We are well into a new year and a plethora of change and developments flood the fashion industry and can be observed over the last fortnight. It is a time of revolution and an exciting […]
Brand Focus: The Row
Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen have come a long way since their days as TV child stars. The twins who were once taking it in turns to play Michelle Tanner are now creators of couture […]
Review: The Hateful Eight – Not Tarantino's best
The eighth film by Quentin Tarantino sees a group of strangers spend a couple of days in an inn in the snowy wilderness of 19th century Wyoming. There’s two bounty hunters, a bounty, a hangman, […]
Remembering Sir Terry Wogan, one of Britain’s best loved voices
Sir Terry Wogan, the veteran BBC television and radio broadcaster, has sadly lost his battle with cancer aged 77. In a statement from his family, they said “Sir Terry Wogan died today after a short […]
Comment: is 2016 the year of women in film?
Towards the end of 2015 and in this first month of 2016, are we starting to see the long-awaited rise of female leadership? The seventh Star Wars film passed the Bechdel Test; the pretty basic standards […]
Jobs in Fashion
Following on from an episode of Vogue UK’s mini-series hosted by the British ‘It girl’ Alexa Chung the “Future of Fashion”, here at the Gryphon, we wanted to assist shining some light on the multitude of […]
The Depression Diaries: Suicide and Me
In the UK and ROI in 2013 there were 6,708 suicides. According to Samaritans; since 2007, the start of the recession, the rates of suicide have risen to their highest for over 30 years. In […]
Too Much Too Young
It is an assumption universally acknowledged that to be successful as a model, the key is to begin your career early. Kate Moss was scouted age 13 and began working at 16, whilst 60’s icon […]
Review: The Danish Girl – More than meets the eye
On the surface Tom Hooper’s (Les Misérables, The Kings Speech) The Danish Girl is the typical winter-release Oscar fodder that’s expected to sweep the floor come awards season. However, there is more to this film […]
Feature – Wire 10 Year Anniversary Weekend
The importance of the underground cannot be stressed enough. All art forms and social movements are a product of the context they find themselves in. But as well as mirroring the era, they serve to […]
Review: The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
Even as a self-confessed Picoult devotee, I found myself approaching this particular novel with a degree of unease, anxious that a work of complete fiction could never do justice to the indescribable horrors of the […]
Preview – Fuzzy Logic’s 16th Birthday Bash
Hailing itself as the longest running Alternative mid-week club night in the city, Fuzzy Logic is an integral part of Leeds’ nightlife. This may seem a bizarre accolade, but Leeds is riddled with lots of […]