STRAND Magazine
An award-winning student-run, student-read arts and culture magazine based in the heart of London.| STRAND Magazine
An award-winning student-run, student-read arts and culture magazine based in the heart of London.| STRAND Magazine
Zarah Hashim interviews Hannah Tang and Lucía Guzman about their newly launched zine: tang tang and their article on the "situationship".| Strand Magazine
I would like you to imagine that you are a middle-aged man with two young boys who has just lost his wife and the mother of his children. Now sprinkle in your inability to parent and grieve synonymously, what would that produce?| Strand Magazine
Photo courtesy of Goldfinch Entertainment Few filmmakers have captured the pulse of modern music history quite like Oliver Murray. Over the past six years, the Oxford-born director has carved out a distinctive space at the intersection of film and sound, documenting some of the most influential figures and movements. From his early days making music videos for The Horrors, Fink, Midlake, and Noel Gallagher, Murray’s storytelling has evolved into a deeply human exploration of creativity,...| Strand Magazine
Joshua Ewusie, a London-born designer, who brings Ghanaian heritage into a sharp, contemporary focus. A recent Central Saint Martins MA graduate and current designer in residence at The Kings Foundation with CHANEL, Ewusie aims to transform the textures and traditions of West African craft into modern womenswear that celebrates community, culture, and a distinctly London sensibility.| Strand Magazine
Davies’ legacy lives on through his art, and the BFI fosters that legacy as it commemorates him through the re-release and remastering of his works. We had the privilege of being invited to watch the first in this series: The House of Mirth.| Strand Magazine
Photo by Johanna Hvidtved Copenhagen-based duo A Good Year, formed by Albert Hildebrand and Tobias Laust, is reshaping the edges of Denmark’s alternative scene with their blend of cinematic textures and understated pop. Their sound drifts somewhere between ambient pop, cinematic electronica, and textures songwriting – music that feels as visual as it does melodic. After releasing their soundtrack album Sofina in 2024, a project that began as a soundtrack to one of their own films, the...| Strand Magazine
Photo by Pablo Gallegos At just twenty-five, London-based producer, DJ, and music director Oscar Farrell has quietly become an intriguing new name in the capital’s electronic scene. Signed to dh2 , Farrell’s music sits somewhere between introspection and movement, rich with textures of late-night London, filled with the pulse of its dance floors and the quiet calm of the bus ride home. Since the release of his debut EP ‘I’ve Already Called’ in April 2025, Farrell has built a world t...| Strand Magazine
Photo by Guy Gooch For London-based Portuguese artist Raquel Martins, the idea of home has never been a fixed point. At seventeen, she left Porto for London with a guitar and a quiet determination to make music – a move that would eventually shape her sound as much as her sense of self. Blending the warmth of rhythms with the intimacy of alternative jazz and the texture of lo-fi indie, her music feels like a dialogue between worlds: nostalgic yet forward-looking, grounded yet weightless. ...| Strand Magazine
Review of Lee Miller's new retrospective exhibition at Tate Britain| Strand Magazine
There is always something surreal about an APUJAN show. This season was no different. The Taiwanese label landed back at London Fashion Week with The Extraordinary Voyage of Captain Peach, a surreal retelling of the Japanese folktale Momotaro.| Strand Magazine
Community, harmony, and ancestry lie at the heart of tribal identity, and these universal values are the core of Ginny Litscher's SS26 collection. Channeling her inspiration from the Native American Plains and the Mongolian Steppes, Litscher reimagines traditional indigenous patterns and palettes, weaving them seamlessly into her contemporary aesthetic.| Strand Magazine
Each collection was full of soul, passion and artistry, but a collection that caught my eye in particular was Nathan Slate's ‘Mourning’. It was a collection that reexamined the concept of sustainability, leaving the audience with something to reconsider. Needless to say, Slate debuted in London Fashion Week with a statement by bringing a different perspective to the conversation.| Strand Magazine
“A before David and an after David” is how Sabrina Sutherland described the change in her professional and personal life when she started working with Lynch; those who surrounded him seemed to feel the same gravitational pull.| Strand Magazine
Abou Sangare in Souleymane’s Story (2024); Photo courtesy of Conic Films Souleymane’s Story (Boris Lojkine, 2024) is a French language film following breakout star Abou Sangare as Souleymane, an asylum-seeker from Guinea. This film follows Souleymane through the 48-hour period before his citizenship interview where he must revise a fabricated story sold to him by Barry, a “social worker” who helps him prepare documents and memorise dates. The question this movie asks at its core is,...| Strand Magazine
