Sunday 8th 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...

The life-saving little black dress

What to wear when you've got nothing to wear..

Benefactor Fashion Charity Show

Cherwell talks fashion no-nos and onesies with an organiser and model from the Benefactor Charity Fashion show.

Shark Tales – Series 3 – Episode 3

Alexander Fox talks Crimea, Scotland and Cambridge in this week's Shark Tales.

International Women’s Day

Cherwell talks to Oxford Students' Oxfam Group about International Women's Day and the events which have been taking place in Radcliffe Square.

Review: Oxford Fashion Week – The Lingerie Show

Cherwell Fashion went along to the show - what was the verdict?

Velvet Nights

Cherwell Fashion Photoshoot: Issue 5

Cherworld – Trenton resurfaces

As the boat race disrupter is invited to Oxford to speak about the right to protest, Anthony and Anna look back at his treatment by the universities and the media since he shot to fame in 2012

Review: Oxford Fashion Week 2014 – High Street Show

Cherwell went down to the opening show of the sixth annual Oxford Fashion Week, to find out the latest high street trends.

The Oscars 2014 – Cherwell’s Best Dressed

On Sunday 2nd March, the stars flocked to LA for the 86th Academy Awards - here are our favourite looks...

Town v Gown boxing at the Oxford Union

OUABC organise the annual fights with clubs invited from around the country. The result is 6-3 to the gown!

Subject Fashion

Can you tell what someone studies just by what they wear? Cherwell finds out.

Cherworld – Exe-terrible

As Exeter students go on hall strike to protest crippling catering charges, Anthony and Anna wonder whether something should be done to close the gap between rich and poor colleges

Shark Tales – Series 3 Episode 2

Alexander Fox returns for another curious incident of the drunks in the night-time

Cherwell Investigates Sexism in Oxford

In light of Robin Lane Fox's recent comment that a woman's evening dress should be 'an apparently stormable fortress', Cherwell asked students attending the Union Ball about sexism and the implications of this statement.

Ceci n’est pas une femme.

Cherwell Fashion photoshoot: Issue 4

L’Inspiration de Paris

Cherwell Fashion photoshoot: Issue 2

Colour Clash

Photographer - Kate Hodkinson Stylist - Rebecca Borthwick Models - Jasmine Ko & Esme Bayar

Interview: General Michael Hayden

Cherwell speaks to Michael Hayden about Edward Snowden and whistleblowing.

Cherworld — Here Comes The Sun

As Merton College unsubscribe from the Sun newspaper in protest at Page 3, Anthony and Anna discuss whether colleges gain or lose out by depriving themselves of Britain's best loved red-top.

Oxford Imps – The 10th Anniversary

The Oxford Imps preview their Thursday spectacular in the giant New Theatre, Oxford

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