Those in the fashion set know firsthand the magic of Roger Vivier. To celebrate the debut of a new collection, season after season the storied stiletto-making house has put on shoe-centric extravaganzas—to call them “presentations” would be an ungenerous understatement. For their...
I’m in my suburban garden wearing an electric blue bodysuit which makes me look part water-sprite, part cyborg. Tendrils coil around my limbs. Impossible violet petals unfurl at my feet and explode around my body. What will the neighbours think?...
The day I realised my lockdown wardrobe was becoming a problem began exactly like any other day. Which was precisely the problem. I had just started work when I looked down at what I was wearing – chunky navy sweater,...
Slow-made, hand-touched fashion has had a boom during the pandemic. We’ve seen knitwear by Ella Emhoff, drawn-on denim by Kat Rose, and dyed jeans courtesy of Emily Dawn Long. Now, the New York-based Andrea Smith of the recently launched label...
Like Lon Chaney, the great silent actor known as “The Man of a Thousand Faces”, Lady Gaga has traversed roles, from music to fashion to film to politics, transmuting with creative fluidity but remaining – sometimes with defiance – the girl next...
The puffer jacket is everywhere – but so, too, are dreams of summer holidays. There is awe for science and scientists – and gratitude for home comforts. The first fully locked down London fashion week, which began on Friday, reveals...
Bridget Jones’s Diary introduced us to many things about mid-90s British culture. Smug marrieds. The Hay diet. A “ladette” mindset in which women don’t have sex, they “shag”. Yet 25 years after it was first published – and in a neat,...
The slowdown of luxury fashion continues with the announcement that Rihanna’s ready-to-wear line Fenty has been discontinued. The fashion line, launched in 2019, made history as the first luxury brand run by a black woman and effortlessly chimed with Generation Z’s...
The fashion industry still has a bias towards white men and they outnumber anyone else in executive roles, a new report shows. The findings from the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) showed that the lack of diversity has made black...
Is it the Bernie Sanders effect? Did the Vermont senator’s charming, knit mittens, sustainably made by a local teacher, inspire Bella Hadid’s recent outré hand accessories? Quite possibly. Today, Hadid stepped out in Paris in a long black Prada puffer coat,...
