Culture

Tailoring expectations: Couture culture shocks

Academia has a historic relationship with fashion, both officially and unofficially. The former manifests itself in Oxford’s sub fusc – mounting costs and pressure of tradition aside, it’s at...
Fashion Emma Heagney -

No-buy Trinity: A guide to buying less and creating more

For Oxford students, the start of Trinity marks not just the start of the...
Fashion Faye Chang -

Cherubs Grow On Trees: Atmospheric student filmmaking

Making short films is hard. You have anything between two and 20 minutes to...
Culture Lara Machado -

Cheap cashmere in freezing February

Cashmere is a luxury fibre, warm in winter, sustainable, but you may have been...
Fashion Martha Gathercole -
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Larry: The Real Bernie Bro

Håvard Yttredal speaks with Larry Sanders, Bernie’s brother, about growing up in Brooklyn’s radical Jewish community, their family, and why he wants Bernie supporters abroad to vote in the Democratic Global Primary.

Cherwell’s Declassified Oxford Clubbing Fashion Guide

A knitted turtleneck and mum jeans.  This is an outfit for running errands; these are items of clothing you grab from your floor on a...

If music be the food of love, prey on

There are two types of Korean faces that generally appear in the Western media. One is thin, chiselled, and attached to a K-pop star;...

Literary Blackface

When the largest book retailer in the United States, Barnes & Noble, launched their so-called Diverse Editions initiative in honour of Black History Month,...

Review: Caging Skies and Jojo Rabbit

When depicting the world and ideology of Nazi-Germany, the theme of childhood or the child-like figure is quite a well-used one. Key examples include...

Review: Kafka’s Dick

When one mentions the play, Kafka’s Dick, needless to say, it raises a few eyebrows (at least in my experience). Though the title has some relevance...

Ignoring the International

Parasite must surely be one of the most remarkable films of this year’s awards season. Director Bong Joon Ho’s anti-capitalist satire and thriller has...

Once Upon A Time in Hollywood Review

If you were to ask someone familiar with Quentin Tarantino to name the defining features of his films, they would probably mention the dialogue,...

‘Because I Can’: Remembering Diet Coke’s dystopian rebrand in our 2020 dystopia

‘Coca-Cola found a way to convince millennials to drink Diet Coke’ – Qartz.com. ‘An authentic, self-aware Diet Coke that is really inclusive’ – Danielle Henry,...

Queer Theory

As we go into LGBT+ History Month, many figures throughout history - modern or not - are looked upon and celebrated, and rightly so....

TOP TEN BEST FILMS FOR VALENTINE’S DAY

Maybe you are the kind of person who avoids participating in even a card exchange when February 14th rolls around each year in a...

Review: ÜnkelGårf

Planning a holiday soon? Why not visit the prosperous, democratic and perpetually joyful nation of Orgislavia? They’ve hosted the Olympics for hundreds of years...

Sharing is Caring

Looking back through old photos a few weeks ago, I found a screenshot of a message dated 16th September 2017 – a Saturday afternoon...

Marika Hackman and queer sexuality in music

Bolshy, brazen and unapologetically sexual – in Oxford, the first group of people to spring to mind from this description is likely to be...

Oscars 2020 Roundup

It is difficult to argue that the winners of Academy Awards in a certain year still represent that year’s greatest achievements in cinema. Debates...

Review: Wire’s ‘Mind Hive’

Wire are a band that don’t like nostalgia, unlike most mainstream cultural figures. So much so, that they have been known to take...

Scrap the rhetoric: simplifying our response to food waste

As with so many other environmental issues, more and more people are becoming aware of the environmental strain created by food waste, and the...

Profile: Robert Icke

“Anybody working in theatre now must be engaged with the question of whether it will survive”. It’s immediately clear from his first remarks in...

Dump Soup

Savannah Hawley introduces a comforting recipe to use up your leftovers In the past several years, the public has seemingly woken up to the disturbing...

Sustainable Style To Dye For

Muted oranges, deep browns and soft berry pinks make up the childhood palette of New York-based designer, Emily Dawn Long. With a growing Instagram...
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