Sally Cameron Griffiths has given up buying new clothes for a year. Instead she’ll be altering her existing wardrobe, starting with a plain black jumperI love clothes, but I’ve given up buying new ones for a year. My reasons are similar to my colleague Patrick Barkham’s: shrink my carbon footprint, save money, and stop buying [...]
The catwalks were dripping in moonshine, spangles and international shoppersVideo: The Christian Dior haute couture showCan clothes ever be art? Paris haute couture week seems a good moment to get to the bottom of this one. (The dresses at haute couture start at £20,000, so I can’t pass the time shopping, and am thus forced [...]
First Lady Michelle Obama is propping up domestic businesses by wearing American designers, this time Isaac Mizrahi to the State of the Union address.
Love the music of Abba? Or prefer to gawp at flared lederhosen? Either way you’ll be well served at Abba World, a new exhibition showcasing the music, props and clothes of the Swedish pop sensations
Raf Simons experimented with methods of conforming clothes to the body, and this season he borrowed tools from activewear: Velcro and snaps.
Raf Simons experimented with methods of conforming clothes to the body, and this season he borrowed tools from activewear: Velcro and snaps.
Actually, there is an upside to its indifference to the female bodyWhy are so many fashion trends impossible to wear if you have breasts larger than a B-cup size?Meredith, LondonAh, Meredith, you have cannily stumbled on that interesting split-screen effect of the fashion world, the dichotomy between misogyny and empowerment. Is fashion a [...]
In the navy, as envisioned by designer Tomoaki Okaniwa, clothes are well crafted in cutting-edge fabrics, such as a down vest with taped seams.
Designer Tomoaki Okaniwa’s clothes are well crafted in cutting-edge fabrics, such as a down a hooded lama skin parka or an over-dyed cotton jumpsuit.
More snow flurries are on the way, so Perri Lewis has devised a simple craft project to keep your hands warmA pile of old clothes next to my sewing machine is waiting to be cut up, dyed and stitched. There’s a T-shirt that is going to look much better with puffy sleeves, a white dress [...]