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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.
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.
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.
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…
The Rules of Womanhood
In the Book of legislation around the world and throughout the ages, women are not their own keepers. Daisy explains.
Do Africans Feel Racism?
Toheeb ponders the Second Coming of the African immigrant's Blackness.
A Black Man’s Letter #2: From Frying Pan to Fire
For Nigeria’s Independence Day, Toheeb paints a portrait of European war through the eyes of Nigerian immigrant, Ikhade in our second edition of a Black Man’s Letter.
No Terrorist Apology
To be young, Muslim and Black: Ayan writes about the revolutionary act of expanding in the face of oppression…
It’s Time to Secularise the Debate on Abortion Rights
On June 24 2022, the US Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion set in place by Roe v. Wade almost 50 years ago. Chiraag argues the case to secularise discourse on abortion rights…
Don’t Leave Your Parents Behind
Abhishek’s ode to nurturing relationships with your guardians as you grow into your own…
Teens Behaving Nicely: Heartstopper’s Radical Sincerity
Natalie considers a new era of teen rebellion heralded by the viral Netflix show, Heartstopper: nice is the new cool…
Did Ethical Fashion Start in Mama’s Closet?
In their THREADS debut, Sara pens the origin story for today's ✨ Material Girl ✨ discovering cultural relics and fashionable pieces of yore in their parents' closets…
Masculinity, As Seen Onscreen
Katie dives deeper into TOMES exploration of onscreen representation with this analysis of masculinity in the Lord of the Rings franchise…
Femme Files #3: Celebrating Donna Sheridan for International Women's Day
This International Women’s Day, we are celebrating the badass matriarch of the Mamma Mia universe with Megan…
Ukraine: Lessons Learned
Ayan weighs in on the hypocrisy of Western solidarity as the Russo-Ukraine war wages on...
Femme Files #2: Strong Female Characters, An Ironic Paradox
Are women only considered strong when they adopt 'masculine' traits? Katie Hulme investigates.
Femme Files #1: Chlöe Bailey is A Rockstar
Megan shares how musical sensation and pop culture favourite, Chloe Bailey’s expression has affected and inspired her as a Black woman.
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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.