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Image description: A woman holding shopping bags with a geometric edit on her face You wake up in the morning – it’s a beautiful day and you’re feeling good. You get up, brush your teeth (hopefully), check the weather forecast (unless you’re a reckless maniac), open the doors of your wardrobe, and get to it. […]
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Image Description: Salehe Bembury during a photoshoot. CW: discussion of racism “What’s unfortunate is I literally designed the shoes that are in the bag, and I’m fucking being searched for them.” – Salehe Bembury The fashion industry has seen a lot of changes over the past couple of decades. The faces we see on magazines, […]
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Image Description: Clothing rail with hanging clothes illustrated under the Bridge of Sighs So it’s Third week (already?) and you’ve either exhausted the top tier outfits you collected over summer ready to show off at your suitably distanced events or you never quite thought about styling yourself and now you’re surrounded by Oxford’s finest fashion […]
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Top image credit: Josh Boddington Main image credit: Page 25, The Oxford Student
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Top image credit: Abigail Hodges Main image credit: Page 24, The Oxford Student
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Image description: A man sleeps in a chair on a beach in front of three propped-up small boats Photographing people is a tricky task. One might take the easy option, and take photos of those they know, who are comfortable on camera, easy to pose and easy to approach. Or, one might take the more […]
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Image description: A sepia image of four nurses playing nurses in a hospital room When interviewing people about ‘fashion identity’ it became apparent that fashion choices are not of equalling concern to all. My pointed questions of whether or not people felt they expressed themselves through their everyday attire took for granted the privileged standpoint […]
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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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Image description: Janelle Monae sings into her microphone at the 2019 launch of the Ralph Lauren Purple Label Fall Collection “They were smart and sophisticated, with an air of independence about them, and so casual about their looks and clothes and manners as to be almost slapdash. I don’t know if I realized as soon […]
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Top Image Credit: Near University Parks, Alex Haveron-Jones Main Image Credit: Page 24, The Oxford Student
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Image description: Two of the artworks presented in the January issue of Vogue Italia Vogue Italia has shaken the fashion world to its unsustainable core with the release of its new 2020 issue. This special issue, that came to newsstands on January 7th, features “zero editorial shoots” as a reaction against the ever-growing carbon footprint […]
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Image description: A lineup of Gucci’s fall 2020 clothing range The past two weeks have seen men’s fashion shows in both Milan and Paris with standout brands like Louis Vuitton, Gucci, and Dior making bold statements that challenge archetypal masculinity and style in men’s fashion, while others like Dolce and Gabbana produced a sartorial twist […]
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Image description: Julia’s tattoo of a Tillering on her left forearm In the modern world, a culture of fast-fashion has changed our perceptions in regard to permanence and stability in design. In an interview with Julia Mervis, we look at the Philosophy behind a form of artwork that is beyond trends and consumerism — a […]
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Image description: Three items of clothing, a shirt, polo shirt and quarter-zip jumper, purchased for a fraction of retail price on second-hand websites. It’s January, post-Christmas, and of course, the sales are still on (did they ever end?). If like me, you live somewhere that isn’t a city and isn’t very exciting, Westgate is probably […]
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Top Image Credit: The Radcliffe Camera, Alex Haveron-Jones Main Image Credit: Page 25, The Oxford Student
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Top Image Credit: Photograph taken in Jericho, Andrei Diaconu Main Image Credit: Page 24, The Oxford Student
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Image Credit: Bennie Lukas Bester-Description: A Woman with long hair Hair wasn’t something I paid much attention to as a child. I often got annoyed when my mum brushed it before school or friend’s birthday parties. It was nice to style, when I could be bothered (which wasn’t often). I never truly appreciated those thousands […]
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When in Rome… do you dress like the Romans used to? Of course not, but just like the ancient Romans are easily recognisable through togas, the culture of tourism has led to a homogeneous style that is all too familiar and easy to spot in our historic streets. Having had the opportunity to visit Rome […]
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“He strains too hard to convince the world he is hand-and-hand and eye-to-eye with the very young” was New York Times writer Gloria Emerson’s biting critique of Yves Saint Laurent’s “Pop Art” collection of 1966. The pop art Warhol dresses, called “lumpy” at the time, are now fully recognised as an iconic fusion of art […]
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