The dopamine-driven aesthetics of the mid-2010s are back — and with them, a renewed taste for play. But, as aqua blue, body glitter, and hair feathers roll back onto the collective Pinterest board, can borrowing the era’s aesthetics revive the optimism that first created them?

On the phenomenon of having a “favourite dead girl” — from Marilyn Monroe to Sylvia Plath — and what it means to let women live in peace.

A time stamp in media culture that will be hard to outshine.

How Rama Duwaji’s footwear reveals that, for socialists, fashion is always a material concern.

From Molecule 01 to Mark Fisher, Bee Beardsworth investigates our desire to bottle corporeal closeness and a yearning for a future that never materialised.

As our screen time climbs, so do the stifling standards to which we hold ourselves. Is it any wonder, then, that cosmetic interventions are more accessible and popular than ever?

On the runway, Whimsicraft — ephemeral design with a bric-a-brac, Boy Scout feel — has taken over. Now, it’s showing up everywhere else.

Against the tired transgression of East meets West.