• Identity & Clothing: Do We Dress To Impress Or Express?

    Lotte Hardlitschke Y2K, casual, boho-chic, street style or goth. The options of clothing styles out there are endless. But why do we choose to dress a certain way anyway? Do we do it for ourselves, for others, for neither or both? The clothes we wear, of course, depend on...
  • More Style, Less Spend: Nottingham’s Celebration of Smart Shopping

    Rayyah Uddin There’s a special kind of thrill in finding a silk blouse for £3. It’s the same flutter you get when you pull a forgotten fiver out of your coat pocket- except in Nottingham, it happens all the time. Because in Nottingham, second-hand isn’t second-best, it’s the way...
  • WICKED on Screen : can the magic continue?

    Making its Broadway debut in NYC in 2003, Wicked became a smash hit and is now the tenth longest running production in Broadway history, soaring past $1 billion in earnings in 2016. Now, more than 2 decades later, Director Jon M. Chu has released the musical that has made...
  • What a catch! Nottingham’s CATCH vintage market has set vintage shopping standards high

    Amelia Cropley Is thrifting a community? Impact reviewer Amelia Cropley would say so. Attending the Y2K CATCH market, Amelia tells of all she saw. To thrift is to swap and borrow your friends’ old clothes, buy someone’s preloved jeans and give it a second life. Thrifting also means becoming...
  • Remembering Michelle Trachtenberg’s Iconic Style

    Ellena Olik On the 26th February, actress Michelle Trachtenberg sadly passed away at age 39. Found unconscious in her New York City apartment in the early hours of Wednesday morning, it’s believed Trachtenberg died of natural causes. Impact’s Ellena Olik pays tribute to not only the Gossip Girl actress...
  • Paint Your Wardrobe Red: How To Wear Red This Spring

    Ellena Olik Regardless of season, red is always the colour envied for everybody’s wardrobe. Extremely stylish and wearable, red is the colour you want to be able to make a statement and stand out in a crowd. Impact’s Ellena Olik writes all about how to incorporate this bold passionate...
  • Glass Onion Vintage Shop Arrives in Notts: The Brand New Second Hand

    Amelia Cropley On the 28th February, the vintage brand already located in Sheffield and Leeds, opened its first shop outside Yorkshire – and where better than in the pumping heart of Nottingham. To launch the big opening, Glass Onion embraced ticket-holding newcomers into their shop with fresh stock and...