Anna Boyne

With the immersive culture of TikTok and Instagram reels, it can sometimes feel like we’re being left behind in last week's trends. We simply don’t have the brand deals or the bank accounts of the style icons and influencers all over social media. Yet if we think strategically, Katie...

Each day, we are exposed to countless makeup advertisements, from beauty gurus promoting their favourite products on social media, to L’Oreal telling us we’re worth it through our television screens. But how often do we consider makeup without deviating from the feminine concept? After all, it’s the ‘Clean Girl’...

As a recent Student Union survey found nearly half of students are struggling with their finances, Anna Boyne asks if their university experience is suffering....

Let’s set the scene: you’re lying on your bed scrolling on Shein, getting ready to add to your spring closet. Something catches your eye. A pair of trousers, with a unique cut on the waistline. It’s well designed, you can sense there was some thought behind the design, it...

In November of 2022, Balenciaga released their holiday ad campaign, and it featured children styled with bears wearing bondage gear, empty wine glasses, and other disturbing objects.  The brand came under scrutiny as the gear seemed inappropriate and paedophilic, as well as other pieces in the background being spotted...

As a society, we have long been wrapped up in striving for the ‘perfect’ body, flawless skin or shiny hair. I am definitely guilty of comparing myself to a beauty standard that probably can’t be achieved on a student budget, or maybe can’t even be achieved in real life....

The Hemline Index was a theory proposed in the book ‘The Economics of Fashion’ (1928) by Paul Nystrom. This western spectacle suggests that stock prices move in the same direction as the hemlines of women’s dresses, getting shorter in times of economic prosperity and longer in times of recession....