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Articles by Chloe Dootson-Graube
Review: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes offers an origin story for everyone’s favourite evil-but-unequivocally-stylish dictator, President Snow. For the uninitiated, his achievements in the previous trilogy amount to mass murdering his citizens, losing control of his totalitarian state after a pretty solid 60 or so year run of oppression, smelling like roses, and being played by Donald Sutherland in the movie adaptation.
On summer style: what we did on our holiday
Editor’s note: Although fashion may take a backseat in this collection of images, Chloe Dootson-Graube explores a different medium for expressing freedom within fashion. With summer already seeming long gone, and the intensity of fashion weeks clogging our newsfeeds, Chloe muses on the details of holiday clothing in a playful and calming way, capturing that wonderful moment abroad when you don’t have to care what you wear.
Oxford Club Couture
The beauty of the Oxford nightlife is its humility. Yes, it might be humble in terms of club numbers, humble in terms of having a diverse music scene, humble in terms of good times. But the humility that concerns us today is that Oxford clubs do not enforce any kind of dress code. So throw those heels in the garbage, give the bandage dress to charity, and by all means do not iron that shirt. No shower?
Fashion in 280 Characters or Less
There’s a new breed of fashion commentator – and no, it’s not the next round of budding freshers writing for Cherwell Fashion, such as myself (I know, I’m excited too) – it’s a social media phenomenon. High fashion twitter has been undercover too long not to be recognised for what it really is: bitchy, overbearing and bloody addictive.
The Lady Downstairs
Allow me to take you back to a simpler time. It was the summer of 2017; I am lying on my friend’s bed, dolled up to at least the eights, if not to the nines, as I was told this was what a night out in Manchester (Bolton) necessitated. My friend, who shall remain nameless, emerges from the shower with a coy look on her face. ‘Lads,’ she said. ‘I had an accident.’ Pray tell, pray tell, we asked. She began to recount a story of miscommunication; a story of farce, of accident, and of hot wax.
Smoking area chic
In the past couple of weeks, Cherwell has been the site of a great debate: to smoke or not to smoke? As Exeter College plans to ban smoking in its quads, student journalists have taken to soapboxes, answering in the positive and the negative. And naturally, the first question that comes into anyone’s minds, is what relevance at all does this have to fashion? Allow me to weigh in on this business about ciggies. The fashion of smoking areas has a long and storied history.
Is high fashion more accessible than ever?
As it is said, fashion weeks come and fashion weeks go, but LFW SS18 was marked by a certain revelation; Burberry produced its second ever collection to deliver the product straight from the runway to the consumer, with clothing seen on the models available to the regular buyer instantly, in-store and online.
When being interviewed for the release of his new collection under the label Blue Roses, Edward Meadham claimed that he was “really bored,” with everything in fashion at the moment. This comes in the wake of the closure of Meadham’s joint project with Benjamin Kirchoff in 2015, Meadham Kirchoff.
Mary Higgins and Ell Potter have created a show which sprinkles sound recordings, lip-syncing, and acting into one funky soup. On a quest for interviews, they asked people from all walks of life about their fears, thoughts and stories in relation to their bodies. The result is a wonderful mix of snippets, all based around the experience of being a woman in the 21st century. The show is creative and fresh.
We must care about the Taylor Swift caseNaomi Packer argues that Taylor Swift's recent lawsuit is a timely reminder of the power one woman can have in standing up against harassmentCredit: Wikimedia commonsBelieve me when I say that I have protested to verbal and physical harassment. I have given men the finger, shouted at those who have screamed lurid “compliments” in passing cars, chased a man through a nightclub to ask him why he groped me as I walked to the bar.
Results day is my least favourite day of the year. That is because I have to work until 4am in a nightclub at an A-Level results party, where I am swarmed by you little shits. Loud. Annoying. Rendered catatonic by your horrific binge drinking, which you justify with your excellent/abysmal (delete as appropriate) grades. How dare you be having a good time while I lose sleep? Maybe I’m just being selfish. For many a sixth former, it’s a day of good news – confirmation that you’ve made it into university.
