NEWGEN Designer Sinéad O'Dwyer Sets the Stage for Inclusivity and Innovation at LFW: Sinéad O'Dwyer AW25 Review
London Fashion Week is rapidly emerging as the hub for fashion sustainability and innovation, thanks in large part to designers like Sinéad O'Dwyer. A graduate of the Royal College of Art, O'Dwyer is no newcomer to the event, consistently using the platform to challenge industry norms. As part of the British Fashion Council's NEWGEN Programme, O'Dwyer made her debut at London Fashion Week in 2023 and has since secured a place on the schedule.
O'Dwyer's challenge to the fashion industry is embedded in the very DNA of her designs. I first encountered her work during the Spring/Summer 2025 showcase at Copenhagen Fashion Week, where her experimental approach to design and textile techniques immediately stood out. Her creations celebrated femme-identifying bodies of all shapes, sizes, and abilities—an inclusivity often missing in the industry.
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Last week, the Oscar nominations marked the official start of awards season. However, another theatrical performance from the week demands further attention, one defined not by artistry, but by calculated divisiveness: Donald Trump’s 2025 inauguration. A meticulously staged event steeped in controversy, it ignited fierce debates over hateful gestures dismissed as “Roman salutes” and inflammatory rhetoric like “crises of trust”. While theatrics dominated headlines, the event exemplified Trump’s core strategy: the deliberate use of spectacle to distract from pressing national issues.
Album Review: Ethel Cain - 'Perverts'
Ethel Cain’s latest album, Perverts, is a sharp departure from the haunted Americana of Preacher’s Daughter. If her 2022 debut mapped a Southern Gothic narrative of faith, familial trauma, and martyrdom, Perverts is a harsh confrontation with desire, decay, and defiance. The album avoids easy categorisation, leaning into experimental production and fragmented storytelling that feels deliberately unruly—as though Cain, Hayden Anhedönia’s musical persona, is both exorcising demons and summoning new ones.