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You Don’t Hate the Outfit. You Just Hate Who’s Wearing It.
Why do "ugly" trends suddenly become cool? From skinny privilege to Y2K nostalgia, this explores the hidden class, race and body politics shaping fashion trends.
Welcome to My Dead Grandpa – Nothing Here Is New, and That’s The Point…
While fashion industry is built around the next best thing. My Dead Grandpa is more interested in what’s already here.
Catch up with Cassie
What It Takes To Go Behind-the-Scenes At One Of Australia’s Biggest Fashion Events – And How You Can Too
Iced matchas to Melbourne Fashion Festival chaos; Adelaide fashion student Cassie Butschek is proving delusion, determination, and a well-timed email can take you far. We talked to her about runway stress, styling internships, and what it really takes to break into Australia’s fashion industry as a young creative with big dreams and even bigger ambition.
We Have Some Thoughts on the 2026 Met Gala
The 2026 Met Gala transformed fashion’s biggest night into a celebration of art, craftsmanship, and visual storytelling. This year’s theme, ‘Fashion is Art,’ saw designers and celebrities reference everything from classical sculptures to oil paintings and cinematic history, resulting in one of the most visually ambitious Met Galas in recent years.
Up with the Yuppies: Office Wear and the Corp-core Aesthetic
The Yuppie aesthetic was one of perfectly tailored Ralph Lauren power suits, briefcases, narrow glasses, black coffee, pencil skirts and tennis on weekends. Sound familiar? It’s back and bigger than ever, so slip on your bayonetta glasses, slide on those sling-back heels and swipe through the seemingly infinite office fashion TikToks swirling through the algorithm.
Adelaide’s Finest: Adelaide Fringe Recap 2026
The Fresher team went out to experience some of the plethora of shows on offer during this month of madness. Here’s what we saw, and what we have to say
An Interregnum of Divine Flesh and Machinery
This editorial imagines one possible reality as we glimpse at the monsters disguised among men – of Big Tech and capital’s relentless expansion. Set against a speculative landscape where flesh, nature, and machine coexist, these images mirror the uneasy coexistence between humanity and its own creations.
A Night of Burlesque with Evana De Lune
Truly a spectacle to behold, with a ferociously sexy array of unique performers. This show seduces you into an escape from the current climate of the world it invites you into a different dimension where glitz, glamour and seductive wit are at the forefront.
Notes on Caressa
Will, Jade and Katalina encompass South Australian “tarot-rock” band Caressa who embrace the grit of ‘70s rock with a uniquely youthful and contemporary twist.
Ignore Your Colour Palette, Embrace Your Inner Mystical Gothic Witch
Seasonal colour analysis fails to miss something integral about colour in fashion: colour should be expressive not just flattering.
The Grandeur of Sensuality: A Love Affair Between Artistry & Seduction
“Where desire meets design”
From the radiant design of Kira Bayliss clothing and the Adelaide Ballet Company, Casanova and His Mistress brings you the seductive and elusive stories of Casanova and his alluring exploits.
Strike a Pose with Diversity Hire and Lexxi
Meet two new (but already iconic) Adelaide Drag artists; Lexxi and Diversity Hire.
The Breakfast Club: How Teen Archetypes Revolutionised Colour in Styling
When ‘The Breakfast Club’ premiered in 1985, it didn’t just define a generation, it defined the way teenagers expressed themselves through clothes and, crucially, colour.
Oversaturated: Colour and Overconsumption in the Market
While desperately searching for halloween costume ideas, I stumbled across a video suggesting ‘overconsumption costumes’, where you dressed as extreme versions of recent trends. Adorn yourself in a million Labubus with terrifying red eyes; become a real office siren with fangs and webbed hands; or drench yourself in every item of butter yellow under the sun.
Form of Freedom: Badland Caravan
Their sound and style ritually sycnhronised, invoking the presence of a roll of film left in the sun to slowly warp and simultaneously glisten. The hypnotic and strangely intimate enigma of Badland Caravan is best encapsulated by frontman Adam Higgs himself as “an alchemical transmutation of energy”.
History’s Secret Trendsetters: The Art of Flagging
Fashion can only evolve when boundaries are pushed, and queer culture is often the driving force behind these transformations. Queer culture and fashion emphasise the challenging of gender norms, and celebrating these unique forms of individual expression is vital in propelling fashion in new directions.
Form of Dance
The two figures in motion personify Yin-Yang: a symbol of balance in nature and the complementary energies of masculine and feminine. Two ends of the same spectrum – light and dark, both voids on their own – ignite a cosmos of colour in unity.
Mindful Consumption in 2025: How-to Shop Sustainably
In a world obsessed with the constant consumer cycle, how can we maintain unique self-expression while balancing overconsumption? How do we “push the boundaries of what shape can be” in forming our visual identity and reject “what we have been told to conform to”?