Azzedine Alaia exhibition at the Design Museum
Having been a Lycra-and-leather-clad fashion student in the 1980s, I’ve always had a fondness for Azzedine Alaia’s work. Oh those joyful black and white images of supermodels wearin...
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What to wear right now: dark denim jeans
As a denim lover, I like my fabrics plain and simple; pared-back as opposed to pulverized, pre-worn or distressed. The best thing about denim is that it gets better with age.
Fashion and politics do mix
Talking politics and wearing leopard print, oh hang on a minute…. I know this is a place where women come to read about style but like many others I am deeply concerned about what’s going ...
An exhibition about northern style
A new exhibition at Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool is one of my must-sees early this year (it’s on until 19 March). North: Identity, Photography, Fashion includes the photographs of Shirley Baker...
Hands that have lived: Karen Walker & Advanced Style collaborate
My 52-year-old hands have their fair share of wrinkles, veins and age spots. I know I probably should have taken more care of them (years of cycling without sun screen hasn’t helped) but they ar...
Bill Cunningham: the legend
I don’t often re-issue old posts, but here’s one I wrote after seeing Bill Cunningham New York the movie. The original street style photographer died in New York yesterday, aged 87: Here�...
Older models: Jan de Villeneuve
Bingo, beer and crisps, looks like the perfect night out. 70-year-old model Jan de Villeneuve appeared in this week’s Stylist magazine, in a fashion shoot celebrating summer’s maximalist v...
50 years of fashion icon Twiggy
The Face of 1966, Twiggy is celebrating 50 years in fashion. Discovered as a 16-year-old schoolgirl, the model-turned-actor-singer-designer formerly known as Lesley Hornby remains a much-recognised fa...
Being inspired by the photography of Saul Leiter
If you’ve seen the Todd Haynes’ film Carol these pictures will feel very familiar. Beautifully shot by the cinematographer Ed Lachman, Carol was visually inspired by the work of the late p...
Wearing stripes, Bridget Riley and the seaside
Bridget Riley loves a good stripe. The 84-year-old Op Artist has been using them in her eye-popping artwork for over 50 years.
The True Cost: a fashion documentary to make you think
I was deeply moved by the London premiere of The True Cost, this week. And not just because Colin Firth was on the red carpet.
Savage Beauty at the V&A
Call me a Fashion Philistine, but having been a teenage goth by the time the nineties came around I was totally over my Macabre Period. Hence I didn’t really buy into Sensation-era Damien...