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It is a fickle world, the fashion world. One where ambition, talent and hard work have been considered for decades the passepartout to success. Figures like Giorgio Armani are still a great inspiration to young girls and boys who live surrounded by stashes of Vogue and dream of conquering Paris. More than fifty years ago […]
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In many ways the ideal of the bikini body is like the Gold standard of currency. Many people carry an intimation of this value, though it doesn’t look quite the same and society doesn’t deem it to be the same standard as the reserves. Whilst the idea of a stock of females with the perfect […]
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Many people underestimate the fashion industry and write it off as “fluffy” or imagine it to be dominated by a group of stiletto clad bitches (otherwise known as the clackers in the Devil Wears Prada). So this term the OxStu will be running a series of interviews with people involved in an array of jobs […]
Continue ReadingThere’s a moment in The September Issue (a feature-length documentary following the production of US Vogue’s September edition) that always makes me an odd mixture of happy and concerned. Whilst shooting couture against the backdrop of Versailles, one member of the team arrives on set with a box of luxury strawberry tarts; huge, colourful, […]
Continue ReadingIsabella Blow, Alexander McQueen, Ruslana Korshunova and now L’Wren Scott: all people working in the fashion industry who, as far as we know, committed suicide. The fashion industry is, sadly, all too used to burying its own in circumstances like these. Alongside all the high glamour, excitement and fun of the business, there is an […]
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