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Derek Ridgers Ku Club Book26 Images If you’ve ever walked down the San Antonio strip, it’s hard to believe that Ibiza was once an if-you-know-you-know hippy utopia. Every year, upwards of three million tourists – close to a third of them British – land on the White Isle in search of the wild hedonism it’s…

We’ve seen Alex Consani as an office siren for Aritzia. We’ve seen her as a blonde bombshell for Duran Lantink. And now, we’re getting Consani as we’ve never seen her before: a Victorian goth, courtesy of McQueen.  The brand just became the latest fashion house to unveil its AW25 campaign, this one photographed and directed…

Rejection has always been one of the tougher inevitabilities of the human experience. But today, the modern world beats our egos black and blue: there are fewer graduate jobs to go round, meaning competition for good roles is stiffer; apps like Tinder and Hinge have expanded our dating pools and simultaneously opened us up to…

Emma Corrin for Miu Miu Miutine17 Images Pride and Prejudice’s Elizabeth Bennet is a Miutine girl. According to Emma Corrin, at least. “I feel like people think I’m just saying that but I think she is actually. She’s independent and irreverent,” they tell me, curled up on the sofa in a cosy library that’s not…

Novelist Sally Rooney has reiterated her support for Palestine Action, the direct action group which is now proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the UK. She made this intervention following a protest last weekend, during which several hundred of people were arrested for holding placards which read, “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.” In…

Halfway into our interview, Joaquin Phoenix grabs his iPhone to photograph me and Pedro Pascal. The reason, he explains, is the unusual way I handwrite my questions. Even Phoenix, an old-school Hollywood actor without social media, can’t keep away from his devices. Fittingly, in Ari Aster’s political comedy Eddington, everyone seems to have a mobile phone…

Last week, a BBC reporter got more than she bargained for when what should have been a straightforward interview about A-Level results turned into a denunciation of her employers. Callum Johnson-Mills, a 19-year-old student at Liverpool City College, who was picking up his results that day, took the opportunity to say on-camera, “free Palestine, end…

Among the list of new words added to the Cambridge Dictionary in 2025, two of the standouts include “skibidi” and “tradwife”. In other words, the Cambridge Dictionary has finally confirmed what we’ve all come to suspect: life is getting more nonsensical, and more regressive – lovely news. It’s also, as experts at the dictionary point…

A quarter of women in London consider getting their nails done to be an important part of their physical or emotional wellbeing, according to new research from the London HIV Prevention Programme (LHPP). However, only four per cent feel the same about getting tested for HIV. It’s no surprise that going to a nail salon…

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming services. This week’s batch includes new albums from Dijon, Cass McCombs, Chance the Rapper, Marissa Nadler, Protect, Pile, Recoechi, Mondo Lava,…