Sunday 14th June 2026

Culture

Room on the pitch: Football fans and feminine fashion

With the FIFA World Cup 2026 having just begun, I’m reminded of a question a friend once asked the group chat: “If I buy a Lionesses shirt, do you guys think I’ll be called a pick-me?”
Culture Emma Heagney -

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."
Culture Cerys Bennison -

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.
Culture Emma Heagney and Amy Lawson -

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.
Culture Victoria Corfield -
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Feminism and fashion with Leomie Anderson

Nicole Rayment gets an insight into the life of a truly atypical Victoria’s Secret Angel, discussing the world of fashion and her new brand LAPP

Debunking the myth behind organic beauty

Beth Brand investigates the rising trend of ‘organic’ beauty and asks if we should be more sceptical

Woody Harrelson, lost in Oxford

Woody Harrelson dissects new film Lost in London, comedy, drugs, and global warming with Megan Husain and Olivia Webster

“Careless” press pigeonholes artists that deserve far more

Anoushka Kavanagh warns against letting Brexit derail the conversation around race and art

Class and conflict in the works of Leonora Carrington

Priya Khaira-Hanks explores the surrealist's attempt to come to terms with her class identity

“A moving and engaging performance… beyond the level of most student drama”

Freddie Crowley is impressed by the professionalism and intensity of the dystopian drama POMONA at the Keble O'Reilly this week

Analysing men, makeup, and masculinity

Beauty correspondent Beth Brand investigates the outdated stigma surrounding the male beauty industry

Oxford University is a risky investment

Michael Shao debates whether he would add the University of Oxford to his hypothetical portfolio of investments

The art of sex in fashion at the Met

Eleanor Birdsall-Smith reviews the diverse turn out at this year’s Met gala

Warhol and the importance of social exchange

Mia Neafcy explores the notion of consumerism in American capitalist society

Culture is a prop used to please the privileged

Kir West-Hunter gives a personal insight into the effects of cultural appropriation within white-washed fashion and beauty industries

Music without Borders

Prateek Alkesh sings the praises of sufi music in Bollywood

Shed your prejudice and free the Croc

Chloe Dootson-Graube investigates the outdated stigma surrounding fashion’s worst nightmare

Blind Date: “It soon became apparent that we were quite different people”

George Dickinson and Laura Savage bond over politics, yoga, and disappointing ale

Why are we against fun in fashion?

Daisy Chandley explores the problems that surround the fashion industry’s recent disdain for the big, the bright, and the ugly

‘The Parisian’ is a barrier to progressive fashion

William Hosie criticises the conservative approach to fashion and politics in modern France

Don slams fivers’ grammar

Oxford academic criticises Bank of England for "efforts to dumb down" the English language

Inside Vogue with Alexandra Shulman

Megan Husain gets a tantalising glimpse into fashion history as the Vogue editor-in-chief discusses her new book, Inside Vogue: A Diary of My 100th Year

Fashion in Paris is moving in the right direction

Chloe Dootson-Graube takes a more optimistic view on the future of Parisian fashion

The fabric of fashion shapes the fabric of our society

Maninder Sachdeva discusses the impact of cultural diversity in the fashion world
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