Saturday 13th 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?”

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."

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.

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.

Rhodes Must Fall protest outside Oriel

Oriel College's Vice Provost personally received a petition demanding that the college tear down its statue of Cecil Rhodes

Interview with Dian Gomes

Cherwell Fashion talk to the managing director of Slimline Ltd, Victoria's Secret leading suppliers, on ethical working conditions and body image

TDS Shoot

The Design Studio Hawarden come to Oxford to shoot with Cherwell Fashion

Interview: The Design Studio

Emmanuelle Soffe talks to designer Lettie Pattinson about the rise of TDS

New App on the Block?

Kate Murrant reviews Alexa Chung's latest project: fashion app Villoid

The Champagne Social: The Guild Goes Grand

Anietie Ekanem gives us an insight into some of the outfits at The Oxford's Guild's champagne social

Milestones: Sympathy for the Devil

This week, Samuel Dunnett worships at the altar of the Rolling Stone’s ‘Sympathy for The Devil’ and its lasting legacy for satanism in music

The Coloured Market

Cherwell fashion takes two models, two versatile staples and creates six great outfits

Oxford University in oil donor controversy

University retains donation despite company subsidiary receiving criminal fine

A view from the Cheap Seat- Third Week MT 15

'Youth... a time when an actor becomes an actor' - except if you are Cherwell Stage Critic Mark Barclay

How fashion fell for feminism

Lottie Jackson discusses Sartorial Suffrage and ‘faux-feminism’ at Paris FW 2015

The Media And Self-Worth

Emmanuelle Soffe discusses weight discrimination and the negative effects of the media

A View From the Cheap Seat

Failed Actor, Super Bitch critic Mark Barclay takes us through second week's theatrical offerings

Cherworld: Do Conservatives need conserving?

In the first episode of Cherworld's triumphant return, Luke Barratt and Tom Carter discuss whether Tories are unfairly vilified at Oxford

High Hopes, Falling Leaves

Combine russet hues with soft monochrome textures for a very Oxford take on October

An interview with Miroslava Duma

Rosie Gaunt interviews street style tsarina turned media mogul Miroslava Duma

Jez Corbyn- Do We Care What He Wears?

Should we? Emily Pritchard asks about the politics behind the pullovers

Preview: Oxford Fashion Week

Emmanuelle Soffe previews the upcoming Oxford Fashion Week 2015

Review: London Emerging Designers Awards

Emily Pritchard reviews a new event on the London fashion scene

We’re Bored in the Great Outdoors

Running from the cops in our black bikini tops screaming, “Get us while we're hot! Get us while we’re hot!”

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