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Dirty Looks: How the Barbican Exhibition Dismantles Fashion and Beauty Standards

Dirty Looks: How the Barbican Exhibition Dismantles Fashion and Beauty Standards

From September 2025 to January 2026, London’s Barbican hosted Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion. The exhibition, organised by curators Karen Van Godtsenhoven and Jon Astbury, explored themes of dirt and regeneration within fashion. Various designers stood up against the conventional ‘rules’ of fashion, embracing unorthodox practices and inviting us to question, disrupt, and…

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  • Grassroots Venues in Crisis: The Importance of Independent Venue Week

    Since the pandemic, both independent music venues and artists have struggled exponentially to make ends meet. The Music Venue Trust reported that last year, the UK lost a grassroots music venue every fortnight. Rent and utility costs have risen sharply and for smaller venues, making a profit is near-impossible. Venues that rely only on live…

  • Sleeve & The Gesture of Wrapping

    There was a time when opening a gift didn’t involve ripping. No glitter explosion. No plastic ribbon recoiling into the bin. In a season built on nostalgia and memory, our wrapping rituals have become strangely disposable. This year, I’ve been thinking about what it would mean to slow that moment down and to wrap presents…

  • Sleeve Spotlights: Celebrate Indian art and culture this October at Indika

    Presented to you by Milap, Indika, one of Europe’s largest festival of Indian classical arts is returning to Liverpool this year taking place throughout the 17th – 31st October. Coinciding with Milap’s 40 year anniversary, the 15 day celebration will feature a programme of Indian dance and culture, ranging from cutting-edge contemporary to deeply rooted…

  • Orchestra Baobab comes to Liverpool

    Orchestra Baobab live at the Philharmonic Hall on the 15th of June 2025 Born in Dakar in the early 1970s, Orchestra Baobab has long been renowned as one of Senegal’s most legendary bands. With a blend of African-Cuban style, traditional Griot music and international pop traces, Orchestra Baobab offers upbeat rhythms, melodic vocal lines and…