https://jscarlett-hoo.com/journal Cultural criticism, musical analysis, personal essay, fashion and football commercial strategy by Jehneva Scarlett-Hoo. en-gb https://jscarlett-hoo.com/journal/the-september-issue https://jscarlett-hoo.com/journal/the-september-issue Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT John Charles Galliano is a British fashion designer with a career spanning over 30 years. His tenures at the helm of prominent fashion houses – Givenchy, Dior and Maison Margiela – have seen him produce some of the most revered collections in fashion history, and he is largely regarded as one of the best creative minds in the industry. https://jscarlett-hoo.com/journal/the-king-of-popular-music https://jscarlett-hoo.com/journal/the-king-of-popular-music Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Michael Jackson composed with his voice as the instrument. A breakdown of "In The Closet" reveals the compositional genius behind the finished product. https://jscarlett-hoo.com/journal/material-girl-the-fear https://jscarlett-hoo.com/journal/material-girl-the-fear Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Material Girl connects Istanbul's surgery tourism boom to Lily Allen's 2009 single 'The Fear,' arguing the song wasn't prophecy but proximity - Allen's fame gave her early, undiluted access to a psychology the rest of us now live inside daily. https://jscarlett-hoo.com/journal/footballs-survivors https://jscarlett-hoo.com/journal/footballs-survivors Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The day England win a football match, reports of domestic abuse rise by 47%. This is not new information. It has been known, published and cited for over a decade. Nothing has changed. https://jscarlett-hoo.com/journal/good-luck-with-that https://jscarlett-hoo.com/journal/good-luck-with-that Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI is a genuine threat to jobs built on execution. What it cannot replicate is origination. This piece defines creativity correctly, explains what AI actually does, and makes the commercial case for why businesses that mistake pattern recognition for creative intelligence will lose their audience. https://jscarlett-hoo.com/journal/material-girl-the-princess-and-the-pea https://jscarlett-hoo.com/journal/material-girl-the-princess-and-the-pea Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Timeless art can be reimagined through a cultural lens and prove its relevance time and time again. https://jscarlett-hoo.com/journal/100-years-of-marilyn-monroe https://jscarlett-hoo.com/journal/100-years-of-marilyn-monroe Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Marilyn Monroe's personal brand is unmistakeable. Consider her voice — the iconic breathy tone born as a result of her childhood stutter. Marilyn the costume… the walk, the makeup, the mask. https://jscarlett-hoo.com/journal/posh-spice-the-secret-ingredient https://jscarlett-hoo.com/journal/posh-spice-the-secret-ingredient Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Victoria Beckham's cultural and commercial impact should not be downplayed purely because pop culture insists on chronically underestimating her commercial value and her own understanding of it. https://jscarlett-hoo.com/journal/critically-speaking https://jscarlett-hoo.com/journal/critically-speaking Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT So I'm pretty certain that I'm not a lone Material Girl in a material world. There must and should be many of us whose eye for aesthetics isn't limited to what they like to wear and where they like to travel to. https://jscarlett-hoo.com/journal/the-aura-assessment https://jscarlett-hoo.com/journal/the-aura-assessment Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT What is aura? It is one of those words that exists comfortably in our vocabulary long before we are ever asked to define it. We know it when we feel it - in a room, in a performance, in a person. https://jscarlett-hoo.com/journal/confessions-of-a-formerly-kinda-material-girl https://jscarlett-hoo.com/journal/confessions-of-a-formerly-kinda-material-girl Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Honestly, it'd be disingenuous not to formally introduce myself as a true material girl in every sense of the word - I have the divalicious fashion girl autism. https://jscarlett-hoo.com/journal/to-be-young-fashionable-and-black https://jscarlett-hoo.com/journal/to-be-young-fashionable-and-black Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Oh to be young, fashionable and BLACK in 2018. What did it mean? Virgil Abloh is regarded as one of the pioneers of the street wear dominance that shook luxury fashion to its core. https://jscarlett-hoo.com/journal/you-may-think-you-know-vogue https://jscarlett-hoo.com/journal/you-may-think-you-know-vogue Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT You may think you know who they are and what they do. You may think of the institution and hold preconceived ideas about the types of people who attend Vogue College of Fashion.