If I hear one more person saying “we shouldn’t be buying fashion at a time like this”, I think I’ll scream. Try saying that to the thousands who’ve lost their jobs at Oasis, Warehouse, Cath Kidston, Animal, Laura Ashley, Harpenne and other brands, plus the millions with no means of support in supplier factories in…
Covid-19 lockdowns may start to be eased soon but their impact will continue to be felt all year on major events. The latest to announce a big change is London Fashion Week. The British Fashion Council (BFC) said Tuesday that for the next 12 months, all London Fashion Weeks “will merge womenswear and menswear into…
Gen Z consumers are emotionally fragile; addicted to (but also concerned about) spending time on social media; directly affected by what influencers think, say, do and wear; and love spending time in physical stores. It seems the old idea of ‘retail therapy’ is still alive and well for them but less as the indulgent splurging…
You can really tell that retailers are upping their game when it comes to sustainability when one of them actually launches a calculator that tells shoppers the carbon footprint of the food that they’ve bought. S Group, which is a big name in Finland, has done just that. It’s part of the company’s S-mobiili app…
The thing is, you can do all the the hippest streetwear, you can go mad for maximalism, you can adapt athleisure and make it work for everyday living. But whatever you do, you can’t make it as cool as the looks of those few years in the late 60s and early 70s when Jackie O…
Dior’s Maria Grazia Chiuri does seem to love the looks and motifs of the Americas from prairie styling to rodeos, and her latest obsession, Mexico’s female escaramuza riders saw her latest collection adopting an equestrian theme that symbolically underlined just how much she’s taken the reins of a label that’s now being reshaped in her…
I’ve never really been a Jil sander cheerleader, apart from a few years when Raf Simons was at the helm, but that’s not much in an almost-50-year history for the label. Yet I’m certainly warming to Luke and Lucie Meier’s vision for the brand. For women who reject the current maximalist trend, who love neutral…
The Met Gala was the biggest news in fashion on Monday evening and it seems that as each year goes by, the red carpet choices get ever more OTT. This year’s exhibition theme (Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination) certainly lent itself to excess with a wild mix of angels, bishops, noviciates, a few…
It was like a trip down memory lane at the Prada Resort show in New York as Miuccia Prada and her team revisited the geeky, awkward, but hugely influential collections that the label gave us in the 1990s.
Pre-summer, resort, cruise. Call it what you will, but in Chanel’s case last week, Cruise seemed like just the right name. Karl Lagerfeld chose to show his latest collection in the Grand Palais, Paris, with the set design looking less palais, more cruise liner.
Designers are taking an adventurous path for AW18 shoes and bots, sticking with some established favourites and also going in new directions. And role-play is big news as our shoes carry us into cowboy country, help us live an urban sports lifestyle, or make us act like a style star in can’t-miss-them power prints that…
Fashion Month saw designers ringing the changes with topwear for the new season as the bustier turned into a star item as it cropped up for all hours of the day.
Oh for the days when parkas reigned supreme. It was all so easy back then as the parka took a starring role in any outerwear strategy while ‘traditional’ coats were, well, a bit too traditional to generate excitement.
Alexander McQueen showed on Monday with Sarah Burton offering up a much more wearable vision than you would expect from the label. A brand that was once known for its over the top eveningwear offer is gradually turning itself into something that women can wear for their everyday lives, albeit as long as those lives…
If reports are to be believed, Stella McCartney is planning to buy back the half of her company that she doesn’t own from partner/backer Kering and go solo. That’s a huge step in the modern luxury sector where brand ownership is nowadays more often about megasized conglomerates.
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