‘We’re all climate journalists now’: how the weather took over everything
From the business section to the food magazine, Guardian editors are becoming focused on one dominant storyOnce upon a time, it was really only environment journalists who covered the climate crisis....
View ArticleSuccession dressing: how the polo neck came back in style
High-neck jumpers used to be boringly sensible. Now they are the last word in chic authorityPolo necks are smarter than other jumpers. In both senses. Smarter, because a sleek, high neck has a polish...
View ArticleThe noughties are back – but do they warrant a revival? | Jess Cartner-Morley
I don’t plan my outfits around my bedazzling belly button ring, but there are nice bits of noughties fashion we can cherry pickBritney and Bennifer. Cristiano Ronaldo at Manchester United. A new series...
View ArticleFrench dressing is never out of style, but that doesn’t make it less annoying...
Gallic chic celebrates female self-respect and eschews throwaway fashion, but the vital ingredient – confidence – is harder to come byNobody agrees on what French female chic actually is, but everyone...
View ArticleNot just any old bag: as handbags have shrunk, the tote has taken over | Jess...
Be it a supermarket, the latest Sally Rooney novel or a posh butcher’s, the tote bag is a declaration of values for an age when principles come with merchNaturally neither you nor I are the type to...
View ArticleTommy Hilfiger: Virgil Abloh was ‘a true Renaissance man’
‘Godfather of streetwear’ pays tribute to late designer as he is honoured at Fashion AwardsThe “godfather of streetwear” Tommy Hilfiger paid tribute to the fellow designer Virgil Abloh, describing his...
View ArticleCalifornian firm touts ‘mushroom leather’ as sustainability gamechanger
Vegan leather alternative isn’t just the hot fashion must-have – it could teach us about consumption and wasteVegan alternatives to leather could save more than just animals. The scientists behind...
View ArticleNo time like the present – why I’m going big whatever happens this Christmas
After 2020’s wash out – and Omicron notwithstanding– there’s a lot to catch up on this year, with even more baubles and bubbly than usualIn the last week of August, I called my favourite country pub to...
View ArticleAre gold hoop earrings the ‘string of pearls’ of the modern age? | Jess...
They are finishing touch to any look but their cultural history – from Angela Davis to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – is complex and should be acknowledgedPearls ruled the 20th century. Jackie Kennedy...
View ArticleParisian workshop setting puts craft of Chanel centre stage
Principles of trendless clothing made to last reflect a sustainability-influenced shift within the fashion industryThe splashiest new venue in Paris fashion, the setting for a Chanel catwalk show...
View ArticleFrom road trip to catwalk: Jack Kerouac classic inspires Dior collection
Kim Jones, winner of Fashion Awards designer of the year, draws on Beat novel On the Road for his first show in London since 2003On the Road, Jack Kerouac’s seminal novel of the Beat generation, “sold...
View ArticleWearing a suit to work now seems odd – which is why it’s so radical | Jess...
Relaxation of office dress codes feels like real liberation, and I’m the rebel in a matching jacket and trousersI’ve been trying to work out why, having never been a suit wearer, they are suddenly all...
View ArticleSupermodel Karen Elson on fashion’s toxic truth: ‘I survived harassment, body...
She has been at the top of the industry for decades. Now she’s speaking out about the dark reality of life behind the scenes When Karen Elson was a young hopeful trying to make it in Paris, a model...
View ArticleThe rules to Christmas fashion? Anything goes – but the paper hat is...
Christmas is not the time for understated chic, so I’m all-in for sequins, glitter, velvet and heelsThere is a scene early on in Spencer, Pablo Larraín’s cinematic fable starring Kristen Stewart as the...
View ArticleCut loose! Why it’s time to throw off the shackles of athleisure | Jess...
Exercise is great, but we don’t need to shove it in each other’s faces by parading around in the kit all dayMy fashion new year resolution is to cut myself some slack. To quit trying to be someone I’m...
View ArticleWhy zoomer green is the new millennial pink | Jess Cartner-Morley
Bottega’s famous shade is the chic, punchy, sustainable colour of nowIt doesn’t take a genius to see why green feels aspirational at the precise moment in history when we humans finally seem to be...
View ArticleVictoria Beckham’s brand goes back to ‘feminine and curvy’
Beckham says Miami life has inspired the ‘VB body’ dresses of her loss-making fashion operationVictoria Beckham will return to the form-fitting dresses with which she launched her fashion career in a...
View ArticleCrash, bang, wallet: why downsizing your card-carrier is a great idea | Jess...
A big, bulging wallet used to be a status symbol. In our post-cash society, a dinky, stylish ‘wallette’ makes much more senseIt’s time to downsize your finances. I mean a permanent cutback, not just a...
View ArticleTrue blue: how to fall in love with jeans again
The tracksuit era is over, and denim is back. But with a dizzying number of styles – and claims of sustainability to wade through – which will you pick?The tracksuit era began – as every history...
View ArticleNow the mini is back is it time I finally embraced black tights? | Jess...
I’ve always been a fan of going bare-legged, cold weather be damned, but it seems black tights are having a renaissanceBlack tights are fashion Marmite. If you love them, you look forward to the first...
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