Sabina Stent

How Captain America: The Winter Soldier predicated Avengers: Endgame.

From the sullen 12-year-old redhead girl in the North, dressed in girlish colours and fabrics, to the darker-haired young woman who’s been around the block and is now clad in grown-up furs, Sansa Stark has undergone one of the most significant sartorial evolutions on Game of Thrones. Not only have her clothes changed as she’s changed locations, tried to fit in with the locals and according to the company she keeps, but they’ve also switched up in reflection of her psyche.
Sansa’s clothes have...

SPOILER WARNING: The following article contains some spoilers for the books. Proceed at your own risk.
Ever since Game of Thrones first hit our television screens in 2012, speculation has been rife on how the series will end. Now, even with Season 8 due to kick off on April 14, the fan theories just keep coming.
Over the past seven seasons of George R. R. Martin’s epic saga, we have seen deceptions and lies, twists and turns, births, deaths, and White Walkers. With all to play for over the sh...

The Crow: Flesh & Blood is the first and only time the revenge epic focused on a heroine.

As Adrian’s designs go on show in Paris alongside those of the great Azzedine Alaïa, a look at the Surrealist legacy that prefaced much of the American costume designer’s work
Until June 23, the Fondation Azzedine Alaïa will stage Adrian and Alaïa: The Art of Tailoring. Both men had much in common – including a professional connection to Greta Garbo – Alaïa, mesmerised by Adrian since childhood, would eventually collect over 150 pieces of Adrian’s work during his lifetime. The exhibition, the...

Although Stan became the ‘face’ of modern Marvel because of his film cameos, the Marvel universe — cinematic or otherwise — would have been a very different place if it wasn’t for one key influence: his wife, Joan Lee/.

Many excited fans are speculating that Pepper Potts would finally appear as Rescue, her superhero alter ego, in the next film, However, .Pepper Potts has always been something of a superhero, even without the suit, and her evolution into Rescue has been steadily taking place all along, right before our eyes.

A closer look at the evolution of the Princess of Power, from ’80s TV series to the DC comics of recent years and now, a new incarnation on Netflix.

Carol’s backstory has seldom seen major change over the years, yet now, in Margaret Stohl’s The Life of Captain Marvel, we have her origin story retconned in the most perfectly subtle way.

When I was young, I read that food or drinks should be stirred clockwise for positive energy. It is something I have done since, usually automatically, and in many ways it was one of my first magical actions. Although innocuous and slight, it works for me; I want the abundance of positive energy this small action has the potential to invoke. A small piece of magical thinking that starts in the home.
We are asked to question our relationship to magic and magical thinking at the Ashmolean Museu...

Sabina Stent recommends Josh Appignanesi’s experimental film Female Human Animal as a fitting homage to Surrealist Leonora Carrington’s work
At the beginning of Female Human Animal the film’s protagonist, writer Chloe Aridjis, who first met the great artist and writer Leonora Carrington in early 1990s Mexico City through her family doctor, describes her late friend to an off-camera interviewer:
She didn’t accept the world she was given as a woman. She didn’t accept the world as it superficial...

Exploring sexuality, motherhood and puberty, these are the women who blazed their own artistic trails and refused to live in the shadow of their famous partners
History has a tendency to pigeonhole women as ‘muses’ to their male partners, often forgetting the female behind such labels. These women may have inspired countless artistic creations but they also fought back by pushing the boundaries of their male contemporaries to forge their own creative place, amassing respect and followers of t...

Audrey Hepburn’s star has never really dimmed. A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery brings us the Hepburn look across her various roles – actor, style icon, mother, humanitarian – at different stages of her life. One recurrent motif is her relationship with the couturier Hubert de Givenchy, whose designs she emblematised across the disciplines of fashion, photography and film.
In 1954 Hepburn won an Oscar for her performance in Roman Holiday, her maiden starring screen role, play...