It’s no secret that fashion is a fickle game: as soon as a trend becomes truly popular and is adopted by Adrian Chiles or the cast of The Apprentice, it holds little interest for the style set. About a year ...
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Link to video: How to wear grown-up crop tops Fashion is ruthless in killing off perfectly nice-looking trends simply because they’ve become too easy and comfortable. The fashion police are feared with good reason: they will turn against us, the people, ...
Read More »Backstage at Victoria Beckham’s New York fashion week show
New York fashion week 2014: style lessons from the Big Apple From China to Haiti, from models to counselors, New York fashion week attracts a crowd as international as they are diverse
Read More »Have we reached peak beard?
If, like me, you are a staunch pogonophile and do not believe there is a single man who cannot be improved with a beard (see David Mitchell), these are happy times indeed. At the Oscars in March, Ben Affleck, George ...
Read More »Duchess of Cambridge shines in yellow in a nod to Australia’s national colours
She’s a global style icon whose outfit choices – and savvy ability to seamlessly mix high street with high-end fashion – have become more coveted than those of A-list celebrities and models. The royal trio arriving at Sydney airport. Photograph: ...
Read More »Tall to petite: Why does the British high street do ‘niche’ fashion sizes so well?
According to the UK’s last National Sizing Survey, the average British female is 5ft 3.75in tall and weighs 10.25st. She has size six feet, a 34in waist and 40in hips. As a woman who stands at well over 6ft and ...
Read More »From Apple products to DIY and fashion: how grey became the colour of the decade
At Topshop in London’s Oxford Circus, the outlook is misty. Faded varsity sweatshirts and charcoal leggings hang on the rails. Teenage girls weave in and out of the aisles dressed in grey-marl jogging bottoms. Outside, office workers charge down the ...
Read More »What fashion awaits older women on the British high street?
Remember how I said I’d go shopping? Well, I’ve been to Canary Wharf on a Saturday morning, which sounds like utter madness, but at weekends the Wharf is a surprisingly calm place because the people who work there aren’t there, ...
Read More »Victoria Beckham at 40: our writers pick her five best fashion moments in pictures
My favourite dress, ever, chosen by Hadley Freeman Choosing my favourite Beckham design took less than one second. This dress is not just my favourite Beckham dress, it’s my favourite dress I own, full-stop. It’s from her diffusion line, Victoria ...
Read More »Fashion-conscious men warned we may have reached ‘peak beard’
Hirsute men have been warned their attractiveness to potential partners may fade as facial hair becomes more prevalent, in a scenario researchers have called “peak beard”. Research conducted by the University of NSW finds that, when people are confronted by ...
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