Originally published in print November 2022. Image courtesy of Anneleven via Getty Images. It can be hard to pass up a good retail therapy day, especially as a student who loves fashion and who is pursuing a stressful masters in … Continue reading Sustainability and Fast Fashion How to stay on trend without killing the planet
Barbie is back. Whilst minimalist and maximalist trends have battled for this season’s crown, the emergence of Barbiecore has proved naysayers wrong; pink is in. In the contemporary fashion world, jewel toned shades have been consigned to fashion hell (in … Continue reading The Rise of ‘Barbiecore’
The conversation around fashion is changing. The climate crisis has forced us all to look into our wardrobes and at the rapidly bankrupting high-street behemoths that once filled shopping centres and lined the most famous streets in the world. Now, … Continue reading An Interview with Apricity Ireland TN2 speaks to Gemma Holden, founder of Ireland’s newest slow fashion brand
Two years into the global phenomenon we call Covid-19, articles about anything “through Covid” or “post-Covid” saturate every outlet and conversation about our lives, whether navigating the return to work and college or examining how we now watch movies. However, … Continue reading Post-Covid Clubbing Considerations What are we wearing and where?
Originally appeared in print, April 2022. Illustration by Emily Stevenson. Sofia Coppola’s 2006 biopic, Marie Antoinette, offers a visual feast from start to finish as we follow the evolution of the titular monarch’s saccharine style. Milena Canonero’s Academy Award … Continue reading Costume in Marie Antoinette
“We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy. And how you ended up knowing which colours went together.” Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides is many things. It is an elegy … Continue reading The Lisbon Girls: ‘Pretty Politics’ of The Virgin Suicides
Originally Published in Print, April 2022. Art by Meghan Flood. “I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise It almost seems like director Anthony … Continue reading Dickie Greenleaf: a Character-Costume Study
Originally Published in Print, April 2022. Art by Ellecia Vaughan. It truly is drama and boredom that drives the Indie Sleaze scene into 2022 in all of its crude and unadulterated glory. For those seemingly unfamiliar with Indie Sleaze, … Continue reading Arts Block Party: The revival of Indie Sleaze
Originally Published in Print, December 2021 As far back as I remember, I’ve dressed for comfort. Indeed, as a teenager, I would routinely wear my faux-leather school shoes and track pants together. When my family protested, I would reply … Continue reading A Young Man in Old Man’s Clothing
Originally Published in Print, December 2021. Art by Ellecia Vaughan. The coronavirus pandemic has changed our lives in more ways than we can count. From strict lockdowns and mask-wearing, to a newfound fear of germs that the world will … Continue reading The Way We Are Now: How the pandemic has changed how we dress
Originally published in print, September 2021. Broadway is back, starting September 14th. This means Six the musical will finally be performed, which I am very excited about. Unfortunately I will not be getting tickets to New York to see … Continue reading Popstar Muses and Tudor Fashion: Six on Broadway
Originally published in print, September 2021. There is no denying the allure of the glamorous side of being a royal. Judging by the entire section that is dedicated to “royal style” on the Hello! Magazine website, and the fact … Continue reading Dressed Like Royalty: The Unsung Greatness of Queen Elizabeth II’s Awe-Inspiring Style