In the face of sweltering temperatures, Lagos Heatwave is an ode to the city’s “resilience and unwavering commitment to glamour,” creative director Daniel Obaweya shares with SC. In Lagos, the heat isn’t just a backdrop—it’s a character in its own right. But so is fashion. “For this project, we really wanted to emphasise the ridiculous…
‘Walk, don’t run’ might have been the caption announcing Paris Hilton’s archive sale earlier this month. Set up to raise money for those effected by the fires in LA earlier this year, Hilton sold off 97 pieces. The sale was on Vestiaire Collective but, with items made of Y2K dreams, it would have been the…
In fashion, the concept of the ugly shoe has had a good run. Over the last decade or so, there’s been the Dad sandal, the heeled Croc, and even, in 2024, a proper Frankenshoe: the loafer sneaker, aka the ‘snoafer’. So, as our eyes become accustomed to these clunky shapes, as they become the norm,…
How to sum up 2024 in style and culture? A quick scroll through your frequently-used group chat should do it. But in case even that is too much for a tired and addled December brain, we’re here to help. Here are 12 moments you might have sent an emoji about in 2024. The future comes…
The first ‘merch’, as we know it today, is thought to have been made for fans of Elvis Presley. Colonel Parker, Elvis’s talent manager, signed a deal in July 1956 for a company to produce everything from T-shirts to sneakers and belts, all emblazoned with the rockn’roller. By December of the same year, the range…
Fonts, like most aesthetic things, go through trend cycles. But in recent years it has seemed that serifs – the twiddly bits on the edges of letters – had become a thing of the past. The only fonts we paid any attention to were twiddly bit-free, straight-edged, or sans-serif. See the striking Futura originally taken…
Any parent will likely be familiar with soft toys – the often-loveworn collection of teddies, bunnies and lambies that often litter the bedroom of under-fives. But these adorable creatures are – in the manner of Toy Story, perhaps – escaping from their usual territory among ‘kid’s stuff’ and coming for the grown-ups. Soft toys are becoming…
Think of a city worker and you’ll likely think of a smart striped shirt worn with a tie and one of those ubiquitous Succession-adjacent gilets. But, in 2024, the signals are switching, or glitching. Enter ‘Finance Bro’, the look — some of the above garms taken up by the fashion-conscious, creative classes to cosplay someone…