Thursday 4th June 2026

Culture

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.

Greening the Met Gala through Oxford fashion

With Anna Wintour trotting around New York and cosying up with Lauren Sanchez Bezos,...

Valentino Couture 2010

Anahit Behrooz examines Valentino's latest couture offering and finds it lacking

Secret diary of a windsurfing instructor

Week 1: Front Loops and Frappés

Something for everyone?

Chris Graham considers whether there is anything a man could love about haute couture.

Our Man in Southern Lebanon

Chris Graham meets the Lebanese military and has lunch with Hezbollah.

Our Man in Beirut, Lebanon

Chris Graham runs apace with life in a battle-scarred city.

Hometown: Dedham, Essex

A cliché of the English rural picturesque?

You think you’re so smart

Mary Franklin argues that BBMing is the new talking, while Theo Merz decidedly sticks with the retro.

A week without make-up

Chloe Treger braves the Oxford Association of Beholders and puts her 'natural' beauty to the test.

Blind date: Where are they now?

Remember that huge emotional investment you made in our couples? Well, now you can see whether it was worth it.

Top Five: Things to do this summer

Because we know you lot can't do anything without our help

Dine Hard: Old Parsonage

Parents coming to town? You could do worse.

Project Bike Theft

The only thing easier than reading Geography at Oxford is stealing a bike.

A Hull of a good band

Matt Perkins talks 'oop North' with Dave Hemmingway of The Beautiful South

From Russia with LOL

Alex du Sautoy gets entangled in the family affair of Merton’s Garden Play... Chekhov style.

Dirty sexy Shakespeare

Oliver Moody watches the slickest of rom-coms and the sickest of revenge tragedies

In praise of the older woman

Madeline Wright finds the erect nipples and obsessive self interest of this 'classic' uninspiring

Does work make you happy?

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' is an intriguing but incomplete exhibition, says Violet Hudson

Interview: Edwina Currie

Edwina Currie talks threesomes, feminism and Major's intellectual shortcomings with Theo Merz

Interview: Givenchy

Agnes Meath Baker discovers it is better to Give-nchy than to recieve

Hometown: Norwich, Norfolk

In Norwich, no one can hear you scream.

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