On the 24th July, with the announcement of the next Window’s 10 update, it was revealed that MS Paint, a staple of the operating system since its birth in 1985, would be among the features that had been ‘removed or deprecated in Windows 10 Fall Creators Lists.’ Essentially, this means that the feature would not be available on updated models.
Among stylish circles, there is nothing more detested than the Croc. It has been a personal puzzle to me throughout my long and time-worn years, and today I set out to solve that puzzle. What better place to do it, than in the hallowed pages of the Cherwell Fashion section? With this mystery in hand, I approached my editor. “Ellie,” I said. “I’ve had a fantastic idea. I want to write about Crocs. I want to save them.
One would be hard pressed to find anything in fashion journalism as sacrosanct as the concept of ‘The Parisian’. The recent elapse of fashion weeks across the globe saw fashion publications taking to the streets in an attempt to document the street-style turn out and I defy you to find a look more widely aspired to or applauded than the ‘Parisian’. But what is meant by the term in its sartorial use?
The original 1995 anime Ghost in the Shell is a strange and beautiful film. It’s been a source of narrative and visual inspiration for everything from The Matrix to Ex Machina. It is an incredibly prescient film about technology, identity and cyber-terrorism. It is contemplative, poetic, action-packed and, above all, philosophically intriguing.
London Grammar released ‘Truth Is A Beautiful Thing’ on March 24th, the third tantalising single to be unveiled after ‘Rooting for You’ and ‘Big Picture’. The track acts as a preview to their new album of the same name, due to be revealed on June 9th. The London-based trio rose to fame with their album If You Wait in 2013, which included the highlight ‘Wasting My Young Years’ and the band’s poignant version of Kavinsky’s ‘Nightcall’.
Femininity, fashion and feminism
Fashion is typically perceived as an industry dominated by women, but in reality this is not the case. Only one third of the top roles in the business are occupied by women. For an industry where ostensibly the overarching aim for many designers and retailers is to clothe women, why is it so sparsely populated by women themselves? Throughout history male designers have posed problems for women when creating fashion and defining ideas of femininity.
The BBC's flagship topical debate programme will be in Oxford on April 27 The Oxford Union will be the venue for the BBC’s Question Time later this month, it was announced today. The debating society – whose former Presidents include Boris Johnson, Ted Heath and Michael Gove – will host the topical debate programme chaired by David Dimbleby on Thursday, April 27.
Oxford tops student survey for academic experience
Oxford is deemed best for academic experience by Times Higher Education student survey Oxford has risen to the top of mainstream universities in the academic experience category of the 2017 Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey. The University is seventh in terms of overall student experience, dropping three places from last year.
Disney’s current spate of live-action remakes of their own classic animated movies can be seen as a money-printing exercise, but most of these films have convincingly justified their own existence. Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland explored new 3D technologies and dug into the source material, while Maleficent fully embraced the darkness at the heart of Sleeping Beauty by borrowing ideas from Wicked.
Martin McGuinness is dead, but Northern Irish politics must go onEimer McAuley assess Martin McGuinness' mixed legacy and the future of Stormont without himThe death of Martin McGuinness in the early hours of Tuesday morning has left Northern Ireland in shock. In our increasingly uncertain political landscape, he was the enduring factor.He summed up his contribution to the peace process himself when he said he brought a “steadying influence” to Stormont.
I miss the peace and tranquillity of Oxford. “She doesn’t even go here”, someone heckles. I know, “peace” and “tranquillity” are not exactly the first words you associate with an Oxford degree. In fact, after eight weeks at Oxford, ‘home’ is a serene oasis. A magical world where deadlines don’t exist, fridges are filled with food and baths are something to be enjoyed as opposed to feared (anyone who has a bath in their accommodation that isn’t home to a small family of spiders is lying).
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