‘Real jobs, real lives’: Prada turns uniforms into exquisite clothes
Utilitarian collection in Milan is elevated by details and haute couture references and tailoringMiuccia Prada has put the spruce, starched white crispness of nurses’ uniforms on to the catwalk at...
View ArticleThe style hack of the moment? Just add another necklace | Jess Cartner-Morley
One necklace looks pretty – but I’m now tripling up most days and haven’t looked backI bring excellent news of an easy new-season style hack. It fits anyone, flatters everyone, won’t have you shivering...
View ArticleBlandstanding is in as Milan fashion week embraces the practical
Gucci brings blazers and bags to the catwalk and the vibe shift is from fancy dress to clothes for real life Blandstanding is the new grandstanding at Milan fashion week.At Gucci, the departure of...
View ArticleDior’s Maria Grazia Chiuri on bridging feminism and fashion: ‘The male gaze...
Feminist slogans on T-shirts are all very well, but has the creative director of the venerable French house really rewritten the rules of women’s fashion?If you walked into Maria Grazia Chiuri’s office...
View ArticleDior goes back to the 1950s as Paris fashion week opens
Fashion house upturns decade’s retrograde image with aesthetic of French muses The 1950s were much cooler than you think. That was the message as Paris fashion week opened with a Dior show that...
View ArticleKyiv-made: Litkovska brings chic clothes and Ukraine strength to Paris
Camel, toffee and charcoal feature in Ukrainian collection created under Russian bombsYou would never guess from the immaculate tailoring and finely turned silhouettes of the Litkovska collection shown...
View ArticleParis pays tribute to futuristic fashion of late Paco Rabanne
Designer Julien Dossena thanks maison’s founder, who died last month, for his ‘radical expression’In silver chainmail hoods and Perspex dresses, aluminium-foil suiting and gleaming white space boots,...
View ArticleMoscow loses at least 130 tanks in Vuhledar, report says; Putin preparing to...
Ukraine officials say ‘epic’ fight on plain near Vuhledar produced the biggest tank battle of the war. This live blog is now closedWhat we know on day 371 of the invasionOleh Synyehubov, governor of...
View Article‘I never think about trends’: Gabriela Hearst brings sustainability to Chloé...
Paris fashion week sees Chloé creative director balancing sustainability and fashionThe real passion of Gabriela Hearst, the creative director of the Parisian house of Chloé, is sustainability, not...
View ArticleBuilding your outfit around a striped shirt feels effortlessly grown up |...
Shirt-first dressing sets the tone for the rest of your outfit – just choose colour and stripes over perfect whiteRecently I stumbled across the concept of getting dressed “shirt-first”, and it’s my...
View Article‘Strength and femininity’: Victoria Beckham power dresses in Paris
Daughter joins designer while Harris Reed makes his Nina Ricci debut and Jonathan Anderson engineers emotionFor Victoria Beckham, rising to the challenge of a Paris catwalk show began at ground level...
View ArticleModels and robots share the runway at Coperni fashion show
Boston Dynamics’ canine automatons steal show in Paris as maison stages modern fable, designers sayWelcome to the age of the super-robot.With their impossible proportions, thousand-yard stares and...
View ArticleShoulder pads and spikes are back as Paris calls time on comfort dressing
John Lewis has abandoned the floral midi; now fashion week designers have ditched puff sleeves and easy-care layers. It won’t make everyone happy …John Lewis is a byword for plain-speaking British...
View ArticleSay hello to Hollywood’s new darling – the jumper of Inisherin | Jess...
Rugged, authentic and a little bit Colin Farrell, the fisherman’s sweater is the new Breton topThe fashion triumph of the Oscars this weekend will not be a red carpet designer gown. It won’t even be a...
View ArticleIt’s time to kick up our (sensible, mid-height) heels again | Jess Cartner...
Whether it’s a kitten slingback or block-heeled court, the medium heel is the two-glasses-of-wine, home-by-midnight option. And there’s no shame in thatIt has taken a long old time but things have...
View ArticleV&A Chanel exhibition to feature 200 looks across seven decades
Blockbuster to include origin story of famous tweed suit and not gloss over controversial wartime pastA pink tweed two-piece worn by the actor Lauren Bacall on a holiday in Biarritz in 1959 and a...
View ArticleFarewell sweet floral midi. Hello breezy trouser suit | Jess Cartner-Morley
It’s time to move on from the ubiquitous floral dress. Here’s what to wear nextI don’t want to alarm you but you should probably know, if you don’t already, that the floral midi dress is officially...
View ArticleWe are all still living in a Vivienne Westwood world | Jess Cartner-Morley
Pearls, hourglass dresses, pirate boots … the designer died last Christmas but this year her trademark looks are everywhere A it turns out, the fashion designer who is defining 2023 bowed out just...
View ArticleEqual parts practical and daring: how Mary Quant created look for a new way...
Swinging 60s icon brought a sense of female liberty to her designsFashion designer Dame Mary Quant dies aged 93Only the Beatles are more closely tied to the legend that is London’s swinging 60s than...
View ArticleYour perfect jeans do exist, I promise – you just need to know what to look...
Twenty minutes in the changing room is all that stands between you and your forever denimsWhy is it so tricky to shop for jeans? You walk into a store where 2,458 almost-identical slivers of blue denim...
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