At Strand Film Festival’s Interactive Horror Night, audiences weren’t just watching, they were deciding who lived and who died, while slowly abandoning morality in favour of spectacle.

What began as quiet uncertainty soon dissolved into enthusiasm, flashes of cameras and the rising hum of conversation. This was Modern Circuit, a limited-edition collaboration between Hackney-based leather goods brand Nosakhari London and multidisciplinary designer Tega Akinola, presented on the first day of London Fashion Week.

From the moment we enter the pristine white interiors of the Winchesters’ home in The Housemaid, we are suffocated by perfection, or rather the façade of it.

Low-rise denim hugs the hips under dim party lighting, bodies moving through thick, heavy air. Perfectly drawn eyeliner softens into smeared shadows, sequins catching flashes of purple as faux-fur coats slip from bare shoulders on cold campus nights. In Tell Me Lies, the late 2000s return not as a glossy Y2K fantasy, but as something raw, emotional

Jennifer Hensey discusses how nostalgia romanticises submission, turning the tradwife into an aesthetic of comfort and control.