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Where have all the colours gone?
Image description: A man in brown trousers wear brightly coloured Nike shoes and stands one-foot hanging over the edge of a concrete block It is safe to say that England’s favourite colour is blue, or more specifically, navy blue. If you don’t have something navy in your wardrobe, you haven’t looked hard enough. Dark, plain, […]
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The Essence of Camp: The 2019 Met Gala
Image description: The Metropolitan Museum, New York. It’s that time of year again, where an exclusive set of celebrities with designing giants behind them are invited to a themed ball based around the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute’s annual fashion exhibit and anyone with more than a passing interest in fashion takes to the […]
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Lecture sketches: momentary flight from the intellectual
Part of me loves going to lectures that I know are not 100% relevant for my papers. Perhaps the lecturer will talk about an author I’m not going to be examined on in finals, allowing me a few guilt free minutes of ecstatic freedom to scribble dresses. I don’t sit too close to the front, […]
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Why Parisian style reigns supreme
The trademark image of the Française lives on to this day. And we Brits have been fascinated for decades, ever since the heyday of the (non-)Parisienne par excellence: Jane Birkin. The French have a joke: how do you spot an English girl? By the length of her skirt. Or her level of intoxication. Their wit […]
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Paris Couture Week and the future of ‘street style’
As a Brit in Paris, I often find myself resorting to meteorological metaphor as a means of expression. And fashion is no exception. Was I not blessed, then, when Tuesday’s flurry of snow, a rendez-vous of British atmospheric disturbance and cold Scandi air, left Paris a veritable melting pot of cool, in more senses than […]
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Inspired design: a gift guide for the art and literature lover
A selection of items from museum shops, inspired by works of art and literature, that would make excellent gifts for friends and family. Ai Wei Wei Eco Bag, £6.50 This bag takes inspiration from a series of photographs by Ai Wei Wei, in which he gives the finger to monuments that embody authority, empire and […]
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Acts of self-creation: the art of day-to-day fashion
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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The wonderful everyday: the creative potential of day-to-day fashion
Image Credit: khfalk-Description-Fashion Magazines 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 about communication and connection between human beings. I […]
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Spotlight: Letitia Wright
This year’s theme, focussing specifically on “catholic imagination”, did not allow for significant leeway when it came to its interpretations — almost automatically, one thinks of the Vatican and Europe when one thinks of Catholicism. Indeed, the response of most attendees of the Gala seemed to be rather eurocentric — even Rihanna was dressed (albeit […]
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The MetGala: Heavenly Bodies
The theme of the 2018 Met Gala – Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination – has had some mixed reviews within and without of the Catholic community, with diverse opinions across the board. The public display of papal artefacts alongside designer outfits might seem disrespectful, reducing Catholicism to a fashion accessory. Celebrities bearing halos, […]
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OxStu’s festival essentials
In the wake of Wadstock and Coachella, the festival season is soon to be upon us. Thus, it seems only appropriate for OxStu Fashion to discuss some key essentials for our favourite season. Festival fashion can be seen through the likes of celebrities such as Vanessa Hudgens as well as a multitude of fashion bloggers, […]
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Celebrities turning fashion designers
In the current celebrity cult climate, famous people turning fashion designers comes as no surprise. Established fashion critic Suzy Menkes wrote in 2012 that “the idea that anyone can be a designer is not part of the culture”, and this notion stands truer than ever. Entertainers, socialites and celebrities in general have long had a […]
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Fashion and political identity in North and South Korea
Fashion is one of the most basic expressions of art and identity that we can engage with, and crucially we all make style choices every day regardless of where we live or even if we want to. Political tides often play a noticeable part in the cultural landscape of a nation and shifts in culture […]
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Birkin Mad: is this the apex of capitalist lunacy?
So the story goes that the in 1981, whilst on a flight to London from Paris, Anglo-French singer and actress Jane Birkin and Hermès CEO Jean-Louis Dumas were sat next to each other when Birkin spilled the contents of her straw bag all over the cabin floor. Apparently, what followed was a conversation about the […]
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From Dalí to Dior: How Art became Fashionable
The s/s 2018 runways were filled with artistic references and influences, however collaborations between the fashion and art world are by no means a new thing. The formalization of the relationship between the two likely started with Elsa Schiaparelli. Her designs referenced many art movements: Modernism, Futurism, Cubism and Art Deco, and she worked with Jean Cocteau, […]
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Fashion-Art Collaborations Dominate this Spring
This season’s shows were filled with artistic influences, references and collaborations. However, there was no wholesale appropriation of pretty pictures and prints into this year’s pieces. Instead the fashion houses, and the artists that they featured, approached the idea in a more conceptual, political or thematic manner. It did not seem frivolous, or reductive, rather […]
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An Ode to Iris: More is More and Less is a Bore
Sitting in a hotel lobby in New York, an old engine of a woman steamed into the room, a cloud of flashing cameras in her wake. She sat down in a dark corner, the reporters followed and the dust settled. Two red ocular moons and a tuft of silver hair illuminated the gloom. She was […]
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The True Cost of Beauty? Wilful Ignorance.
Consumer consciousness in the cosmetics industry has been on the rise over recent years, with many beauty brands choosing to incorporate ‘organic’, ‘cruelty free’ and ‘vegan’ claims into their packaging; research companies have reported a 100% rise in the number of ‘vegan’ claims for cosmetics in 2017, but what does this shift in consumer priorities […]
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