December 2017

No brand, other than the monarchy, has traded more successfully on its British heritage than Burberry. But with the nation going through a soul-searching time, any label rooted in Britishness must also look inward and reassess. For Christopher Bailey, the

Then the “unspeakable happened” in America in November last year and he who was elected was elected, Gareth Pugh and his partner Carson McColl were in Washington to witness it all. But from a bad thing came a good thing:

Azzedine Alaïa is a diminutive Tunisian man habitually dressed in black cotton pyjamas, with a wide grin and a shock of black hair. He is also the greatest fashion designer in the world. Fashion designer isn’t really the right term

Broadly speaking, there are two types of rebel behaviour. Either making a lot of noise or just quietly getting on with whatever the rebel wants to see changed. We all know that, but we sometimes forget that, quiet or not,

Actress Noomi Rapace is known for taking on roles with such vigour that, during the months she’s filming, she detaches herself from the world around her entirely. She becomes a woman possessed. Take Lisbeth Salander, the heroine of The Girl

Junya Watanabe doesn’t really give interviews. Or at least rarely. “Send all questions to Paris first,” said the PR. “We’ll send them to Tokyo after that.” If Paris are the PR gatekeepers, Tokyo is high command. Every question you send

How do you make something out of nothing? How do you push yourself to do more than you thought possible? How do you create power where there was none before? How do you effect change on your own terms? The

Michele Hicks, Esther de Jong, Élise Crombez, Trish Goff, Kristina de Coninck, Kirsten Owen, Debra Shaw – in total, 56 models of then and now came together on the same catwalk in Paris to celebrate Belgian designer Dries Van Noten’s