Journalism
My archive of published writing. Cultural criticism, fashion features, and live reviews.
Learning second-hand nostalgia at the End of the Road
Cold Magazine | 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.
‘You can see into someone’s soul by what they choose to wear’: Istanbul-based designer Zeynep Serdengecti on simple design
Cold Magazine | Zeynep Serdengecti designs clothes for women who, like her, aren’t afraid to take up space. Surrounded by the ornate details of Istanbul’s fashion, the womenswear designer swims against the tide. Her latest collection is crisp, smooth and strong. Shirts are the clear basis of inspiration. Soft cotton is dyed in softer shades of blue and yellow, and precisely crafted into wide skirts and shirtdresses with sharp pleats and assertive silhouettes…
Ten Designers to Watch from Graduate Fashion Week 2026
Cold Magazine | The dust has settled on Graduate Fashion Week, the event that brings our finest fashion graduates together in East London’s Truman Brewery. It was a mammoth week, featuring over 3,500 graduating students from 70 universities. Fashion design students presented collections that, without the resources of design houses, laid bare their personal expression and craftsmanship.
Dieter Vlasich on Joining the Chain of Mayan Generational Wisdom
Cold Magazine | Dieter Vlasich’s mind thinks in cycles. 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…
Finding God in Vietnam
Substack | Syncretic folk religion and a night with the Red Dao
What’s Cool In The Countryside?
Clash Magazine | Numbers show that more Gen Z are leaving big cities for the countryside. If cities are the breeding grounds for experimentation, what happens to our style when we swap city pavements for footpaths?
Mad Cool through five key performances
Crack Magazine | From longtime legends to local breakout stars, look back on five standout sets from Mad Cool 2024.
Meet the coders resurrecting the indie web
Read Only (BA Final Project) | In the fight against Big Tech, a collective of internet-utopians is making coding cool again
We’re sick of dating apps. Can the internet still play cupid?
Read Only | As the consensus on dating apps sours, is there any hope left for digital meet-cutes? We ask how the internet can be a better wing-man in our romantic search.
Community and Catharsis: Meme Page Admins on the Comfort of Making Content
Polyester Zine | Meme page admins are the unsung heroes of the internet, spending their days sifting through the infinite pool of internet content. Unpaid and often anonymous, the people behind these accounts are just in it for the meme-making process…
Stefan Cooke SS24
As a sedate poem soundtracked the dark mirrored room, Stefan Cooke sent his first look down then runway to rising lights and techno beats…
Di Petsa SS24
London Fashion Week wraps up a summer ruled by the Venus Retrograde, so when Di Petsa presented a SS24 collection titled ‘Reflections of Venus’ on Friday, it seemed the stars had aligned over the capital.
Live Report: Flow Festival
Clash Magazine | For this British writer, who’s used to muddy, litter-strewn fields, pop-up tents from Aldi, and rowdy crowds of weekend warriors, Flow Festival was an entirely foreign – and welcome – experience.