Thursday, March 28Royal Holloway's offical student publication, est. 1986

Author: Abi Turner

MAFIA Maximum: concept bags hit Topshop
Lifestyle

MAFIA Maximum: concept bags hit Topshop

Extreme sports to city life! Marcos Mafia is taking the world in a whirlwind. From starting his unique company only four years ago, Mafia age 26 has expanded the horizons of not only his company but also lifestyle branding in general. MAFIA Bags is a San Francisco based company that focuses on recycling sails from boats, kite surfs, and windsurfs, to create unique, one of a kind products. Over coffee, an a typical showery day in April The Orbital met Marcos Mafia at his pop up store in Oxford Street’s Topshop. (more…)
Swan Lake
Culture & Literature, Theatre & Performance

Swan Lake

Swan Lake- Theatre Royal Windsor Elegance, precision, tenderness, ecstasy, beauty, terror… Just a few words that come to mind when someone mentions Swan Lake, but how close to tradition can one stay before the conventional is challenged? Sawn Lake tells the story of Prince Siegfried’s love for the Swann Queen Odette; they battle against the evil sorcerer, Rothbart, and face a fearful encounter with the manipulative Odile. A tragic tale of true love that binds two people together in the face of evil requires perfectionism and emotional engagement, which is ballet in a nutshell. The acclaimed Vienna Festival Ballet Company brought the traditional ballet to Windsor in November however, the anticipated charm of this Christmas classic was altered. The dancers unarguably were incredibly t...
Lifestyle

Jungle in The Highstreet

Trees are becoming bare and Jack Frost starts to paint the grass icy white most mornings. Winter is coming! Hands and noses will turn blue and the inevitable debate of when to turn on the heating is drawing close. However, lurking in the shadows is an exotic jungle of stripes and spots bringing a touch more reminiscent of Kenya and Zambia to glacial city streets across Europe. The surmounting fur coats and animal prints of the past few years have indisputably invaded the high-street. It started with the likes of Alexa Chung’s classic Chelsea boot and Nicole Richie’s fabulous fur coat; Leopard print is an a-list love that has inevitably spread to stores of every cliental. Even in Egham high street ‘The British Heart Foundation’ has Zebra print gloves on display. Recent fashion weeks all ...
Features

Yesterday, I was a different person

University will provide us with a degree, the chance to experience new things and to discover ourselves, and so consequently forming the building blocks that will shape our lives. However, what I want to know is did we think that this would ever happen; the time when we would decide what we ‘want to be when we grow up’ and how we can achieve this? Sat in my second year induction speech, the careers guide comes in to tell us that now, these next few months are some of the most important. A question resonates through the air ‘but what if I do not know what I want to do?" Everyone is still finding their feet, after the laid-back attitude we had in first year living on campus. Remember those times when we could wake up ten minutes before a lecture and turn the heating on at the first sign o...