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A Country on Pause: What the G20 Women’s Shutdown Reveals About South Africa’s War With Itself
The G20 came to talk economics. South African women came to talk survival. VAGUE CREW Lead Karina unpacks the national shutdown that changed the entire week’s agenda.
The Sound of Sustainability
It’s not everyday sustainable fashion. In this essay, VAGUE CREW Lead Karina breaks down how artists and venues are green-ing the live music industry, one show at a time.
Does LFW Rest on the Shoulders of NEWGEN?
VAGUE Resident, Benedetta examines Laura Weir’s strategy to position London Fashion Week as a global incubator, and why the city still lacks the commercial infrastructure to support rising designers.
Designing for Who?
At the V&A this autumn, disability is no longer an afterthought. VAGUE Resident Daisy reports
Love is Performance & the Cameras are Rolling
VAGUE Resident Tola explores the rise of performative love online, and the quiet emotional cost of turning private tenderness into public theatre.
When Money Doesn’t Talk: The Film Industry’s Budget Blunders
From bloated blockbusters to reboot culture, VAGUE Resident Sara meditates on how bad spending is killing real artistry in Western cinema.
The (New) Fashion Renegades: Inside London’s Underground Fashion Scene
From the Grey to the Divine, the next wave of London fashion doesn’t want clout, it wants community. VAGUE Resident Benedetta investigates.
VAGUE Fashion Week SS26 Report
VAGUE presents the SS26 Fashion Week Report on the designers trading surface for substance as months of industry gossip and speculation mature into a new era of fashion.
Fashion in Conflict
Following our LFW SS26 event, VAGUE Resident, Daisy traces the shift from legacy magazine hierarchies to the new wave of independent creator-led imprints.
So Nasty & So Rude
When it comes to social media, niceties have officially left the building. VAGUE Resident, Tola ponders why.
The Desire to be Imitated: Today’s Warped Concept of ‘Chic’
Drawing parallels between past ‘it girls’ and today’s social media stars, VAGUE resident Sara examines how authenticity gave way to algorithmic allure, eroding everything that once made icons iconic.
On Media Literacy: Who’s Speaking, and Why Are We Listening?
From American Eagle’s ‘good jeans’ to Nara’s fashionable culinary empire, VAGUE Resident Benedetta makes a case for media literacy as the most essential skill of our generation.
‘Blame Judy!’
THREADS Editor Benedetta remembers fashion and punk iconoclast, Judy Blame on the anniversary of his death…
Defining the Diva
Daisy unpacks the V&A’s latest exhibition spotlighting the Diva, then and now.
On Waste & Waste Colonialism
As London Fashion Week returns for another season, Benedetta reflects on the fashion industry’s equally sustained waste problem…
Feline Fashion: The Black Cat as Muse
In the infamous words of Disney’s Thomas O’Malley: everybody wants to be a cat…
The Future of Fashion Education with Layana Aguilar
Benedetta speaks to Layana Aguilar, the designer and Project Runway alum bringing fashion to the next generation…
The Resurgence of Nigerian Football Fandom
Toheeb brings us into the latest phenomenon in Nigerian football, streaming not from European fields but from the country’s very own city of Lagos…
Are Youth Subcultures Dead?
THREADS writer Alessandra explores the relationship between fast fashion merchandising and the death of youth subcultures…
Fashioning Better Mental Health
Daisy exposes the numbers and idiosyncrasies behind the elephant in the fashion industry: mental health.
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VAGUE presents the SS26 Fashion Week Report on the designers trading surface for substance as months of industry gossip and speculation mature into a new era of fashion.