It’s sweet, it’s nostalgic, it’s hyperpop. A genre used by the likes of Charli XCX, Rina Sawayama and 100Gecs, it’s the music that’s become the soundtrack for our love of the early 2000s and defined this decade’s obsession with all things y2k.

First-year Central Saint Martins student, Mia Coco Chambers, was inspired to create a universe of influential women that go back and forward in time to save other women in need. “Women who had power or an opinion, and were seen as mad or a threat to society. We have to stick together in order to help our own kind.”

Twenty-year-old Anya Tisdale takes the cake for her make-up artistry. In a bid to reclaim the term ‘cakeface’, the emerging make-up artist flips the definition on its delicious head in this culinary-inspired project.

Stomping into Monday like… Photographer Alma Rosaz teams up with model, activist and writer, Kae, and stylist, Sheilam, in this larger-than-life narrative submitted to Check-Out Magazine.

For 22-year-old poet and model, Theo Gayle, substance abuse quickly became the door to his creativity; the buffer between numbness and exploring the emotions that he wanted to put onto paper.

Masha Popova is the Ukrainian designer behind some of fashion’s most interesting looks. Worn by the likes of Zara Larsson, Lil Miquela and BLACKPINK, the CSM grad last week showcased her AW21 collection through a film as part of London Fashion Week’s digital-only showcase.

As the bombshell of a D&G vs Diet Prada lawsuit was revealed, this week’s pop culture round-up saw the revival of Hood By Air à la Naomi Campbell, the formation of Charli XCX’s new pop supergroup, a Royal PR disaster and more.

Malthus is the 25-year-old musician, performer and composer who first arrived in London with little more than £30, a bag full of clothes, and the hope of kicking off his career as a musician. A couple of years on, the self-taught creative has collaborated with the likes of Charles Jeffrey, and Heliot Emil.

ONRUSHW23FH, the brainchild of Albert Sánchez and Sebastián Cameras, is a purveyor of experimental, high-quality design – using fashion as a vehicle for reflection on the current state of contemporary society.

Photographer Rosie Foster teams up with Oma Benjamin to reminisce the halcyon days of getting glammed up. With a dazzling array of pieces by designer Frances O, the pair magicked the possibility of ‘hot girl summer’ back into lockdown. Let’s face it, nothing says ‘fuck you’ better than a mug full of make-up.

Describing themselves as “an anti-capitalist project” responding to the way “the fashion industry works through the mantra of an eccentric misunderstood stylist”, Clifford Jago turns trash into eye-catching fashion nonsense – we’re talking McDonald’s chip packets as shoulder pads and traffic cones for hats.

“Society deems us not to be ready to tackle real life until we’re 18,” declares model, creative director, activist, writer and sixth-former TJ Sawyerr. But what is age, than just a marker of time? For the Clapham-based teen, championing underestimated youth is at the forefront of his work both in front of and behind the camera.

Changing your hair can be an identity forming experience, and for hair artist and stylist John Allan, the strands do all the talking. With each head a canvas for experimentation, pushing the boundaries to create more defiant ways as to how we perceive the hair on our very heads, Allan boasts a repertoire of clients from Mowalola to Beabadoobee.

“Finding an internship was like chasing the holy grail,” says third-year CSM fashion student Cécile Bousselat who, together with Maïssane Zinaï have taken measures into their own hands to launch the Central Saint Martins Fashion Alumni Club, an initiative that aims to connect students with internships, jobs and graduates.

Inspired by literally anything around her (broken iPhone cables that she found when tidying her room have become a trademark of the designer’s), there’s no denying that Tega Akinola is an up-cycling icon.

Ceramic handbags, 20cm tall high-heels with twisted toenails pointing out, and vases with long, bony fingers are not just creations made to make you feel uncomfortable. They are the hellish fruits of Naomi Gilon, the Brussels-based artist with the talent of reshaping our perceptions around ceramics.

As we waited impatiently for Billie Eilish’s new documentary, the world of pop culture saw a Daft Punk split, a ‘Mean Girls’ reboot (sort of), a crowning from the Queen and a meme-worthy shoot from Juergen Teller.

Ming Lim is the 19-year old CSM student whose work is influenced by an almost life-long relationship with Dream-Reality Confusion Disorder (DRC), spending her childhood and some of her adult life within the space between reality and dreams.

Find yourself on TikTok for long enough and it’s almost inevitable that you’ll hear “five, six, seven, eight… dance with me in my backyard boy.” Claire Rosinkranz happens to be the 17-year-old sweetheart behind mega hit ‘Backyard Boy’, an irresistible shower-singing anthem that chronicles all the heat and heart flutters of a summer romance.

“The fundamental of human flourishing is to practice the art of non-conformity and self-contemplation,” writes make-up artist, David Gillers. With an aesthetic self-described as ‘ugly beauty’, it seems more apt to credit his electric employment of colour and movement as a challenge to the very existence of stereotypical ‘beauty’ at all.