No More Mr. Muscle – The Pressure of Unrealistic Male Bodies
What’s one thing every male identifying superhero has in common? No, not superpowers, it is muscles! In nearly every Hollywood movie it is always the big muscular superhero who is…
Does digital fashion mark the death of shopping as we know it?
Dress X is the newest and most sustainable way of shopping, so sustainable in fact, no material is used in the creation of their clothes, as they are purely digital.…
Soup and sailing with Murray MacDonald
Murray MacDonald tells me there are two sides to him. The ‘social media’ side of Murray – amiable, chipper, and perhaps “too confident,” he claims, in a hail-fellow-well-met sort of…
Unsung heroes: influential women of 2020
2020 gave us an abundance of stories of powerful and inspirational women. In the US, Vice-President elect Kamala Harris made history when she became the first female vice president, the…
Controversial covers: Vice President-elect Kamala Harris poses for Vogue
Vogue’s February issue featuring Vice President-elect Kamala Harris sparked immediate controversy post social media release. The cover intended for the print issue shows Harris in a casual outfit with Converse…
2021 Fashion Predictions à la TikTok
TikTok is currently full of accounts predicting 2021 trends. While a lot of the beautifully silky Motel dresses seem a bit out of touch with the current climate and pandemic,…
Lockdown costume envy
The past few months have been a repetitive soiree for our wardrobes with loungewear sets being the peak of a put-together outfit through multiple lockdowns. With little reason to dress…
Body types aren’t trends: undressing the emerging culture of body trends
CW: eating disorder Body trends. How many times have you scrolled through Instagram and seen a new aesthetic heralded as the new definition of #bodygoals? Thick thighs, thigh gaps, bikini-bridges,…