Anna Wintour in sweatpants, Harry Styles in lace: the people who defined...
Style was as weird as you would expect in a year that saw most of us locked down. Hazmat suits, feral scruffiness and gender twists led to some memorable looksNaomi Campbell in hazmat suit, a critique...
View ArticleHow to wear party pyjamas | Jess Cartner-Morley
Partying from home is the new WFH, and party pyjamas are the after-dark update on sweatpantsLike most of you, I suspect, and for all the obvious reasons that I won’t repeat here, I have bought hardly...
View ArticlePierre Cardin helped define modernity in the 1960s and beyond
Fashion designer will forever be associated with the decade that embraced his space-age aestheticFrench designer Pierre Cardin dies aged 98The Beatles smiling for an early group portrait in 1963, their...
View ArticleLBD out, kitchen disco in: NYE 2020's pandemic party trend
This year, cocktail frocks and heels are out in favour of fancy pyjamas, velvet slippers and sparkly knitsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIn any normal year the festive...
View Article2020: The year that changed fashion – and not just the look
Coronavirus may have led to fundamental shifts after exposing industry’s outdated business modelsStore closures, grounded flights, shuttered factories, employment insecurity. The first half of 2020...
View ArticleHow to wear sweatpants | Jess Cartner-Morley
Hold on to comfort as we embark on a new year – but dial it up from grunge to glamSweatpants were the comfort blanket of 2020. They helped us find our bearings and our balance as we flailed around,...
View ArticleCosy up: the essential no-shop guide to winter lockdown dressing
From seven-week sweaters to duvet coats, it’s time to dig out your ultimate comfort wardrobe and wear everything you love the mostThe things that matter in fashion are the same things that matter in...
View ArticleHow to dress yourself happy, one feelgood outfit at a time
Clothes can boost confidence or bring comfort – follow our dopamine dress code to add a little joy to your dayClothes should make you happy. If yours don’t, then you are getting fashion all wrong. I...
View ArticleKamala Harris and why politicians can’t resist Vogue (though it always ends...
The latest row over a high-fashion magazine cover, involving the US vice-president-elect, illustrates the chaos than can ensue when alpha worlds collideWhen Theresa May appeared in US Vogue in 2017,...
View ArticleFashion goes soft as Fendi turns boots into slippers
Milan fashion week is virtual this year, but Fendi has a six-minute menswear showstopper focusing on lockdown comfortThe first outfit in Fendi’s latest luxury menswear line-up was showcased on Saturday...
View ArticlePortugal's health system 'very close to limit' – as it happened
This blog is now closed. We’ve launched a new blog at the link below: Coronavirus news – live11.49pm GMTWe’ve launched a new blog at the link below – head there for the latest: Related: Coronavirus...
View ArticleBiden and Harris dress to reassure that normal service is restored
Optics of inauguration were serene, respectful and quietly joyous, with US designers centre stage• Joe Biden’s inauguration – live updatesThere were a number of concerns about what might happen at the...
View ArticleThe perfect item for lockdown 3? A puffer vest | Jess Cartner-Morley
The airy, featherweight lightness of a cosy puffer will get you through a winter of walkingThe puffer jacket is to lockdown 3 what the tracksuit was to lockdown 1. It is the uniform that unites...
View ArticleDior plays the tarot card as haute couture comes up trumps
Maria Grazia Chiuri presents film shot in Tuscan castle while fashion’s superleague defies pandemic In the age of sweatpants, haute couture – fashion’s superleague, in which dresses are made to order...
View ArticleHaute couture goes for an MTV-style makeover
Chanel and Valentino enlist artists from music and film as couture adapts to Covid by going digitalThe ultimate luxury for 2021? A joyful family party. That is what we want more than anything else this...
View ArticleKim Jones Fendi show: Kate Moss and daughter Lila grace catwalk
Designer’s first Fendi womenswear collection modelled by top names from Demi Moore to Naomi CampbellOne has been a British fashion superstar for 30 years; the other is a British designer who is...
View Article‘I’ll be wearing full Met Gala looks to the pub’: how we’ll get dressed after...
Longing to get your glad rags on – or fully converted to the tracksuit? Fashion insiders reveal their lockdown looks and predict what we’ll be wearing post-pandemicPicture this: the very first...
View ArticleTopshop buyout by Asos will change more than the way we shop
Analysis: Shift to online brings different type of clothes and the end to a Saturday afternoon ritualThe purchase of Topshop by Asos will change how we shop, the clothes we wear – and even the way we...
View ArticleNew York fashion week 2021 eclipsed by lunar new year in China
Relying on gift-buying Chinese consumers to boost Covid-hit sales, labels focus on Year of the Ox New York’s big week kicks off on 14 February, two days after the start of the Year of the Ox, putting...
View ArticleRemember wearing proper trousers? Let me jog your memory | Jess Cartner-Morley
Not all trousers come with a matching sweatshirt. At some point you will want to dig out a smart pair againLife skills I suspect I may have lost through what is heading towards a year of neglect...
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