Amid the buzz of London Fashion Week, INFDark SS26 lit up Protein Studios in Shoreditch with their Spring/Summer 2026 collection. The designer Wei Kuo reimagined the audacious eclecticism of the 1980s for a contemporary audience. Hannah Breen Gibbons and Niki Dribusch cover.| Strand Magazine
Photo by Kazzle John Delbo on Unsplash Contains spoilers for Love Is Blind season nine, episodes 1-11. I have been an avid enjoyer of the reality TV show Love Is Blind (created by Chris Coelen) since it first premiered in 2020. The premise of the show is simple: fall in love with someone, get engaged sight unseen and then get to know them physically before either marrying them, or walking away. It puts into practice the claim that people do prefer personality over looks. Initially, the...| Strand Magazine
Bacaoco advocates this by presenting a polished collection on the runway, proving that sustainable fashion is more accessible than some think. ‘It's not easy, ’ Bacaoco reveals the challenges that come with her stance, ‘it's very hard to cope because when you’re sustainable they [industry members] said it's expensive - it's not’.| Strand Magazine
From Taipei to London was a vibrant celebration of Taiwanese culture, staged at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts. Spanning everything from garment design to a curated tasting menu by Bao London, the event was commissioned by Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture to spotlight the country’s distinctive fashion scene on a global stage.| Strand Magazine
Art Hearts Fashion made their London debut at London Fashion Week, showcasing a collective of six designers from around the world. Set in St John’s Church in Hyde Park, the show displayed their upcoming collections that ranged from athleisure to formal gowns.| Strand Magazine
Ray Chu’s highly anticipated SS26 presentation in collaboration with Tenga began in a neon-lit Great Hall, shrouded by a slow electronic beat.| STRAND Magazine
Lucy Partridge unpacks the versatility and the enduring influence of the polka-dot.| STRAND Magazine
In India, I watched my grandmother reuse glass jars, mend clothes until they were threadbare, and compost food scraps without ever calling it ‘sustainability.’ In the UAE, I saw consumption at its peak, with towering malls and fast fashion stores promising endless novelty. And in London, I’ve seen both the urgency of climate action and the energy of young people working collectively to make change.| STRAND Magazine
Dans la Cuisine des Nguyen, or In the Nguyen Kitchen, is French director Stéphane Ly-Cuong’s incredible first film which discusses themes of identity, rootlessness and belonging.| STRAND Magazine
Stéphane Ly-Cuong is an inspiration to fellow aspiring artists, as his journey to fame was founded after he turned 40 years of age. He never gave up on his dreams of being a director and film maker and produced one of the most authentic, funny and poignant pieces of cinema I have witnessed in the last few years. His care for the story is reflected in his mastery of craft, and in this interview it becomes prevalent that this film is more than just his first feature: it is him being vulnerable...| STRAND Magazine
Following the widely celebrated success of Barbarian (Zach Cregger, 2022), Zach Cregger has dared to continue in the horror/mystery direction, this time directing Weapons; a film about the strange disappearance of seventeen school children who decided to leave their homes at 2:17 am to run into the void. The next day only two people return to class, Alex (Cary Christopher), and Justine Gandy (Julia Garner), the teacher, raising prominent questions about what has happened. The town places the bla| STRAND Magazine
Sorda (2025) is a Spanish drama directed by Eva Libertad about a woman named Ángela (Miriam Garlo) who is deaf and leads her life in Spain’s countryside with her partner, Héctor (Álvaro Cervantes). She experiences the new onset of pregnancy and the following stages of early motherhood, whilst facing the frustrations and difficulties which arise within a hearing-normative world.| STRAND Magazine
Hania tackles the discourse surrounding "hook-up" culture and casual sex.| STRAND Magazine
Neo Sora’s feature film Happyend was one that I had anticipated with excitement. The film's description: “A near-future city in Japan awaits destruction as it is rocked by a series of foreshocks that predict a larger, more disastrous quake on the horizon. With the anxiety looming over them, a group of teenage best friends and musicians get into typical teenager trouble that tests the strength of their relationships”. This felt like it would be right up my alley, and to some extent it wa...| STRAND Magazine
All year, we wait for that perfect time again: summer. The season of tan lines, iced lattes, and late-night memories with our friends.| STRAND Magazine
Author Benjamin Wood sits down with us to discuss his latest fiction, Seascraper, after being longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025!| STRAND Magazine
