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With Bouncing Soles sees Dr. Martens icons reimagined
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“Don’t be nostalgic for a great age of reading”, commands Dame Mary Beard, wearing a glittering sequin blazer. She has a smile on her…
23 September 2026
Liza Keane was LFW’s angel amongst the apocalypse
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The cosmic power of the brand ‘Of Planet Earth’
When a designer truly understands the people they are dressing, their success softly follows.
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What if your wardrobe could stretch across two cities?
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Sometimes, the closet remains internally — carried as a learned instinct to hide, perform, and carefully choose which parts of…
What went down at the London Dyke Deck launch
When so much of queer life is discussed through politics and the negotiation of our right to exist, simply being…
As nationalism rises, so does Black art
Five years ago it felt like the white-supremification of the England flag only existed on the exterior of selected pubs.…
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60 years after the Battle of Algiers, anti-colonialist cinema is more relevant than ever
Since its release, filmmakers and revolutionaries alike have cited The Battle of Algiers as essential viewing to better understand contemporary…
Bloody Tennis, the body horror film you were starving for
In the world of Bloody Tennis, winning becomes a totalising mindset, pushing the girls to annihilate not only their opponents…
Pulp: what do you do for an encore? Myth and archive with director Garth Jennings
"I first saw Jarvis when I was at art school. There was a coffee bar close to where my school…
Meet FJAAK, the Berlin duo making you move before you think
Long before I made it to a Berlin dancefloor, I was staring mysteriously out of school bus windows with FJAAK’s…
Solomun: ‘As long as the music plays, you don’t have to be afraid’
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CLTX wants you to dance like no one is watching
I think it would feel strange for me to make exactly the same music during my whole career, because I’m…
Learning second-hand nostalgia at the End of the Road
I didn’t have any of my own reasons to be emotional about the festival’s close, but I had adopted my…
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On a Friday night in Tottenham, DARKCLIP brought Seoul duo ETIC to London for the first edition of Exchange, a…
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Raymond Antrobus explores deaf identity in The Quiet Ear
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Is London the next great pizza city? We asked Tom Kemble what he thinks
In May, CNN bravely asked whether “London pizza” could stand alongside the great pizza cities of Naples, Rome, New York…
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The cold has finally settled in – celebrate or despair at these queer-owned London bakeries.
Mele e Pere: ‘there’s still a space for a real trattoria’
In a sea of chain restaurants and groups opening carefully designed restaurants by the dozen, some decide to sail on…
