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Not So Lonely Londoners.
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Nightlife, culture and (mis)adventures in London.
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Coming Into The Closet.

The following are all things that have been said to me at, or regarding my presence at, fashion events: ‘Oh yeah, you and room full of women, bet I know why you like that so much!’ ‘...

1 day ago

Bloggers, Freebies and Shoplifted Timberlands.

There’s an urban legend that the head offices of brands like Timberland and Rockport once issued an order to turn a blind eye to young African Americans who were shoplifting from their stores. While ...

23 may 12 1 person likes this

How to pose like a fashion blogger, part deux.

So. Safe to say the last post I did about how to be a fashion blogger made its way around the internet a little bit. A couple of people have actually referred to me as ‘that dude who did that b...

16 may 12 1 person likes this

How to pose like a fashion blogger.

The above phrase is quoted in the Twitter bios of (approximately) a million fashion bloggers. I’ve seen the words so many times that they’ve practically lost all meaning, but they still c...

13 may 12 3 people like this

PREVIEW: Andrew Miller – Brand Spirit

For 100 days, Andrew Miller will be painting objects white to remove all visual branding from them for a project called Brand Spirit. Feels fitting not to comment much more on the project, other than...

11 may 12

Christian Louboutin Opening @ Design Museum, 30/04/2012

Last night I somehow found myself at the VIP opening of the Christian Louboutin exhibition at the Design Museum, rubbing elbows with Bip Ling, Alexa Chung (kidding, they had people to stop the likes ...

02 may 12

[P]REVIEW: Unicorn Kid – Pure Space

Firstly, apologies if you have me on Twitter or Facebook because I’ve been going on endlessly about this song. Secondly, I take back that apology because I can’t talk about this song enou...

28 apr 12

A/W ’12 Trend Forecast: The ’90s are back.

Note: This post forms part of my application to guest edit Company Magazine. If you’re from Company and you’re reading this then hiya. Fashion has a lot in common with a bunch of monkeys ...

27 apr 12

Remus Lupin and Sirius Black – The Madness Within.

I was asked to write a piece for a newly launching website on Harry Potter and its relation to a particular branch of literary theory. This is what I came up with. If discussing homosexuality and que...

22 apr 12

How to break into freelance journalism.

Patronising title, right? I wouldn’t usually dream of writing something like this; it tends to scream things like ‘look at me, I’ve MADE IT!’, which in turn invites comments l...

21 apr 12

Warner Bros Studio Tour – The Making of Harry Potter (and meeting the cast…)

I’ll just start by saying that today was one of the best days I’ve ever had. If that doesn’t set the tone for a preview, I don’t know what does. Yes, I’ve been excited t...

31 mar 12

The Perfect Denim Jacket.

So I know what you’re thinking. ‘Stu, are you like a fashion blogger now or what?’ Well, it’s a good question; I always knew you were pretty smart. Short answer: I guess so. L...

29 mar 12

A Tale of Loose Women and Man-Haters

Note: This post originally appeared as a guest post on Caitlin Moran’s website. ‘Don’t much like the look of this,’ says a woman at work, reading the back cover of How to be a Woman. ‘Really? W...

27 mar 12 1 person likes this

REVIEW: The Hunger Games

It’s my own fault really. About five days before I went to see The Hunger Games, I watched Battle Royale for the first time. Now I’m not going to be one of these people who’s like &...

25 mar 12

A Quest Called Tribes.

Note: Google spiders would probably prefer I called this article ‘tribes in fashion’ or ‘post tribalist style’ (apparently they don’t ‘get’ puns), so I hope ...

22 mar 12

Bloody Beetroots x Swatch x VICE

Lunchtime post, so it’ll have to be a quick one. I’m absolutely in love with this advert-cum-travel video-cum-music video collab between VICE Magazine, Swatch (click the link to attempt t...

13 mar 12

Sport Luxe: The S/S 2012 trend you’re going to hate soon.

If you haven’t opened a fashion magazine in the past couple of months, let me catch you up: ‘sport luxe, sport luxe, sport luxe‘ (yo Google, I know that looks like keyword stuffing ...

10 mar 12

International Women’s Day.

To say that events like International Women’s Day polarise people’s beliefs would be the understatement of the year. Mind you, it is only March. This morning I have watched normally meek ...

08 mar 12

The ‘R’ Word. A Man’s Perspective.

(Originally posted on AWOT) It isn’t all that often that men write about, or even think about, rape. The common misconception is that it’s something that will never affect us directly and that, as su...

08 mar 12

The Muppets and The Artist are the same film.

‘The determinant lay, he believed, in those values which the society in question was lacking, for it would love in art whatever it did not possess in sufficient supply within itself.’ ...

04 mar 12

Queerness and the construction of masculinity in Fight Club, American Psycho and Frisk

Ladies and gentlemen, my third year dissertation. I’m posting it here because I’ve mentioned it to a couple of people on Twitter who have expressed an interest in reading it. FYI: it gets...

29 feb 12

Tatty Devine vs Claire’s Accessories.

This week on Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest there was something of a furore surrounding Claire’s Accessories copying a bunch of Tatty Devine designs. Everyone jumped to the defence of the tin...

25 feb 12

Sophie Matters.

Would you guys totally hate it if I started posting my old short fiction? Oh well, guess we’re about to find out… I have 4,050 followers on Tumblr, 967 friends on a Myspace account I neve...

20 feb 12

Hipster Advertising.

Advertising is crazy. A while ago I had this passing thought about what happen if hipsters took over the world; how would advertising look? I figure it’d probably look like this.

15 feb 12

In Defence of #TOWIB

It was only after booking a ticket to The Only Way Is Blogging that I discovered the event is primarily aimed at fashion and beauty bloggers. And that tends to mean girls, and lots of ‘em. A se...

13 feb 12

Harry Potter and the Vampire Slayer.

Earlier today I was struck with a revelation that I thought deserved a blog post. Namely, that Harry Potter totally rips off seminal ’90s tv show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Not in a totally obvi...

26 jan 12

Review: MEATliquor, meet suckers.

I’ve been waiting to try Meatliquor for months. Like real, honest to God, months. It is, therefore, just possible that my unrealistic expectations compounded with obscene amounts of Twitter hyp...

26 jan 12

8 Bit Camden.

Took some pictures in Camden, thought adding some video game character sprites would be fun. It was more annoying than fun…but they look kinda cool.

14 jan 12

Review: Little Mix at G-A-Y, 17/12/2011

Note: this was originally published here ‘Are you gay?’ is the first question a girl in a flowery dress at the bar asks me only a couple of minutes after I get into G-A-Y at Heaven. ‘What do you thin...

20 dec 11

Review: Chuck Palahniuk, Damned

If there’s one thing Chuck Palahniuk knows, it’s the grotesque. From Big Bob’s sweaty bitch tits to…well, pretty much all of Haunted, Palahniuk knows how to make readers squi...

18 oct 11

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