Sunday 14th September 2025

Fashion

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...

Cultural fashion at the Queen’s confluence dinner

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

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...

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

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

Luxury in Crisis

"The future looks bleak – but that’s no reason not to make the present a little less unbearable."

Vivienne Westwood: Cultural Provocateur and True Original

Iseult de Mallet Burgess looks back on the life and work of the late icon, activist, and trailblazer Dame Vivienne Westwood.

Christian Girl Autumn : hot or hated ?

"Just as in any form of creative form of self-expression, there is never and there will never be a completely original thought"

Ruminations on Tokyo fashion

"Tokyo and its style have certainly left a deep impression on me"

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