Rosie Callaghan, Author at The Cold Magazine

A woman stands in front of a wall displaying nine paintings of red lips in various shapes and expressions, arranged in three horizontal rows.

Lize Bartelli Explores the Power of Red and the Female Gaze in Her New Exhibition

February 11, 2026

Lize Bartelli’s paintings focus on acts of looking – both at others and at oneself. Through cropped bodies and cosmetic gestures, the Brazilian-born, London-based artist questions how the concept of femininity is learned, repeated then absorbed over time. Her latest solo exhibition, The Hour of the Star, opened at Pipeline Contemporary on January 23, 2026. The show presents 14 new paintings that examine symbols of glamour, beauty and self-presentation through which modern feminine identity is perceived. This is Bartelli’s third solo exhibition, following her London debut, Last Night I Dreamt

A horse girl in a light blue vintage-style dress and black hat stands in a grassy field among several horses, gazing into the distance with mountains visible in the background.

The Politics of the Horse Girl, 2025’s Fashion Winner

December 28, 2025

The horse girl was once confined to the pastures of tween cliché and internet punchline – obsessive, awkward and painfully posh. Which means it was only a matter of time until she was absorbed into the fashion mainstream. In 2025, the horse girl cantered into her own. Across fashion capitals, equestrian codes shifted to the mainstream, evoking pastoral discipline and romantic blue-bloodedness. Daniel Lee’s Burberry reimagined aristocratic countryside dress through barn-chic outerwear and heritage silhouettes. Gucci’s A/W 2025 show in Milan leaned hard into horsebit hardware and plush furs. In

Gander founder Calum Gregory inside the AW25 presentation space, surrounded by pieces from the new collection.

Gander is Calum Gregory’s Street-style Brand Born by Accident

December 1, 2025

I first spoke to Calum Gregory back in September, during the weekend fashion brand Gander brought their AW25 collection to 228 Brick Lane, east London. The unit had a distinctly rugged character : brick walls and timber frames complemented by clothing suspended from thick, sculptural branches. In the middle of it all was Calum, 28 – steady and warm. His Mancunian accent carried above the music, unhurried, as if part of the environment. There’s no sense of selling with him, just someone who genuinely enjoys watching people pick up the

Yutaro Inagaki holding a framed painting featuring elongated black puffer-style humanoid forms and surreal animals.

The Winter Cities of Yutaro Inagaki: Shaping Modern Isolation

November 29, 2025

In a city that feeds on reinvention, where the paint never quite dries on the walls of East London, Yutaro Inagaki moves like a quiet beat beneath a neon hum. Somewhere between the flash and the carnage, he sketches the rhythm of the modern city. The 27-year-old Japanese artist, now based in London, constructs worlds that look familiar and alien all at once: sleek humanoid figures sheathed in black synthetic skins, faceless yet intimate, wandering through the burnished debris of modern urban life. Born in the late ‘90s in a

Artist Tomas Gittins sitting in his Manchester studio surrounded by bold, cartoon-like painted canvases

The Joy Must Grow: Inside the World of Tomas Gittins

November 24, 2025

It’s Friday night in Manchester. And while the city calls it a week, 28-year-old Tomas Gittins is in the thick of it. Canvases tower over him, paint canisters scatter the floor, and the half-finished echoes of faces stare out from paintings in the corner. Gittins moves through the scene — hoodie splattered with colour, his mind faster than his hands. “Street art doesn’t give me the time to create exactly what I want,” he tells me during the grand tour. “It feels a bit like putting a sticker on a

Outdoor ritual sequence from Balkan Erotic Epic, where a circle of performers stand in unison while one figure kneels in the grass.

Humping Grass and Exposing the Sacred: A Night with Marina Abramović.

