Period drama is officially back, and this time it isn’t staying on screen. Bridgerton season four has just wrapped its most talked-about run yet, Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights has spent the best part of 2026 splitting critics down the middle, and BritBox’s The Other Bennet Sister quietly became the surprise comfort watch of the year.

There is a very specific kind of guilt that comes from opening a wardrobe stuffed with clothes and still feeling like you have nothing to wear. If that sounds familiar, you are not imagining it, and you are certainly not alone. One in three young women in the UK now consider an item of clothing “old” after wearing it just once or twice. Worn twice. Then binned, donated, or left to fossilise at the back of a drawer.

i’m intrigued by the clean girl aesthetic and its prominence over the past few years. that is, i can’t stop thinking about how it strips away any semblance of individuality.

let me start by saying this outright: olivia rodrigo’s bloomers aren’t indicative of “the rise of fascism” if we’re already there. The woman’s just trying to sing her songs, stomp around the stage, and maybe remind us that the coquette revival on tiktok comes straight from 2014 tumblr.