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For our first cover story of 2026, VAGUE CREW Lead Karina examines the beauty standards, colonial legacies, intimacy and surveillance policing Black and Brown women’s hair.

Culture, Creative, Features

Threads, Features

Does LFW Rest on the Shoulders of NEWGEN?

Threads, Features

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.

Threads, Features

Features, Threads

VAGUE Fashion Week SS26 Report

Features, Threads

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.

Features, Threads

Fashion in Conflict

Features, Threads

Following our LFW SS26 event, VAGUE Resident, Daisy traces the shift from legacy magazine hierarchies to the new wave of independent creator-led imprints.

Features, Threads

Features, Culture

The Desire to be Imitated: Today’s Warped Concept of ‘Chic’

Features, Culture

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.

Features, Culture

Features

Daisy Riley 6/3/22 Daisy Riley 6/3/22

Hyperfeminine

Daisy considers cottage core as a form of queer resistance; a clever subversion of gender roles and aversion to the binary, ageing and toning things down…

Sara Fares Zovko 5/18/22 Sara Fares Zovko 5/18/22

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…

Benedetta Mancusi 4/29/22 Benedetta Mancusi 4/29/22

She Came Out of the Water: Di Petsa and the ‘Wet Trend’

As Di Petsa transitions into fiery new elements with her latest heat-reactive collection, Benedetta charts a course on the journey so far, plunging to the depths of Di Petsa's liquid oeuvre.

TK Spiff 4/15/22 TK Spiff 4/15/22

Raiders of the Lost Art: Album Rollouts

How do you like your albums: surprise or slow-burn? In this essay, TK questions the relevance of album rollouts in this day and age…

Katie Hulme 4/8/22 Katie Hulme 4/8/22

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…

Megan Freeman 3/8/22 Megan Freeman 3/8/22

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…

Ayan Artan 3/4/22 Ayan Artan 3/4/22

Ukraine: Lessons Learned

Ayan weighs in on the hypocrisy of Western solidarity as the Russo-Ukraine war wages on...

Daisy Riley 2/25/22 Daisy Riley 2/25/22

Virtual Inclusion: the Future of Digital Fashion

As Meta becomes the new norm and Zuckerburg leads us all into the multiverse, Daisy asks, are we going to bring our real-world biases and hierarchies with us?

Karina So 2/16/22 Karina So 2/16/22

Dundas, the Super Bowl & American Fashion

As Dundas dresses Mary J. Blige for another iconic all-American event, Editor-in-Chief Karina considers the state of American fashion today…

Katie Hulme 2/11/22 Katie Hulme 2/11/22

Femme Files #2: Strong Female Characters, An Ironic Paradox

Are women only considered strong when they adopt 'masculine' traits? Katie Hulme investigates.

Megan Freeman 2/1/22 Megan Freeman 2/1/22

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.

Ayan Artan 1/28/22 Ayan Artan 1/28/22

A Black Man’s Letter #1: Inception

TOMES presents the inaugural edition of a Black Man's Letter: a culture segment dedicated to giving Black men a platform, a voice, a space to heal their hurt.

Ayan Artan 1/21/22 Ayan Artan 1/21/22

MLK Day 2022

Culture writer Ayan explores the republican urge to celebrate the iconic civil rights activist who worked tirelessly to oppose literally everything they stand for.

Ed Brown 12/17/21 Ed Brown 12/17/21

Cover Music: Have We Heard It All Before?

Ed Brown makes his TOMES debut with an analysis of the attributes which make or break a cover song…

Katie Hulme 12/15/21 Katie Hulme 12/15/21

Casting Sexuality

To play or not to play; Katie wrestles with the question of who gets to play Queer on-screen…

Daisy Riley 12/9/21 Daisy Riley 12/9/21

A Feminine Weapon

THREADS writer Daisy spars with the iconic sutorial silhouette known as the stiletto: a polarizing sign of both oppression and freedom in the feminist movement

Charlotte Lavin 11/26/21 Charlotte Lavin 11/26/21

Uganda, The Pearl of Africa

Uganda is one of the African countries at the forefront of the climate crisis. Crispus, medical clinical officer and activist, talks about his beloved country and his fight for social and climate justice…

Ayan Artan 11/17/21 Ayan Artan 11/17/21

Side Hustles in Parliament

A single mother earning minimum wage can have a side hustle. Our MPs should not. Ayan explains.

Charlotte Lavin 11/12/21 Charlotte Lavin 11/12/21

The Role of Cli-Fi in Our Understanding of the Climate Crisis

Following her COP26 IG takeover, Charlotte presents a thought-provoking piece on climate fiction and how it helps us understand the reality of the climate crisis