The top I’m wearing here isn’t in the shops – it’s from my own wardrobe and about five years old, so you can’t buy it. So it goes against the No 1 rule of fashion journalism: in order to be ...

Give chilly weather the cold shoulder with our selection of the best outerwear

The stakes are high when it comes to sustainable fashion, and the UK’s newest addition is set to raise them even higher this week. Allbirds, the San Francisco-based shoe brand that makes its trainers out of eucalyptus, wool and sugar ...

It says something, our times as they are, that a fictional female assassin from the BBC drama Killing Eve is being cited alongside models, actors, royals and influencers as style inspiration this season. Villanelle’s fashion sense is uncategorisable; put her ...

Helen Seamons Main image: Thu 18 Oct 2018 02.00 EDT

A VA exhibition celebrating the life and work of the fashion designer Christian Dior is expected to be the largest retrospective on the French fashion house ever staged in the UK when it opens next year. Sketch by Christian Dior ...

I’m looking at the man in the mirror. And he looks great, to be honest. It’s how I feel I should look, when I am at my most optimistic. There’s a smooth sheen across my cheeks. My eyes are bright, ...

Here is a look that is deceptively difficult. A gentle pop of pale pink, it should be the simplest of things, like a subtle sweep of blusher or a delicate French manicure. But it requires at least a week of ...

I’m on an adventure trip in Malawi – part holiday, part work and lots of wilderness. It’s been 10 days of sensory overload, from trekking through burning fires in forests higher than Ben Nevis to DJ-ing in a sandstorm. I’ve ...

Helen Seamons and Jo Jones Main image: From Marc Jacobs: Unseen. Photograph by Robert Fairer. Sat 13 Oct 2018 18.45 EDT