With this year’s Met Gala postponed, Carine Roitfeld has come to the rescue in providing some decadent escapism for anyone yearning for a bit of glamour at the moment. The annual CR x amfAR fashion show partnered with YouTube, to raise money for their Fund to Fight Covid-19, by getting together the biggest names in…
Fashion
Return of grunge
Floral dresses are a wardrobe staple irrespective of the season, and for autumn/winter ’19, they are back and even darker than ever. Inspired by the grunge look that thrived in the 90s, it would not be your typical autumn palette without dark colours, such as lavender on navy and vermillion roses. Initially emerging from brands…
Fashion
Has Anna Wintour killed Vogue?
With the recent announcement of the Met Gala’s 2020 dress code, and her 70th birthday having just passed, Anna Wintour’s influence within fashion and popular culture as a whole, are thrust back into the spotlight. Known for her iconic bob-sunglasses combination, and being the inspiration behind Meryl Streep’s role in ‘The Devil Wears Prada’, the…
Arts
Book review: Unquiet by Linn Ullmann
In a 2014 interview with Vogue, the Norwegian writer and journalist Linn Ullmann was asked what she was currently working on. ‘I am writing a memoir’, she replied, ‘or at least I thought it was a memoir. But since my memory is both very vivid and not entirely reliable, it could just as well be…
Fashion
On a razor’s edge: The Rihanna Vogue cover
Throughout all of history we have seen Hegelian dialectics at work; ideas and trends swing back and forth from the extremes like a pendulum until they synthesise and settle – beauty and fashion is no different. For a long time now, women everywhere have embraced natural and full-bodied brows, with the likes of Cara Delevingne…
Fashion
Does runway fashion have a place on the high street?
Here’s to anyone who has ever quickly popped onto Instagram during fashion week to catch up with some of the shows and been presented with styles that look so misshapen you wondered if you were holding your phone upside down! The catwalk remains the birthplace of many of the trends that we see translated into…
Arts, OldVenue
Harnessing Student Talent
Opening speeches from Guardian editor Katherine Viner and editor-in-chief of US Vogue Anna Wintour were broadcast into the dressing room, but the Northern Youth Show team had already fulfilled her advice to “be intellectually free…fearless polymaths”. Her caveats for meeting with Snapchat and Buzzfeed founders were far from wishful ambitions; the show exceeded her advice…
Fashion, OldVenue
Alexa Chung x Vogue
The fashion industry is notoriously hard to get into. In new YouTube web series Future of Fashion, Alexa Chung, with British Vogue, explores this and many other preconceptions that we as a society may hold. In the videos she states that “The fashion industry is often a closed book… unless you’re well versed on how…
Fashion, OldVenue
Fashion faux pas
The fashion world has long been considered a home for the flamboyant, the outspoken and the bizarre; as such, it is and has always been dogged by controversy. From Vogue Italia’s trend piece on ‘slave earrings’, to John Galliano’s 2002 Christian Dior collection inspired by the homeless (no, really), the fashion industry has proved time…
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