Category: Fashion

Where can you find the author Daphne du Maurier and the sculptor Phyllida Barlow, along with the actor Tippi Hedren and the costume designer Edith Head? Only at London fashion week. All four women were muses for designers on the third day of catwalks. Barlow’s uncompromising art was the inspiration at Roksanda, where vast ballgowns […]

From Ozwald Boateng to Martine Rose, the UK has produced some of the most high-profile Black designers in men’s fashion. But London fashion week, which took place in the capital this weekend and focuses on womenswear, is noticeably lacking when it comes to Black female designers. Out of a total of nearly 60 shows, only […]

It was a blaze that left two people dead and destroyed the fabric of one of the world’s largest secondhand clothes markets. It also wiped out the livelihoods of tens of thousands of people in a matter of hours. Six weeks on from the 1 January fire in Ghana’s capital, Accra, the aluminium roofing has […]

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Inside story Hades have worked with UK charity, Women in Prison, to run a workshop at HMP Styal, Cheshire, and collaborate on a limited run of blankets decorated with a poem written by one of the workshop attendees. Profits from the blankets will go the charity, which supports women affected by the criminal justice system. […]

I bet you know very few people who don’t own a single pair of trainers. Even the most cursory glance at people’s feet on the street, in the office or, occasionally, on a red carpet (Spike Lee is never not in his Air Jordans) is proof that they have transcended their original purpose. The Guardian’s […]

During World War Two I remember standing in total darkness in a corridor at our home in Versailles, listening to the bombs. I was two years old. The sound scared me so much that my parents sent me to their dear friends’ farm in Normandy, where I stayed for a long time. They called me […]

Beneath the glitter and sequins and extra-long false eyelashes, the bald truth at London fashion week is of an industry overshadowed by the luxury might of Europe and the US. Many designers have closed their doors, or cannot afford to splash out on a show. At just four days long, London fashion week has shrunk […]

Benedick in a bedazzled belt and matching sparkly shoes, Claudio clad in a gold lamé cropped co-ord. Much Ado About Nothing may be more than 400 years old but Jamie Lloyd’s current spin in London’s West End plants it very much in the modern day. Key to its contemporary update? The costumes, which look as […]

There’s a lot of concern around teenagers and skincare at the moment. Children who are barely out of Matey bubble bath are suddenly pleading for £80 moisturisers and anti-ageing serums that are wholly inappropriate for their bouncy, line-free skins – and some brands are marketing aggressively and irresponsibly in their direction. So it gladdened my […]