• Impact Style Goes to: The Vintage Kilo Sale

    On Sunday 29th January, the travelling Vintage Kilo Sale Fair made its way to Nottingham Trent’s Student Union to be enjoyed by locals and students who fancied shopping for some wavy garments. By 11am, the queue was already spiraling around the student’s union. Considering most of these eager people...
  • Fashion Forward: Does fashion have to be political?

    In this series, Impact writer, Claire Elizabeth Seah, will consider the nature of fashion in relation to other subjects. Beginning with politics, she shares her opinions on whether fashion and politics are really as disparate as one might assume them to be. Queen Maxima of the Netherlands recently caused...
  • Zara’s “ungendered” collection: hardly groundbreaking

    Zara has always been progressive, edgy, exciting. Its latest collection, however, has sparked controversy. What’s marketed as a gender-neutral clothing range isn’t exactly progressive or, well, even that gender-neutral. Titled “Ungendered”, one would expect a collection of quirky, androgynous clothes, rebelling against...
  • Jaden Smith for Louis Vuitton women: Breaking the mould?

    Although announced a while ago, it’s never too late to talk about Louis Vuitton’s new face of women’s wear, Jaden Smith. Anyone who spends an inappropriate amount of time on the internet will already be familiar with the seventeen year old’s antics, from quirky tweets, to pushing the ‘boundaries...