Wednesday 4th June 2025

Culture

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 and voluminous skirts often spring to mind – ornate, impractical, and rooted firmly in the unenlightened...

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

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

Oxford Fashion Gala’s ‘Metamorphosis’ reflects the beauty of change

The Oxford Fashion Gala was back and bigger than ever, with a larger venue,...

Tailoring expectations: Couture culture shocks

Academia has a historic relationship with fashion, both officially and unofficially. The former manifests...

On make-up and mentality

Emily Pritchard highlights the growing dependence on make-up and its unrealistic expectations

The Fissures Of Fashion’s Gender Conventions

Emmanuelle Soffe discusses the break in gender precepts at Milan and Paris Men's Fashion Week 2015

Shark Tales S5E5 – The Finale

Crowds of Oxonians brave Park End to say farewell to Bex Watson in her final episode of Shark Tales

Fashion Matters: Homophobia and Homoeroticism

Sam Joyce argues that menswear campaigns are hugely damaging

Travelling to the Seventies

Ahead of the long vac, Cherwell fashion took a trip down Cowley Road to Cafe Tarifa for our seventies editorial

The blogging business according to Kayture

Rosie Gaunt interviews Kristina Bazan and her ‘blogger manager’ James Chardon

An interview with Alexandra Shulman

Rosie Gaunt talks fashion with the Editor-in-Chief of British Vogue

Profile: Alexandra Shulman

Rosie Gaunt talks fashion with the Editor of British Vogue, Alexandra Shulman

Punting to the Riviera

Cherwell Fashion brings French Riviera trends to Oxford

CherwellTV: Slam Poetry for Oxford Dignity Drive

CherwellTV talks to the organisers of a slam poetry event aimed at ending the prejudice around menstruation

CherwellTV: What does it mean to be happy?

Oxford Students for Happiness present a talk on what it means to be happy.

CherwellTV: Oxford Sirens Showcase

Oxford University's coed competitive cheerleading squad, the Sirens, gives us an amazing, acrobatic display of talent.

General Election: the morning after

On the morning after the general election, Cherwell took to the street to survey student reactions to a Tory government

Shark Tales S5E4

Bex Watson wades her way through the fumes of nicotine and conflict that pervade her fourth episode of Shark Tales.

Caroline Rush on the British fashion industry

Rosie Gaunt interviews the Chief Executive of the British Fashion Council

Tumblr: Where aesthetics meets activism

Sam Joyce discusses the impact of social media on the modelling industry

CherwellTV: Wadstock 2015 – Music and Vibes

Cherwell investigates the music and fashion scene at this year's Wadstock festival

Here’s how to style your career in fashion

Niluka Kavanagh talks to Elle magazine’s Fashion Director, Anne-Marie-Curtis

CherwellTV: General Election – The Morning After

On the morning after the general election, Cherwell takes to the street to survey student reactions to a Tory government

Fashion Matters

Beth Davies-Kumadiro argues for new beauty ideals

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