Wednesday 17th June 2026

Culture

Room on the pitch: Football fans and feminine fashion

With the FIFA World Cup 2026 having just begun, I’m reminded of a question a friend once asked the group chat: “If I buy a Lionesses shirt, do you guys think I’ll be called a pick-me?”

Colour and codification: Eleanor Medhurst on queer fashion

"There’s a lot of symbolism within queer fashion: ways to speak with our appearance when it hasn’t always been safe or possible to share our identities out loud."

Glamour and gossip: Oxford Fashion Society’s ‘Women in Fashion’

Is there hope for young journalists in the midst of an unemployment crisis, funding cuts to arts-based degrees, and the unknowns of AI? Yes, Julia and Daisy think, but it is by far the hardest time to be a new fashion journalist.

Galliano for the masses (on the Zara sale rack)

The fashion world is mourning the loss of John Galliano. Not a literal death, but something closer to a fall from grace.

Science is not just for boys

What are the origins of the gender gap in Stem subjects at Oxford?

WATCH: Malala Yousafzai wins charity slap bet

The Nobel Peace Prize winner claimed her slap was "like a rose petal touching [the Charities Rep's] face"

Wadham trials smoking restriction in Trinity

Wadham joins St Hugh's, St Edmund's Hall, and other colleges in limiting or banning smoking on campus

Don’t Look Back in Anger

The 90s was undoubtedly the greatest film decade, writes Josh Travers

Inequality at universities is a symptom, not a cause

Social injustice occurs before students even apply

The Taste of Success

Julia Alsop speaks to MasterChef finalist and Oxford PhD student, Nawamin Pinpathomrat

The Making of Pray it Doesn’t Rain

Nabeela Zaman addresses the surge of homelessness in Oxford in her documentary Pray it Doesn't Rain.

Life without Uncle Ben

Rediscovering the fun of cooking from scratch is one of the best things about being away from Oxford

Do anti-fur protesters really have an effect?

Will fashion ever wise up to anti-fur sentiments?

Skinny jeans are so last year

Video may have killed the radio star, but wide-leg killed the skinny jean.

Givenchy: Luxury in each detail

Does the classicism of Givenchy have universal appeal?

Men’s fashion or mother’s fashion?

Should a mother's love or a father's respect extend to the wardrobe?

Oxford scientists receive £1m for heart defect research

Scientists awarded nearly £1m to determine the causes of congenital heart disease

The film at the centre of India’s free speech debate

The future of Bollywood rests on the response to controversial film Padmaavat

Cabinets of Curiosities

Cherwell Fashion takes to a unique venue to explore vintage fashion in practice.

The Lady Downstairs

Does the bush exist with only God to judge it?

Booze Cruise: Balliol Combine Harvester

Balliol's 'Combine Harvester' is as lethal as it sounds

London Proud

Burberry CEO Christopher Bailey’s contribution - to fashion, music, charity, and the LQBTQ+ community- is priceless.

Adwoa Aboah: Dreamgirl

Adwoa Aboah is one of the best role models that the fashion industry has ever produced.

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