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Greening the Met Gala through Oxford fashion

With Anna Wintour trotting around New York and cosying up with Lauren Sanchez Bezos, it is no surprise that the 2026 Met Gala is hitting highly controversial seas. The...

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Set to bloom: The return of the floral print

“Florals? For spring? Groundbreaking.” So speaks the withering sarcasm of Miranda Priestly in The...

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Stitching the world together: GFC’s London Fashion Week show

A few weeks ago we, the Cherwell fashion editors, were lucky enough to be extended an invite by the Global Fashion Collective to their London Fashion Week show.

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Seeped in nostalgia: ‘Things I Know To Be True’ reviewed

Lighthouse Productions' 'Things I Know to Be True' had high expectations to meet. Put frankly, they nailed it.

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‘The Lost Properties of Love’ by Sophie Ratcliffe

'treads a fine line between a deeply personal memoir [...] and an academic exploration'

Time to tilt the lens – why is the fashion industry ignoring disability?

Part 1 of a two-part series With crammed shops, an almost complete absence of disabled people on catwalks and a lack of inclusive products, the...

Luxury fashion in 2019- will it ever be ‘accessible’?

Anna Wintour once said that one of the things she adored most about the fashion industry is its constant drive to evolve and its...

The Sensuality of Female Loneliness

Erica Garza’s memoir, Getting Off, about her struggle with porn and sex addiction concludes with her looking back on a photograph on her as...

Is English football being overtaken by the far-right?

At the England-Netherlands Nations League semi-final on 6th June, EDL founder Tommy Robinson (real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) was filmed punching an England fan outside...

Frequencies and what they do to you

A primer to the niche field of "sound art"

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Reviewing Sayaka Murata's 'Convenience Store Woman' (Granta, 2019)

We need to talk about Trump: the politicisation of Late-Night Comedy

The claws are out - Late-Night comedyis officially taking on the White House.

Wadham’s Race Symposium: has British multiculturalism failed?

Wadham's Race Symposium panel explored the ideas and expression of multiculturalism and race relations in art.

Review: The Roaring Girl – ‘a ground-breaking proto-feminist piece of theatre’

With cross-dressing, feminist themes and a feisty soundtrack, The Roaring Girl proves a fifth week delight

Female Comedians Finding the Funny in the Filth

The term ‘female comedians’ is a, well, funny one. Should we still be so insistently adding the ‘female’ part? Female comedians are comedians. But...

Being under the spell of Harry Potter

An overview of the outrageous content of the Fangasm podcast

The Funny/Not Funny Exercise

A review of David Sedaris' 'Calypso' (Little, Brown, 2018)

Review: Your Little Play – ‘a tragic storyline which by now seems all too familiar’

Nightjar Theatre's production tackles themes that are particularly pertinent to our time

50 years since Bicycle Thieves: the Italian neo-realist nightmare still resonates

The most iconic image to come out of Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves is that of a disgruntled man sat on the pavement with a...

The corruptability of ‘bright, young things’

Sebastian Flyte stumbling through a quad, vomiting through a window, and then taking exquisite care with his teddy bear’s hair; the fictional Riot Club...

Editing out excess

The phenomenon of excess in media is relatively modern. The notion of creating excess, then refining the total media into a coherent project, is...

Shakespeare Done to Death?

In the wake of the Emma Rice 'scandal' at the Globe, we examine why we keep treading old boards.

The Sackler Family’s Dishonest Donations

It can be extremely difficult to separate art from its context. To inherit benefits from a patron essentially endorses the methods which they have...

The Sweet Smell of Excess

"While the social implications of excessive behaviour seem real and uncomfortable, then, the extent to which films tend to deal with these is, we surely have to admit, limited."

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Greening the Met Gala through Oxford fashion

Set to bloom: The return of the floral print

Stitching the world together: GFC’s London Fashion Week show

Seeped in nostalgia: ‘Things I Know To Be True’ reviewed

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