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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?”

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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."

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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.

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To sell your face

Last summer, as fashion journalists covering the London Emerging Designer Awards, my co-editor and I thought that the halfway drinks reception would be the...

A Moment of Enchantment

The Sheldonian Theatre and its surroundings serve as perfect backdrop for Cherwell's take on formal wear for the upcoming balls

Dress guide to Oxford balls

Kate Asquith offers suggestions on what to wear for the balls in Trinity 2016

A very stressful lunch

The sun is high in the sky and after a long arduous morning filled with reading and writing your stomach starts to rumble. Normally...

The Tabs beat Oxford to win Varsity Ice Hockey 2016

Cherwell takes to the ice to watch Oxford's crushing defeat in their last match of the season.

The Big Referendum Blog – 1

In the lead up to the Referendum, Cherwell has decided to try and gather a lot of information in one place and keep you...

Want to run a business next year?

Oxford Student Publications Ltd (OSPL) is an entirely student-run company that owns some of Oxford’s most prestigious and long-running publications, including Cherwell, The ISIS...

The utter pointlessness of being alive

Matt Roberts considers the mindless inevitability of his life in love, religion and personal worth

John Mann MP addresses Antisemitism with OULC

John Mann MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group against Antisemitism, addressed OULC on Monday. He stressed the need of OULC to accept the...

Shops to try in Oxford

Alice Baldock introduces fresh options for shopping clothing, gifts and accessories outside of the chain shop heaven of Cornmarket Street

Set for Summer

The coming of May took Cherwell to the University of Oxford Botanic Garden to celebrate vivid spring hues

Set for Summer

The coming of May took Cherwell to the University of Oxford Botanic Garden to help celebrate vivid spring hues. Photography: Richard Wakefield Models: Eleanor McCann &...

Athlete of the Week: William Szymanski

Cherwell Sport discuss the rising popularity of American Football in the UK with the Oxford Lancers quarterback

Unheard Oxford: Will Barker, assistant manager at the Duke of Cambridge

Another view on the dreaming spires. This week, Dan Sutton talks to the assistant manager at the Duke of Cambridge about big bills and espresso martinis