• Five For Friday Ft. [@faveszn], [@adekunleGOLD], [@pipergraceb] + more

    Five For Friday is back again with 5 releases from the past week you should pay attention to. Five For Friday is back again giving you 5 great tracks/projects for your Friday. Friday is essentially the most important day of the week musically, and typically a lot of music drops on Friday’s. With it being another…

  • Bianca Saunders marks her territory at Paris Fashion Week

    By Jason Kwame If Bianca Saunders’ Paris Fashion Week debut was anything to go by, there’s no doubt that she’s here to leave a lasting impression.  Fresh from an ANDAM prize win and LVMH prize nomination – amongst many other fashion wins – the British menswear designer’s AW22 show titled “A Stretch” wastes no time…

  • The Prowess and Patience of Dream Perfect Regime.

    Words By: Matthew Griffiths Have you ever had a dream that was so visually intense, it seemed more vivid than reality? DPR’s music videos seem to evoke a similar feeling. It’s in the name – DPR, or Dream Perfect Regime are an independent, multi-genre music and video group who want to “perfect” their dreams. “We’re…

  • André Leon Talley, Fashion Journalist and Icon, is dead at 73.

    Former creative director of US Vogue, André Leon Talley, died earlier today aged 73 due to a heart attack, according to BOF. In his 73 years, Talley became a forceful and influential figure in the fashion industry and paved the way for people like Edward Enninful. He was born in Washington DC but grew up…

  • British Vogue’s representation of dark-skinned models is not as revolutionary as they think it is.

    British Vogue’s February 2022 issue succeeded in representation but is representation always good when it exotifies and potentially dehumanises the community that it’s trying to “uplift”? British Vogue revealed their cover for their February 2022 issue, and it was met with celebration and criticism worldwide. The cover made history by being one of the first…

  • We met JFunk, the 2021 winner of #RedBullDanceYourStyle

    We had the pleasure of being invited to the Red Bull Dance UK finals of #RedBullDanceYourStyle, an all-styles, one to one dance competition where dancers battle to a random selection of songs cutting across all genres from Afro-swing to Funk. Each track is played at random and whilst some dancers are lucky enough to get…

  • GUAP Are Now Official Apple Music Curators

    January 18th, 2022 – Today, GUAP can proudly announce that we are joining the Apple Music family as an official curator and are kicking off the New Year with five exclusive playlists launching this week: Icons, ALT/RAP, Alté Sounds, Emerge: UK and Rhythm & Bangers. Icons is a time capsule of the culture. It is…

  • Anna Pluskota releases her ‘Flowerland’ editorial exclusively with GUAP Magazine.

    Anna Pluskota interprets femininity and nature in her latest editorial, named Flowerland In the country of Poland, the imagery of women is often in the crux of the male gaze. From the hyper-sexual to the hyper-feminine, the image of women is more often misappropriated in the hands of white cis men. Photographers like Anna Pluskota,…

  • 5 Tips To Make Your Clothes Last Longer This Year

    Congratulations, you made it to 2022! How many of the clothes you purchased in 2021 made it into the new year with you? We all want our clothes to last forever but, undoubtedly, after a couple washes your favourite piece loses its super soft texture, or the colour begins to fade, or a thread is…

  • 4 upcoming designers on the problem their brand aims to solve.

    4 Black designers at the beginning of their careers speak on the reasons they started their brand and how they go about saying something with their clothing. The designers include SHASHAMANI – 3rd year student on the BA Fashion Knit course at CSM, Takudzwa Chigaduro – LCF Bespoke Tailoring Graduate, Someoneson – LCF Womenswear Graduate,…