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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: 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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Images courtesy of Sports Team/Nice Swan Records/Holm Front Records. Description: indie sextet Sports Team, posing. By the time I meet up with Sports Team at the Cowley Retreat ahead of their last support slot on tour with the Magic Gang, they have only been professional musicians for two months. That these bunch of Cambridge graduates […]
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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 […]
Continue ReadingAfter 25 years as editor-in-chief of Vogue, Alexandra Shulman has left. Flicking through the glossy pages, it’s impossible to imagine a single person refining the mass of creativity which comprises the fashion world to something found in every local cornershop. But amazingly, now we can get a glimpse of life as editor-in-chief: in her final […]
Continue ReadingYesterday, Vogue announced who its next editor will be after Alexandra Shulman’s departure this summer. As such, now seems a better time than ever to commemorate the talent and passion Shulman brought to British Vogue over the years. Alexandra Shulman is not what one might expect of Vogue’s Editor-in-Chief – thank goodness. One might expect to […]
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On January 24, Alexandra Shulman, the longest-serving editor of British Vogue, announced that she would be stepping down, a shock to the system after her quarter of a century at the publication. Appointed on January 23, 1992—twenty five years and one day prior to her departure—Shulman seems to have an almost Shakespearean knack for precociously […]
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☆☆☆☆☆ Now I was never going to give Madonna anything less than a 5-star review. Even if she hadn’t turned up. But last night she proved that she was not only 5-stars, but the greatest living performer on earth. The over two-hour long extravaganza was a spectacle of such magnitude, evoking every possible emotion, that […]
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Anna Wintour is not wearing her signature sunglasses today. She meets everyone’s eyes as she greets them with a warm smile. She shakes my hand, asks my name and what subject I do, and even compliments my outfit. This is not the woman you might be led to expect by the public perception of the […]
Continue ReadingSo picture the scene: you’re walking along a busy city street in the morning, commuters and shoppers bustling everywhere as you pass all the large and enticing windows of flagship stores. In amongst the glossy tanned bodies on billboards and the shop mannequins which are so small the clothes have to be bulldog-clipped at the […]
Continue ReadingIn her 2010 book A Diary of The Lady, Rachel Johnson describes a deal she struck with Lisa Armstrong of The Times: “I told Lisa I would give her daughter work experience if she had Milly into the Times fashion department. One can see why everyone hates the middle classes so much – they divvy […]
Continue ReadingThe current debate raging in the British media on the proposed ‘censorship’ of Lads’ Mags in high street supermarkets such as the Co-operative raises important questions about fashion publications directed at women. As the Lose The Lads’ Mags campaign initiated by the groups UK Feminista and Object notes, the sexualised images that colour the pages in […]
Continue ReadingThe Oxford Student Fashion Team bring you interviews, discussions and debates on the latest trends. Ranging from silly fads to tried-and-true wardrobe staples, they’ll cover it all so you can cover yourself in style.
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