Category: Fashion

All the best looks – from brooches to a bubble dress – on the red carpet at the 97th Academy Awards in Los Angeles Matt Fidler Morwenna Ferrierand Chloe Mac Donnell Main image: Ariana Grande takes a selfie on arrival Photograph: Michael Buckner/Penske Media/Getty Images Mon 3 Mar 2025 01.18 CET Last modified on Mon 3 […]

With his usual Sunday slot falling on the last day of Milan fashion week, Giorgio Armani always has the last word after a week of shows. As the collections played out against a particularly tumultuous political backdrop this season, his parting sentiment seemed more significant than ever. “I wanted to imagine new harmony because I […]

Life was a guise to the performance artist Leigh Bowery (1961-94). His looks were so outlandish, his costumes so teemingly various, they jam every inch of this huge retrospective. He is a gilded boy-god, a Christmas pudding on legs, a prosthetised Venus of Willendorf. He is a leather-clad dame in a zipped-up mask or a […]

We think before we buy these days, right? And so we damn well should. Shopping should not be a pastime. Style is eternal, not disposable. Each piece that has made the cut into my edit of March treasures has earned its place. A pair of £10 socks that are an instant wardrobe update. A £39 […]

Introversion is rarely useful, but it saved me a fortune in my younger years. So keenly did I loathe going to the shops that I just didn’t spend much money. I was perfectly happy, albeit a little bored and usually dressed in the same clothes. The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission […]

So you have a fancy event on the horizon. It might be the Oscars – but it’s probably not. Here are three looks featuring dresses you’ll want to wear more than once – and a smart enough jacket because, well, it’s still March Continue reading… Source link

I still remember the first copy of the Face magazine I bought at age 14. It was the January 1984 issue, with model and pop-rock singer Nick Kamen on the cover, in a ski cap. As a young kid, I bought magazines weekly, starting with Look-in, a preteen music and television magazine, followed by the […]

For decades, consumption of fashion has accelerated alongside a rapid decline in the quality of clothes. Australians are the largest consumers of fast fashion in the world, and we dispose of our clothes with an intensity that reflects this. The simplest antidote to fashion’s impacts is wearing clothes for longer. A 2017 study found extending […]

Call it the revenge of the middle-class, middle-aged women. The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. A recent report found that women aged between 40 and 50 are doing more exercise than women half their age. According to a UK study by Vitality, […]

Most of us have clothes in our wardrobe that we never wear but can’t quite let go of. I have a daffodil yellow tweed shift dress with buttons down the front that I bought about five years ago and have worn, I think, three times. Every time I open my wardrobe, it catches my eye […]