It can be daunting to keep up with the cutthroat game of best-dressed played daily once term begins in the Arts Block. The pressure to look good in your 9 am lectures tempts a total wardrobe revamp, sparking the question: … Continue reading Kilo Sales: Ethical or Mass Consumption?
‘Barbie has worn many outfits over her long career as a fashion model/influencer and part time doctor, astronaut, vet, beekeeper etc. but the Barbiecore aesthetic is really inspired by her signature colour of pink and embracing her ultra femininity.’ … Continue reading Life in Plastic: Barbiecore and fast fashion What is Barbiecore and how has it affected the fashion world?
On December 29th 2022, we heard of the regrettable passing of our Queen of Punk, Vivienne Westwood, a trail blazer in the worlds of fashion and activism, and a life who will always be remembered. In 2016, in an i-cons … Continue reading The Inimitable Legacy of Vivienne Westwood A Fashion Retrospective
Look, I love a tracksuit. A minority position around the Arts Block, but if I don’t look like I’m waiting for the call up to the B-team, then I’m not in my natural element. I believe this simple sportswear has … Continue reading A Defence of Trackies The Outfit for Our Times
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