Category: Fashion

It’s January, and the cliches are in full swing: it’s cold, dark, dry, you’re waiting for that next payslip … It doesn’t help that this month collides with the latest menswear fashion season. There’s nothing like scrolling Instagram with last night’s leftovers, watching a flurry of glamorous shows, parties and way out of budget trends […]

Paul Smith regularly takes inspiration from his travels but for his latest collection, shown in Paris on Wednesday afternoon, he stuck a little closer to home. The amateur photography collection of his dad, Harold B Smith, served as his starting point. Guests entered the venue through a mocked-up dark room complete with buckets of emulsion, […]

It’s a go-to shop for cheap knickers and designer dupes, but now Primark hopes to become the top destination for clothing designed for those with a range of disabilities. In a first for the budget high street shop, it is releasing a 49-piece line of womenswear and menswear, adapted from its bestselling items to suit […]

In the Capitol rotunda, the incoming first lady was nowhere to be seen. Technically, Melania Trump was in attendance, but she chose to make herself almost invisible. Her dark boater hat was worn so low that it threw her entire face into shadow, and made eye contact with cameras or guests impossible. Matched with severe, […]

For 50 years, Giorgio Armani has only ever wanted “to dress real men, not an invented character who only exists on the runway”. Speaking before launching his autumn collection in Milan, this may have sounded a strange thing to say before a fashion show, but it does explain why the Italian designer has rarely deviated […]

The Australian Open, much like the cast of characters who step on to the sunshine-soaked courts every January, has its own sense of style. Over the decades, it has evolved to have more in common with the neon glamour of the US Open than the buttoned-up all-white tradition of Wimbledon, but energetically it lands somewhere […]

The art direction and photographs of Oliviero Toscani were provocative not for what they showed – real life, he said, complex and contradictory – but where they were seen. The images, subjects ranging from a bloodied newborn baby to the condemned of death row, would have been unremarkable on the editorial pages of a classic […]

The average TikTok user spends almost one hour each day on the app. However, the screen time of American users is about to be rapidly reduced, as the app is set to be banned in the US. On Friday the US Supreme Court rejected an appeal against a law that would see the social media […]

The day before the US presidential inauguration, it was impossible for Miuccia Prada to avoid the question. When designing her collection, just how much was fashion’s most radical intellectual thinking about Donald Trump? Speaking backstage at her show on the opening weekend of men’s fashion week in Milan, the 75-year-old designer, who grew up a […]

These days, I have no energy for the steps a properly made-up face requires. Don’t get me wrong, I admire anyone wearing a painstakingly applied maquillage right now. But like I said, zero energy. “Ease” is my word for the month. A blusher that works on the lips, a tinted moisturiser with SPF, a face […]