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Image credit: Prudence Earl. Description: racks of colourful clothing in a shop. In Oxford, aside from academic necessity, I love going to lectures just to see what people are wearing, to take part in the silent communication that takes place through the language of clothes. That is how I see fashion – as being fundamentally […]
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Image credit: Annie Spratt. Description: a craftsman creating small molds for silversmithing. ‘Handmade in Britain’ was established in 2007 to provide a creative platform to support and promote design and craft talent in the UK. Their commitment to promoting the work of talented makers, designers and craftspeople has seen already led them to establish annual […]
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It was in 1871 that John Ruskin, Oxford’s first Slade Professor, opened his School of Drawing, intending to develop a course for the University that would lead to a degree in art. Originally housed in the University Galleries, the school eventually moved to its current home on the High Street in 1975, where it was […]
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I’ve been to the river in a village on the outskirts of town only three times in my long life. The first time was one of my happiest days, and the second one of my most miserable. The third visit, of course, fell somewhere in between.
Continue ReadingWhat drew you to working at XXY Magazine? I studied Fine Art before I became enamored with fashion. In the beginning, I got into fashion because the girls on the courses were always pretty. I had no knowledge at all about the inner workings of the fashion world; I thought Givenchy was a patisserie. I […]
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