Who Put Waitrose Beans on the Fashion Week Menu?
Fashion Month, Fashion, Health & Lifestyle Charlotte Lewis Fashion Month, Fashion, Health & Lifestyle Charlotte Lewis

Who Put Waitrose Beans on the Fashion Week Menu?

At London Fashion Week, it is apparently no longer enough to ask someone who they are wearing. We need to know what they are eating, too. Across the endless stream of street-style interviews and Fashion Week Reels, the same question keeps appearing: what is your favourite British food? The answers are remarkably consistent. A fry-up. Beans on toast. A Sunday roast. Fish and chips. Pie, occasionally, if someone wants to demonstrate a little more regional knowledge.

The question itself is harmless enough. So are the answers. There is nothing particularly radical about somebody liking a full English breakfast, and there is no reason that someone who works in fashion should not enjoy beans on toast. The oddity is in what these foods have come to represent. Asked outside a fashion show, surrounded by clothes that most people will never be able to afford, a fry-up becomes more than breakfast. It becomes a way of communicating Britishness, normality and relatability. The £2,000 coat might be inaccessible, but look, they like beans on toast.

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Hey, Afua!: Making a Culture Out of Your City
Influencer, Internet, Interviewed, Travel, Art and Culture Charlotte Lewis Influencer, Internet, Interviewed, Travel, Art and Culture Charlotte Lewis

Hey, Afua!: Making a Culture Out of Your City

Antagonizine usually likes to keep things Northern. We love the strange little pockets of creativity happening across Glasgow, Manchester, Sheffield and everywhere in between. But every now and then, someone comes along with such a ridiculously bubbly personality that we simply cannot resist. And, well, who doesn't love a free, or at least cheap, cute and cultural thing to do in their city?

Meet Afua Owusu-Ansah, the woman behind @heyafua, a London-based platform dedicated to finding the best free events, exhibitions, workshops, community spaces and cultural happenings across the capital. If you've ever thought London was too expensive to actually enjoy, Afua would like a word.

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It’s Not Me it’s You: Lily Allen’s ‘West End Girl’ Album Review
Music, Celebrity, Art and Culture Charlotte Lewis Music, Celebrity, Art and Culture Charlotte Lewis

It’s Not Me it’s You: Lily Allen’s ‘West End Girl’ Album Review

Mainstream British artist, Lily Allen has been thrust into the media limelight with her divorce from sci-fi series Stranger Things actor David Harbour, of which she shines a harsh light on in her second album “West End Girl”. Allen, married to Harbour for four years, wrote and recorded the entire album in ten days, delivering a real-time account of the breakdown of their relationship. 

Describing herself as a “modern wife” in ‘Relapse’, Allen gives a first-hand detailing of the toll her marriage took on her, and the guilt she felt trying to be a role model for her daughters amid her weary choice to agree to an open relationship. ‘Relapse’ is an album-defining track and an honest account of Allen’s unsteady relationship with alcohol, having been sober since 2019. 

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