanna simply exist. I wanna punch with my fists…grab life by her wrists…and say I want this". After lockdown number three was announced, the lyrics hit me in a completely new way, as if I was listening to the song for the first time again.

Review: ‘Breaking and Mending’ by Joanna Cannon

For me, it is Cannon’s complete honesty and authenticity which make this an astounding read ... 'Breaking and Mending' is the perfect book to read as a medical student, a doctor, or anyone who wants to have their heart warmed by tales of genuine compassion and kindness.

10 Things Blair Waldorf taught Us About Fashion

Let’s remember the icon that is Blair Waldorf and everything she taught us about fashion over the five years she blessed our screens

Zoom cuppers – a new sub-genre of theatre?

This was an entirely new experience, a mode of art barely explored before 2020 and something that I believed would benefit me to be a part of.

The comedy bug

No sympathy laughs from your mate when the joke doesn’t quite land; no in-jokes to fall back on; no new haircut to make fun of. Comedy is a savage mistress.

Pandemic Projects: Oxford and Beyond

For many of us students, this term will happen from home and from behind our screens. In most cases, this means less social interaction,...

Delusions of grandeur: why Prada’s new advertising campaign does intellectual fashion a disservice

when they lay claim to a depth they do not obviously possess it makes it harder to take seriously

The Most Anticipated Books of 2021

In light of the disaster that was 2020, many of us are looking towards 2021 with hope. Amongst the reasons to be excited about...

Rice-cakes

'a few more days of worrying about weddings, wondering why we seem to copy the lives of those we wish would love us'

hands/face/space

"how we feel now must be the way that stars feel all their lives"

Promising Young Woman: what is female rage?

‘Promising Young Woman’ burst into the headlines a few weeks ago over the controversy surrounding the language of a ‘Variety’ reviewer who last year,...

“Here Comes Your” Alt-Rock

"Alt-rock is characterised by experimentation with texture, timbre, and structure, especially drawing on the raw, distorted punk rock sounds and new wave’s energetic appeal." Jimmy Brewer takes a look back at five bands who defined the sound of the genre.

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Culture

Brown boots, black boots, and the politics of autumn style

“You’re going to make mistakes”: Katie Robinson on fashion and sustainability

Alternative Oxford: The changing stereotypes surrounding body modifications

Fashion around Oxford – Iggy Clarke

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