October 23, 2025

There’s something absurd about queuing in the rain to watch naked strangers hump artificial grass — but that’s exactly how my Sunday night went. Only Marina Abramović could make Manchester’s weather feel like part of the performance, and on the closing night of Balkan Erotic Epic, the city obliged: grey and soaked. I’d seen the posters for months, even heard my local barista claim he’d had a spiritual awakening after hugging Abramović herself. (“Five minutes felt like a lifetime,” he said.) And so I arrived — half sceptic, half believer

Jonathan Anderson's Dior SS26, reviewed by The Cold Magazine

The Dior Dare: Jonathan Anderson’s Opening Act

October 8, 2025

When the lights dimmed inside the vast tent at the Tuileries Gardens, a single line of text appeared across a giant inverted pyramid: “Do you dare enter the House of Dior?” It was both question and provocation, a challenge not only to the audience but to Jonathan Anderson himself. Newly appointed as Dior’s artistic director for both menswear and womenswear, the Irish designer was stepping into one of fashion’s most mythic and merciless legacies. Few maisons carry such haunted weight. Yves Saint Laurent. Marc Bohan. Gianfranco Ferré. John Galliano. Raf

Louis Vuitton Spring/Summer 2026, reviewed by The Cold Magazine

Louis Vuitton Spring/Summer 2026: The Comforts of Intimacy

October 8, 2025

On a quiet Tuesday in Paris, when the Louvre is usually shuttered to the public, Nicolas Ghesquière unveiled Louis Vuitton’s Spring/Summer 2026 women’s collection. The setting was the freshly restored summer apartments of Anne of Austria, Queen of France, transformed for the occasion into a dialogue between history and the present. Steeped in layers of history, the venue carried its own narrative. Rooms adorned with 17th-century frescoes, marble floors, and arched windows that framed the Parisian sky in gilded geometry became the backdrop for Ghesquière’s latest exploration of form and

Ferrari SS26 at Milan Fashion Week, reviewed by The Cold Magazine

Ferrari SS26 at Milan Fashion Week: Precision in Reduction

October 6, 2025

Ferrari’s Spring/Summer 2026 show in Milan was a deliberate departure from fashion-week theatrics. Guided by Rocco Iannone’s belief in “reduction to heighten emotion”, the collection demonstrated how simplicity, when meticulously engineered, can rival spectacle in impact. His inspiration board was as eclectic as it was unexpected. Among the images: Pope John Paul II waving from a Ferrari Mondial in the late 1980s, Frank Ocean’s Blonde album with its cover car in stark white, and Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas cruising through Miami Vice in their Testarossa. What emerged was

Prada SS26 at Milan Fashion Week, reviewed by The Cold Magazine

Reconstructing Uniform : Prada SS26 at Milan Fashion Week.

October 6, 2025

At Milan Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2026, Prada delivered a collection that rejected fixed ideas of purpose, function, and femininity. Held at the Fondazione Prada’s Deposito–this time set against a lacquered orange floor, saturated with sunlight–the show was not about narrative or cohesion, but about the act of composing: of putting things together in ways that resist logic and still create meaning. Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons continued their long engagement with the idea of the uniform. But here, it was less about uniformity and more about modularity – the uniform

Malon's Manchester Fashion Week debut, in The Cold Magazine

Rags & Threads: Inside Malon’s MFW Debut

September 15, 2025

On September 9th, 2025, Manchester Fashion Week returned after a decade-long hiatus. Closing the first day on the Castlefield runway was Mariusz Malon, a Manchester-based designer whose creations fuse recycling, theatre and sustainability into garments that are both sculptural and alive. While Malon has dressed stars like Doja Cat and SZA and shown work at Paris and London Fashion Week, his MFW debut felt intensely personal, a reclamation of a city and story. “Fashion came naturally, all because I wanted to put my art on the body,” Malon explained. “I

Elder wearing Rastafarian colours eating street food at Notting Hill Carnival.

Notting Hill Carnival is Resistance, Legacy, and Vibes

September 2, 2025

There’s a moment – mid-skank, jerk sauce still tingling on your lips, basslines vibrating up through your soles – when Carnival just clicks. On Tavistock Road, golden hour melted into the sound system haze. I’d lost count of the number of times I hugged strangers like old friends. It’s that kind of weekend. “Bro, this is church for me,” Kieran, 28 from Hackney told me, sweat beading on his forehead, Red Stripe in hand. “This is how we worship culture.” Among the big trucks and bigger bass, it was the