ESSAYS



AN EXAMINATION OF OPPOSITIONAL TASTE IN ‘THIRTEEN’ (2024)
March 2024
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This essay explores how the costuming of the young girls in thirteen creates an oppositional girlhood and is used to signal their spiralling exploration of adolescence.




AVAVAVA SPRING/SUMMER 24 AS A MENNIPEAN SATIRE (2024)

March 2024 
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Analysing the Avavava Spring/Summer 2024 show ‘No Time to Design, No time to Explain’ as a  Menippean Satire, and  explaining how it critiques the fashion industry. 



MUSIC AT THE MISSING THREAD - SOMERSET HOUSE  (2023)

January 2024
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An article written in collabrotion with CSM Students and The Missing Thread: Untold stories of Black British Fashion, that examines how music used as a tool to uncover and excel the lost voices of black creatives. 



CATHRINE OPIE’S ‘DOMESTIC’ (2023)

December 2023
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A look into how Cathrine Opie 1998s photography series Domestic reclaims the home space as a source of lesbian agency and comfort.



REGULATION OF FEMALE BODIES - THE VENUS AND PLAYBOY  (2023)
June 2023
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A comparative essay that examines how the erotic and pornographic depictions of women in historic Venus paintings and the modern Playboy magazine regulate the female body through the concept of the Male Gaze.


WHITE SHOW MANIFESTO (2022)
December 2023
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Written and placed on the seats of the white show for guests to read. This is a personal intrepation of the white show in a short creative paragrah.