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Avocado toast trainers: who wants to wear their breakfast on their feet?

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Name: Shadow 6000 “Saucamole” trainers. Appearance: Well butters. Beg your pardon? Pants, sucky, woeful, horribad. Why so? The upper is constructed of snot-coloured leather atop a hairy suede brown layer to simulate the millennial’s favourite breakfast, which is … Hold ...

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Burberry’s noose hoodie is part of a shameful fashion tradition | Morwenna Ferrier

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A year ago Gucci put an offensive jumper on their Milan catwalk, although it took that long to actually cause offence. The wool balaclava jumper was black with a cut-out mouth and red lips which, when pulled up over the ...

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How to wear: vests | Priya Elan

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In a recent episode of the US sitcom I’m Sorry, Andrea Savage is shocked to see her husband casually stroll into the kitchen wearing a vest. For British viewers, the shock is compounded by the fact she calls it a ...

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Daniel Lee makes mark of his own in debut at helm of Bottega Veneta

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The most breathlessly hyped debut in this month of fashion shows was not a new urban streetwear label, or an avant-garde couture house. It was for Bottega Veneta, a venerable Italian brand rooted in leather craftsmanship. The buzz at Bottega ...

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Beauty tips: putting the focus on both eyes and lips

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Eyes or lips? At Chanel’s couture show, loosely inspired by David Bowie and 18th-century fashion, makeup artist Lucia Pica threw out the rule that says you can’t have both. There is something glorious about looking “done”, the audacious sister of ...

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Munroe Bergdorf: ‘The more trans models become visible, the more they become normalised’

I started in modelling around 2011 at a time when the fashion industry was really interested in androgyny, but there weren’t any conversations going on about trans models, apart from maybe Lea T, modelling for Givenchy. She was the exception ...

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Eau, yes: the best perfumes for spring/summer 2019 – in pictures

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Styling Melanie Wilkinson, photography David Newby Main image: This season’s new perfumes in pictures. Photograph: David Newby/The Guardian Tue 19 Feb 2019 10.00 EST

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Kaiser Karl: 12 moments that made Lagerfeld a legend

1954, wins the Woolmark prizeAn overachiever and proud of it Karl Lagerfeld in 1954, winning best coat award at the Woolmark prize. Photograph: Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images Karl Lagerfeld moved to Paris from his native Hamburg as a teenager and, ...

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Kaiser Karl: 12 moments that made Lagerfeld a legend

1954, wins the Woolmark prizeAn overachiever and proud of it Karl Lagerfeld in 1954, winning best coat award at the Woolmark prize. Photograph: Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images Karl Lagerfeld moved to Paris from his native Hamburg as a teenager and, ...

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Kaiser Karl: 12 moments that made Lagerfeld a legend

1954, wins the Woolmark prizeAn overachiever and proud of it Karl Lagerfeld in 1954, winning best coat award at the Woolmark prize. Photograph: Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images Karl Lagerfeld moved to Paris from his native Hamburg as a teenager and, ...

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