Culture

Afro Nation Heads to Puerto Rico

Following the resounding success of the Portuguese debut over the summer, and the huge response to the forthcoming African follow-up in Ghana at the end of the year, the organisers of Afro Nation have now announced a third event, on a third continent, to take place in 2020. Afro Nation Puerto Rico will see the spectacular […]

Demur PFW Files- WOS | Spring 2020 Collection

For his Spring 2020 WOS collection, designer Andrey Artyomov mixed his trademark elegance with the outré sensibility of an artist, using a bold mash-up of feminine dresses and structured silhouettes, at times with a boyish appeal. Artyomov continues the label’s signature of uniting art, cinema, and Russian culture. There are nods to American artist Georgia […]

British Fashion Council Launches Fashion Studio Apprenticeship With David Beckham & Adwoa Aboah

The British Fashion Council (BFC) launched its Fashion Studio Apprenticeship during a visit at Prendergast Vale School in Lewisham with BFC Chief Executive Caroline Rush, BFC Ambassadorial President David Beckham and BFC Ambassador for Positive Fashion Adwoa Aboah. The Fashion Studio Apprenticeship is part of the BFC’s Education Pillar which gives young people a clear […]

Moonshine Moods: Undisclosed Asia

Representation is a funny topic, especially in today’s day and age. There’s all this need for it, but never really that much content or exposure for those that would benefit from a little recognition. And in fact, it’s difficult to manoeuvre a conversation as such when these groups aren’t given a platform to speak from, […]

Poofter – The Treatment of The Modern-day Poof

The blenders blitz relentlessly, ricocheting around the cafe if it were not for the already booming sound of clinking crockery, slamming tills, and milk steamers gargling over sporadic chitter-chatter. The barista reads a coffee cup and calls out the fake name that I gave, then hands it to me – looking at my outfit up […]

Demur LFW Files – Jamie Wei Huang Presents Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

This collection is not about the final pieces appearing in the catwalk, but the journey of how they were created. The unfolding line of the artist, the process of moving through repetition in an obsessive space and finding infinite details. Tidal waves of thoughts, failures, faith moving towards a satisfying outcome. Meaningless, trivial love only belongs to the […]

Demur NYFW Files – CAAFD Emerging Designers Outshine during NYFW SS20 Collective Showcase

Council of Aspiring American Fashion Designers [CAAFD] unveiled six emerging designers, showcasing their Spring/Summer 2020 collections from different corners of the world during New York Fashion Week The Council of Aspiring American Fashion Designers yet again unveiled various emerging brands during New York Fashion Week. CAAFD welcomed six thoroughly screened, approved and selected brands from […]

Urban Development Returns With 2019-2020 Industry Takeover Seminar Series

On the back of its biggest Industry Take Over All Dayer, back in February, as well as its newly announced ground-breaking partnership with Island Records, award-winning music development organisation Urban Development have announced their 2019-2020 Industry Take Over Seminar Series, which is taking place at Samsung KX in Kings Cross, from September 2019 to February […]

Demur LFW Files – Mark Fast Spring Summer 20

Mark’s first inspiration for the collection came when reading his national Geographic’s. He fell in love with the colours of the amazon; the macaws, birds of paradise, and different species that live there. Mark loved how the beautiful array of colours and animals unintentionally inspire so much around us. His mind swiftly started to imagine […]

Monshine Moods: Grits, An Angry Playlist

Niceties have gotten us nowhere! The ice caps are melting! The internet controls our souls! The government has shut down! Long has the time for being polite and civil passed, there’s no more space to be complacent in this world, and it’s time to take some righteous stand against the systems which oppress us! Unite! […]