Haute Couture Week is a battle of craftsmanship and creativity. A space in which designers convey abstract motifs through their collections. In Jonathan Anderson’s debut at Dior, it became immediately clear that his design language was not contingent on his work at Loewe. While he retains a sense of playful elegance and trompe l’œil elements, this collection stood as a defining moment of Haute Couture Week in its own right. 

On my last call of the day with Ma, I hear from miles away about the family gathering on the floor, as is customary across Bengali households, and chat over the steam and smell of masala chai and vegetable croquettes. I smile, and try to make do with the last piece of gulab jamun tucked at a corner in my fridge.

Photo by Yao KG (Kultured Glass) is a project rooted in reflection, observation, and confidence. Emerging from Brighton and now shaping her sound in London, KG approaches music as a way of understanding herself rather than defining a genre. What began as a deeply private practice has slowly unfolded into something shared, guided by instinct, curiosity, and moments of affirmation that felt impossible to ignore. Drawing influence from artists like Mac Miller and Billie Eilish,

It is January 5th and, already, the pressure is on. My social media is flooded with posts warning which prints, colours and silhouettes I MUST invest in before the season’s over – enough already! I do wonder, however, if these harmful trend predictions will still exist in the same format come this time next year? It’s well known that the aesthetic trends which gain the most traction are usually rooted in broader cultural and economic shifts, and, after 2025’s storm of fast fa

Photo from Wikimedia Commons The Emperor of Gladness , an Ocean Vuong novel published in May 2025, is a work of American fiction. But is it any more fiction than whatever promises America makes to its inhabitants, if not to the world?  A severe shift from the epistolary, poetic form of  On Earth, We’re Briefly Gorgeous  (an inescapable title in an English Lit classroom) and the experimental poetry collections published in previous, Vuong attempts to write the quintessential A