Author: Richard Gray

Life can’t be all that bad! Imagine you’re a shoe. Close your eyes and think: I am a shoe. A red Camper shoe. I am a soft red shoe made of some kind of new fabric that’s a bit like

“It’s like that vintage find you’ll never find!” “That show’s got Anna Wintour written all over it!” Just two of the compliments we paid British Coach designer, Stuart Vevers, when we ran backstage to congratulate him after his AW17 show.

Couture-to-wear: is that a phrase? It should be and is quite appropriate when we introduce this next brand or, rather, atelier. Santoni is arguably the quality cobbler in Italy and, after 42 years, the father- then son-led handmade-footwear business now

“Tough but soft, feminine yet powerful” – these are Jimmy Choo designer Sandra Choi’s words about the new collection, the first bits of which are hitting the best stores now. By tough she’s referring to the statuesque heel and the

Got your specs on? Then we’ll begin. Take your eyes to the top of this Petite Malle bag. See the black and white crimped-edge leather? This, says Nicolas Ghesquière, is based on the brogue. You know brogues: zigzag-trim leather and

Breaking possibly every law in fashion land, I squeezed my foot into this spike on wheels and loved every minute of it. Like a fat mum on sports day, my impressive tits (or as I like to call them, “sweater

The house of McQueen has always had a dark side and there’s something visceral about how the leather tendrils hang from this calf-leather box bag. At first glance, they look like party streamers, but look again: do you see an

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:

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

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

Like beautiful drugs, Calvin Klein clothes make you feel up and better. There’s no “sad”, no “down”, no mood swings. These looks are from Raf Simons’s first runway collection as the brand’s chief creative officer. That yellow fur covered in