Fashion has long been used as a crucial component when it comes to curating one’s personal brand. The clothes we wear can both empower and evoke confidence within us while also simultaneously signifying to wider society the way in which … Continue reading Investigating Rebrand Culture The fashion of a rebrand and our desire to retain relevance.
I I love you in a state of repair, In the midst of the sunniest day While I take seeds and plant them, Water them, my hands a carousel to their needs. In night, tired and aware, I … Continue reading Soft Sermons for Spring
“A courtier must be an architect for plans, a sculptor for shapes, a painter for colour, a musician for harmony and a philosopher in the sense of measure” – Cristóbal Balenciaga. Born in 1895 in Guetaria, Spain, Cristóbal Balenciaga is … Continue reading Cristobal Balenciaga, from Guetaria to the world
Fionn listened to the flush from across the kitchen and went about making his breakfast, feeling around in the cupboard above the sink for- there’s the bowl and there’s the cereal. The bowl had little red flecks of pasta sauce … Continue reading Coconut Milk Decider
I picture her sometimes still. She’s always behind an open window, my view of her obstructed by a flowing white curtain, like the ones she bought and always meant to hem so we could hang them. Sometimes she’s alone. Usually … Continue reading The Only Way Out
The electricity went out in my house. This wouldn’t have been a big issue, really, it would have meant I could procrastinate college assignments that definitely required complete internet assistance (a complete lie). However, today was March 4th, my Zoom … Continue reading An Interview with Aaron Fahy “Listening to good music, drinking nice coffee and making the stuff I like to make”
Since its inception in 2015, “Love Island” has become a juggernaut within the sphere of reality TV. For those unfamiliar with the concept, “Love Island” sees 12 stereotypically attractive men and women enter a villa in an exotic location for … Continue reading Love Island: is there an ethical way to consume reality tv? Love Island All Stars highlights the issues with the genre of reality tv.
Don’t be confused, Sean Durkin’s “The Iron Claw” is not a movie about wrestling: it is a movie about family – one that happens to be obsessed with wrestling. Kevin Von Erich (Zac Efron) states in the opening moments how … Continue reading A Family that wrestles together, stays together.
Did you know that Dwayne Johnson only acquired legal ownership of the name: ‘The Rock’ in January of 2024? Johnson achieved this by joining the board of owners of the WWE, the world’s largest and highest grossing professional wrestling company. It got many non-wrestling fans looking into why it is that one of his famed titles only just became his. This coupled with the recent surfacing in allegations on Vince McMahon, long-time former chairman of the WWE, and the company’s 5-billion-dollar deal with Netflix has brought wider attention onto the world of professional wrestling. As someone who has had great … Continue reading On the Art of Professional Wrestling
Originally published in print February 2024. Shaku Maku: the Iraqi Arabic way of saying “What’s the craic?” and the name of one of the newest Middle Eastern restaurants to grace the streets of Dublin. Situated in the heart of … Continue reading Shaku Maku review Palestinian restaurant brings flavours of the Middle East to Rathmines
Beyoncé has just released the second album in her musical trilogy project as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Renaissance, the first album in this project, was a smash hit last summer and acted as a love letter to the … Continue reading Cowboy Carter
These past few years, my interest in Netflix-produced TV shows has never been so low, due to their tendency to cancel the best ones and renew those with scripts so terrible they might as well have been AI-generated. I’m sure … Continue reading One Day Review