Of recent, autumn style inspiration has become synonymous with Gilmore Girls, the cozy and light-hearted – albeit fairly tongue-in-cheek – sitcom drama about single mum Lorelai Gilmore and her daughter Rory. The fictional town in which Gilmore Girls is set, “Stars Hollow”, looks especially beautiful in episodes which occur during autumn, and the costume design is no exception. If you love a good jumper or cardigan, there’s no shortage of them to see on screen. The show first aired in 2000 and thus is rife with the kind of fashion that we’re seeing become trendy again now: think low-rise bootcut…
Author: Freya Losvik
British funk and acid house group Jamiroquai have blessed listeners with the cult-classic, exquisitely choreographed dance scene in the 2004 film Napoleon Dynamite featuring the song ‘Canned Heat’. And, of course, great tunes such as ‘Virtual Insanity’, the music video of which is a perfect example of Jay Kay’s style. It may come as a surprise to discover that Jamiroquai’s vocalist Jay Kay, in his 1990s prime, dresses like many university students (and middle-aged dads) do today. Kay is most well-known for his collection of huge fur hats, which create an iconic on-stage silhouette when worn with oversized t-shirts and…
Cheerleading is arguably one of the only sports intrinsically associated with the university experience and students, and Bangor’s cheer team is a great representation. As a sport, cheerleading’s history began earlier than you may presume: the general consensus is that it began in America when a university student named Johnny Campbell conducted his own cheer in 1898. Sources also say that around this time, students in the UK were cheerleading too, thus it is unclear whether Americans or Brits invented the sport. Interestingly, at this point cheerleading was men-only; but as the sport gained traction and began to spread across…