How to dress: geometric prints | Jess Cartner-Morley
'A type of print that we are used to seeing over a few square inches of men's business attire is suddenly head-to-toe on the ladies'I have a theory about the current fad for geometric prints. I blame...
View ArticleChanel revives Franco-Scottish love affair in tweedy fashion
Snowy Linlithgow provides a showcase for traditional crafts with a Lagerfeld twistIn a letter to his wife Clemmie from the Duke of Westminster's Scottish estate in October 1927, Winston Churchill wrote...
View ArticleHow to dress: fit and flare skirts - video
The fit and flare skirt is a pencil skirt that kicks out at the bottom. Jess Cartner-Morley selects a few examplesJess Cartner-MorleyRebecca LovellEkaterina Ochagavia
View ArticleWhy Anna Wintour wouldn't be such a bad ambassador for Obama
The Vogue editor-in-chief is rumoured to be on the US president's shortlist for ambassador to France or the UK, and there's every reason to believe she would be up to the jobIn the winter of 2008-09,...
View ArticleBritain's best independent shops
Buying online may be efficient, but where's the joy in that? Our writers choose their favourite local bookshops, butchers and boutiques for everything you need for Christmas… and beyond. Add your tips...
View ArticleHow to dress: fit-and-flare skirts
'This is a silhouette that actually looks better on real women than it does on the catwalk'Fashion, in its pure catwalk form, is the art of exaggerating for effect. It takes the concept of a woman...
View ArticleHow to dress: high-necked party dresses - video
Jess Cartner-Morley explains how not to look like a six-year-old being taken to The NutcrackerRebecca LovellEkaterina OchagaviaJess Cartner-Morley
View ArticleHow to dress: high-necked dresses
Get it right and the high-necked dress is a modern party hitHypothetical question: if you were wearing a look you thought was working but had, in fact, become old-fashioned and borderline embarrassing,...
View ArticleThe 10 best-dressed people of 2012
From the elegant young Obamas to the jazzy Mary Berry – and some dazzling trendsetters in between. The G2 fashion team present their style winners of the yearBen Whishaw as QIt was a total stroke of...
View ArticleHow to dress: black jumpsuits - video
The look for this Christmas is the little black jumpsuit. Jess Cartner-Morley picks out the best of the bunchJess Cartner-MorleyRebecca Lovell
View ArticleFrom Thailand to Ukraine: a country's in vogue when it has its own Vogue
Arrival of indigenous edition of fashion's most famous glossy magazine has become a badge of sophisticationHere's a simple test of the economic development and consumer sophistication of a nation:...
View ArticleHow to dress: jumpsuits
It's important to get your Christmas party look right – and this year that is a black jumpsuitFunny thing about human nature, how we feel the need to locate ourselves at the centre of every story, even...
View ArticleThe Measure: what's hot and what's not
Thumbs up for Hogan wedge trainers and Tom Dixon's sleek nutcracker; thumbs down for Advent calendars and retro sherryGoing up'December will be magic' This year, we're switching festive kitchen dancing...
View ArticleHow to dress: modern floor-length dresses - video
Jess Cartner-Morley pulls a selection of gowns off the rails from the Kiera Knightley to the Pixie Geldof lookJess Cartner-MorleyRebecca LovellIrene Baqué
View ArticleHow to dress: New Year's Eve | Jess Cartner-Morley
'The challenge is to embrace the new year spirit without showing an unseemly amount of enthusiasm'It has become terribly uncool to care about New Year's Eve. The in thing, these days, is to declare...
View ArticleWorst ideas of 2012: the onesie
Not even Cheryl Cole looks good in a giant babygrowFashion, as Coco said, does not happen in a vacuum but reflects the times in which we live. In other words: you can't blame fashion for the onesie. In...
View ArticleHow to dress: Fluffy jumpers
In the grim days of early January, as the trees wilt and the tedious detox chats start, comfort and warmth take over your wardrobe in the form of the fluffy jumper from Topshop to Jonathan SaundersJess...
View ArticleHow to dress: fluffy jumpers
'The difference between a fleece and a rich angora sweater is like the difference between an electric radiator and an open fire'You buy a cocktail dress for how it looks, but you buy a jumper for how...
View ArticleFashion goes square: 2013's cool straight lines
It's the end of the curve. The new season's key look is all about squares, geometric shapes, right angles and linesRemember that bit at the end of the Da Vinci Code movie, after Tom Hanks has been...
View ArticleHow to dress: brighten up January - video
Jess Cartner-Morley tries to make your January wardrobe a bit more fun with four top-and-skirt combinations to add a little colour and zest to the bottom of your clothing food chainJess...
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