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Coming from a fashion landscape known for its minimalist designs, Fam Irvoll stands out for her fun, bold and vibrant style. As we are often bombarded with the rhetoric of being serious and grown-up, Irvoll reminds us to embrace our inner child and whimsy. For this fashion season, Irvoll brought to the runway a playful collection that rejuvenated the audience that was present.

Friday, February 20, Brushfield Street, Spitalfields On this second day of fashion week, an interesting crowd dressed in their most extravagant attire gathers as passersby look on, intrigued. For the former, it must be a freak show; for the latter, it is a laboratory of self-expression and a contest judged by street photographers. Who came to discover the creations, who came to be seen? If you ask the guests, they don’t know what to expect from the show. After all, it is on

The process is the point. Not the final polish, nor the manufactured finish, but the missteps, revisions and persistence in between. For its debut at London Fashion Week, The Ouze builds a narrative around creation itself - the act of making as both method and message.

Photo by Wallace Chuck via Pexels under the Pexels content licence “A man who’s not dangerous will never be seen as successful. You can’t be a little bitch,” Andrew Tate declares in the opening montage of Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere (2026), setting the tone for a documentary steeped in aggressive, chauvinistic rhetoric. While such vitriol may shock some viewers, it will come as little surprise to those familiar with the growing prevalence of online misogyny. In an

London expat Martin Bourne explores the juxtaposition of ancient textures and whimsical wonder as he delves into the world of ceramics in his collaboration with Furbelow and Bibelot.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom are two of the most renowned open-world adventure games, what is it about them that has pleased players for so long?

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Two poems about love and desire.

Photo by John Cobb When London-based intercultural theatre company, Border Crossings, invited me to the opening night of their latest production about Syrian refugee women, I was immediately invested. I found myself at Hoxton Hall last week eagerly looking forward to a night that would transport me to a sensorily and culturally rich experience of the Levant. ‘Suppliants of Syria’ is a modern retelling of Aeschylus’s Greek tragedy, ‘Suppliants', one of the earliest classics to

Photo by Bence Szemerey via Pexels (licensed under the Pexels Licence ) A century after the genre first haunted the silver screen, Gothic sensibilities and traditions have crept back into cinema, uncannily suited to express the anxieties of the 2020s. While some Gothic monsters remain the most recognisable figures in literature and film, these stories have always been less about the monsters themselves than about the systems and histories that give rise to them. From the ec