• The “Ideal” Male Body Through Time

    In this day and age, many people are health-conscious and rightly so. However, an ever-increasing amount of people are also anxious about physique, failed countlessly by fad diets and generally fed up of not resembling the models we see on the catwalk. I feel you. Prior to 1920 (especially...
  • Gucci, Pre-Fall 2017 – Driving Diversity Forward?

    The fashion house has been teasing the world with audition videos of its pre-fall 2017 campaign on its social media channels. The major talking point is, that currently, the videos only feature black models. The modelling industry is no forerunner in ensuring fair representation of cultural diversity. Therefore, such...
  • The History of the Doc: A Shoe with Soul

    After years of ill-fitting, cheap shoes and intermittently sodden socks, I decided something needed to change. I needed something durable and practical, but something that I would still enjoy wearing. For my 20th birthday, when asked what I truly, really wanted, I could think of nothing else but a...
  • Are Clothes Losing Their Appeal to Millennials?

    As a generation that now holds the greatest influence in consumer spending and employment, are the shopping habits of the millennials transforming the outlook of the retail industry? Overall, the retail industry has been consistently growing for the past 20 years; however, most recently the sales of clothing, footwear...
  • What Does the Future of Fashion Magazines Hold?

    As popular publication In Style has recently announced its’ departure from the traditional print format, there is one very important question being asked: are our favourite print magazines truly suffering at the hands of their digital counterparts and what are we doing to save them? Unfortunately, it is not...
  • The Appeal of Uniformity

    Over the recent summer break I had the opportunity to travel to South Korea for the first time. I spent the majority of my visit in the capital, Seoul, exploring the streets with a camera in hand. My eyes are always that bit sharper when hunting for potential photographs...
  • Why the #nomakeup Trend Marks the Beginning of a Revolution

    If you’ve been on social media at all recently, you’ll have seen plenty on the VMAs. In particular, the fact that Alicia Keys and Alessia Cara both appeared on the red carpet sans makeup. Both singers performed at the MTV Video Music Awards, each without a swab of makeup,...