Kenzo: widely copied rule-breaker who shook up Paris fashion
Kenzo Takada not only paved way for other Japanese designers but influenced likes of Dries Van NotenKenzo Takada enriched and expanded what Paris fashion could be. Arriving in the city from Tokyo as a...
View ArticleChiffon face masks and chainmail balaclavas: an eerie end to a peculiar Paris...
The first proper fashion month to take place during the pandemic is over. The takeaway? Designers have adapted to the situation with panache and inventiveness – which is just as well for the future of...
View ArticleChanel and Louis Vuitton veer between future and past
Evocative shows by two of fashion’s biggest names light up a bizarre Paris seasonThe strangest ever season of catwalk shows ended in Paris with Chanel and Louis Vuitton, displaying an industry divided...
View ArticleThis season’s trends could feel irrelevant. But there is one that fits the...
Scarf prints appeal because they are rooted in a comforting old-normalMost years I am genuinely excited about “new trends” come autumn, but this year they feel like an abstract concept. When autumn...
View ArticleHow to wear a sweater vest | Jess Cartner-Morley
Cosy without being cumbersome, it’s perfect for draughty, working-from-home days I was sold on the sweater vest after watching Mrs America. Came for the feminism, stayed for the fashion. Story of my...
View ArticleHow to turn a coat into an outfit | Jess Cartner Morley
Outdoors is where it’s happening so this winter your ‘party season’ look needs to be a coatfitYou don’t just need a coat, this winter; you need a coatfit. Social distancing has prolonged al fresco...
View Article‘She was gangsta with her clothes’: How Princess Diana became 2020’s biggest...
Her image is everywhere – in the return of The Crown, a Hollywood film, musical and emulated on the cover of Vogue. For the younger generation, there is no greater fashion inspiration right nowUntil...
View ArticleHow to wear the perfect white shirt | Jess Cartner Morley
If, like me, you are a clumsy scruffy person who dreams of being a crisp white shirt person, your time has comeI have stumbled across a small upside to the pandemic. I can’t pretend it’s going to make...
View ArticleBye-Don: a farewell to the Trump aesthetic
It’s time to reflect on the weaponising of a certain Fox News-adjacent look that dominated his four years in officeThe age of Trump was an ugly one. An ugliness in profound and harrowing senses –...
View ArticleRainbow bright! How the symbol of optimism and joy spread across our clothes,...
Appearing in windows and bookshelves, the rainbow became the defining motif of the year. Now, they are everywhere from trainers to Christmas decorations – and are big business. What’s behind this new...
View ArticleHow to wear an oversize collar | Jess Cartner-Morley
Channel Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a collared top the right side of cuteThe collar is the headline on your outfit, and everything else is the small print. A collar can stand as shorthand for your...
View ArticleGucci's latest collection revealed in series of films by Gus Van Sant
Alessandro Michele’s online ‘GucciFest’ replaces pre-Covid catwalk fashion showsThe fashion designer Alessandro Michele, having cancelled Gucci’s catwalk shows during the pandemic, needed a way to...
View ArticleGus Van Sant: 'We are living in a wilder time than anything we could imagine'
He is the king of the Hollywood underground. So why has he made a mini-series for Gucci? The film-maker talks about life in isolation, his gay president project and the big screen’s demiseAt home in...
View ArticleTV style icons of 2020: Michael Jordan's sartorial slam dunk
Gripping Netflix series The Last Dance was more like a Marvel movie than a sports documentary, putting Jordan – the man, the myth and his power dressing – front and centreThe Last Dance, the Netflix...
View ArticleThe rock star of retail: how Topshop changed the face of fashion
With its celebrity collaborations and turbo-charged launches, Philip Green’s Topshop brought fun and drama to the once uninspiring business of clothes-shopping. We chart the rise and fall of the...
View Article‘It’s about the emotion’: why Chanel hired a chateau for a catwalk show with...
The French fashion house took a team of 300 to a Loire castle for a blowout event this week, despite the pandemic preventing anyone from attendingHow important is a catwalk show to a fashion house?...
View ArticleCould it be magic: why store window displays mean more this Christmas
While festive shopping is more likely to be online this year, a tour around the window displays of stores is a pandemic-friendly way of bringing sparkle in the run-up to the big day.There will be no...
View ArticlePhotobombing cats and camera cockups: how lockdowns transformed my fitness...
The chaotic, weird world of online exercise had expanded my horizons – and kept my focus on funLeo Tolstoy’s War and Peace and Don DeLillo’s Underworld will always remind me of lockdown. Not because I...
View ArticleThe handbag proves fashion's great survivor
The popularity of the V&A’s new exhibition and the resilience of bag sales, proves our love of It bags is here to stayFrom Thatcher to Carrie Bradshaw: the handbag exhibition – in...
View ArticleWant to look modern? Raise the waistline of your dress, jeans or skirt | Jess...
Waists have crept up – and will instantly make an outfit look up-to-dateI would never buy anything to wear without trying it on in front of a full-length mirror. Not even a pair of earrings. Never,...
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