Black tights or bare legs? Autumn’s crucial style debate returns
It’s the million-dollar question for power dressers everywhere: have tights come in from the cold?There are three fundamental questions that must be addressed at this point in every year. Question one:...
View ArticleMeghan’s maternity wardrobe: what does a modern duchess wear?
The royal baby news has put the Duchess of Sussex’s maternity style in the spotlight. How will she navigate ‘bump watch’?Being modern is Meghan’s USP. She is the modern duchess, hauling the royal...
View ArticleHow to wear downstairs layering | Jess Cartner-Morley
It sounds vaguely rude but just means wearing a long knit, jacket or light coat over trousers or a long skirtThe top I’m wearing here isn’t in the shops – it’s from my own wardrobe and about five years...
View ArticleHow to wear: your old coat | Jess Cartner-Morley
If you love clothes, it makes no sense to treat them as disposable. Do we need to buy a new coat every year?It is late October, which means there are precious few days left when you will see daylight...
View ArticleHow to wear: sequins in the daytime | Jess Cartner-Morley
This is a shop-your-wardrobe opportunity, because you can wear the same sequins you used to wear after darkSequins used to have a 9pm watershed, like sex and swearing on telly. You wore them to...
View ArticleHow to wear: check | Jess Cartner-Morley
A year after buying mine, I’m starting to get the hang of itChecks are very much in this season. This dress, for instance, is by Ganni, which all the cool girls are wearing, and it’s in the shops now....
View ArticleHow the push-up bra fell flat: the rise of quiet cleavage
Profits are plunging at Victoria’s Secret as a proudly bra-less look takes hold. The most fashionable boobs are now no longer in your faceVictoria’s Secret has a whole bunch of problems right now. Last...
View ArticleHow to dress for Christmas 2018: hope, loveheart earrings and the perfect...
This festive season is all about optimism. Cross your fingers for Santa to bring you a tuxedo dress‘Tis the season to be jolly. This is literally the whole point of Christmas. OK, not literally – but...
View ArticleHow to wear: the boat neckline | Jess Cartner-Morley
It’s the perfect foil for a huge pair of earrings – reason enough to endear the look to meThis isn’t why I did it, honest, but an unexpected benefit of this column becoming more sustainable through...
View ArticleStella McCartney to launch UN charter for sustainable fashion
Designer aiming to make business case for why brands should tackle climate changeStella McCartney is to announce a United Nations fashion industry charter for climate action, which will be launched at...
View ArticleHow to wear: head to toe colour
If you wear colour, wear all colour; if you wear black, wear all monochrome. It’s that simpleIs it more modern to wear head-to-toe colour than all black these days? Ha! Trick question. Either is fine....
View ArticleAmazing grace: Michelle Obama and the second coming of a style icon
The former first lady has ditched rainbow bright colours, for a softer look that signals optimism and peace. Perfect for these fractured timesEverybody loves Michelle Obama. That’s not my opinion, it...
View Article‘Only Karl can do this’: Lagerfeld blends Egypt and Manhattan for Chanel
Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Temple of Dendur becomes catwalk for Metiers d’Art showWhen Coco Chanel visited New York in 1931, the Chicago Daily Tribune noted that she arrived with two assistants,...
View ArticleHow to wear: the Strictly Come Dancing dress code
Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman wear grownup party clothes: block colour jumpsuits or little black dresses, long dresses with splits or boxy minisI don’t really see the point in going out on a Saturday...
View ArticleSparkle: the rules of giving jewellery this Christmas
Snowman earrings and big-name trinkets are a good bet. But watch out for misleading rings and chunky strong-and-stable necklacesLook, I’m not pretending diamond earrings wouldn’t be nice. But the days...
View ArticleWhat happened next? How Melania Trump’s jacket revealed her true politics to...
When the first lady arrived to meet children separated from their families with a coat emblazoned with the words ‘I really don’t care. Do U?’ what was she trying to tell us?From a fashion point of...
View ArticleHow to wear: matinee glamour for the festive season | Jess Cartner-Morley
The challenge is how to dress up without grandstanding. A nice blouse is just the thingThis is not a white shirt. It is a cream blouse. Big difference. A crisp white shirt is no good to anyone – not...
View Article‘Don't tell anyone I slept in this’: fashion writers on their most...
From grubby trousers to glamorous coats, members of the Guardian style team have very different ways of getting comfy …My most comfortable item of clothing is an absolutely disgusting old pair of grey...
View ArticleHow to wear: Cinderella sandals for the stroke of midnight | Jess Cartner-Morley
Your last dressy night in a while is not the time to buy something new, so wear the party heels you already ownHow likely are you, on a scale of one to five, with one being very likely and five being...
View ArticleTopshop's decline marks the end of the high street's golden age
The chain that democratised British fashion has lost out to Instagram and online retailers2018 was not a vintage year for fashion. The crisis-hit House of Fraser and an embattled Marks & Spencer...
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