Life & Culture
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 new friend’s bittersweet longing just as they had adopted me.
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Mimi Francis-Mearns writes about Fashion and Life & Culture for The Cold Magazine.
4 stories · Since May 2026
Life & Culture
I didn’t have any of my own reasons to be emotional about the festival’s close, but I had adopted my new friend’s bittersweet longing just as they had adopted me.
Fashion
“Istanbul is a city of contrasts. It’s chaotic, yet poetic”: the womenswear designer dressing women who aren’t afraid to take up space.
Fashion
Over 3,500 graduating students from 70 universities at the Truman Brewery. Ten collections that laid bare their personal expression and craftsmanship.
Fashion
He talks of textile fibres circling around from soil to crop to garment and, after a lifetime or two of wear, back to the soil.
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