Culture

Styling by the book: Oxford’s secret fashion rules

It often feels as if the so-called ‘Oxford bubble’ is full of binaries: commoners and scholars, undergraduate and postgraduate, town and gown. These dualities are neatly emblematised through the...

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Cultural fashion at the Queen’s confluence dinner

Not often do I get to break out the Middle Eastern kaftan hanging idle...

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Common threads: Historical fashion and its lessons for our time

When we think of historical fashion, images of towering wigs, tight-laced corsets, heavy brocades...

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Food, fashion, and escapism in a cost of living crisis

Food costs have been front and centre in newsreels as of recent months, whether...

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Analysing men, makeup, and masculinity

Beauty correspondent Beth Brand investigates the outdated stigma surrounding the male beauty industry

Oxford University is a risky investment

Michael Shao debates whether he would add the University of Oxford to his hypothetical portfolio of investments

The art of sex in fashion at the Met

Eleanor Birdsall-Smith reviews the diverse turn out at this year’s Met gala

Warhol and the importance of social exchange

Mia Neafcy explores the notion of consumerism in American capitalist society

Culture is a prop used to please the privileged

Kir West-Hunter gives a personal insight into the effects of cultural appropriation within white-washed fashion and beauty industries

Music without Borders

Prateek Alkesh sings the praises of sufi music in Bollywood

Shed your prejudice and free the Croc

Chloe Dootson-Graube investigates the outdated stigma surrounding fashion’s worst nightmare

Blind Date: “It soon became apparent that we were quite different people”

George Dickinson and Laura Savage bond over politics, yoga, and disappointing ale

Why are we against fun in fashion?

Daisy Chandley explores the problems that surround the fashion industry’s recent disdain for the big, the bright, and the ugly

‘The Parisian’ is a barrier to progressive fashion

William Hosie criticises the conservative approach to fashion and politics in modern France

Don slams fivers’ grammar

Oxford academic criticises Bank of England for "efforts to dumb down" the English language

Inside Vogue with Alexandra Shulman

Megan Husain gets a tantalising glimpse into fashion history as the Vogue editor-in-chief discusses her new book, Inside Vogue: A Diary of My 100th Year