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This season Erdem imagined the Queen in New York’s Harlem - one of those “what if?” situations prompted by the designer discovering a snap of HRH with legendary jazz musician Duke Ellington in the 1950s. Ellington would end up writing

Knitwear. We’re suddenly very taken with it again after Pringle of Scotland’s outing yesterday. Particularly fascinating is the concept of knitwear for hot weather - as designer Fran Stringer assured us, it's “a thing.” Proof was the collection. This was

Black is not the first colour you think of when you think of Ashish, if anything, it's the last. But given that the Martin Luther King Jr quote: “only in the darkness can you see the stars” was the only thing

The Marques’Almeida girl is, like Chaka Khan, every woman. Maybe not every single woman, that’s probably best left to Chaka herself, but certainly a lot of them - in spirit, at least. Lovely Marta and Paulo talked about this thread

See now, buy now? Pssh. For their first London show, Nicopanda took it to the next level. Teaming up with Amazon Fashion, Nicola Formichetti allowed viewers to literally place orders for pieces as they walked the runway, which would then

House coats and slip dresses and something approaching a peignoir: welcome young man to the world of suburban sex clubs and soft core fetish. Step inside Christopher Kane's saucy world for spring where shiny ciré skirts are worn with satin blouses

Colour so good it’s edible. You want to eat it. Candy shop-shades of cerise and red, yellow and electric blue sit alongside a palette cleanser of pure, bridal white. Roksanda always feels super polished. These clothes look expensive, glam, and

Topical *and* political: the show notes left on our seats at the Antonio Berardi show were simple and to the point: a quote from Roosevelt reminding us all that we, too, are all immigrants somewhere in our family timeline. And this was

More avant garde adventures with Mr Chalayan. Bit of a lie actually, the first half of the show was actually quite "normal" for the cerebral designer - normal in the sense it was real clothes, a study in brilliantly cut

The set at Anya Hindmarch was a house. Notes called it a symphony to suburbia. Having come from suburbia, I can attest that this is actually very much unlike suburbia, which is entirely depressing, and this was not depressing at

More riffs on Britishness at Margaret Howell. It's the fashion equivalent of a warm bath - you always sort of know what you're getting, but it doesn’t make it any less pleasurable. Plenty to like here. A nice silhouette. There

Stream these films immediately: Mystic Pizza, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink. Tragi-excellent American high school films celebrating simpler times, where girls dressed up in shiny hi-tops and bombers to flirt with boys in sporty cars. More of this later. Mr Giorgio Armani is

In no particular order: Soho, nightclub, marabou, bustier, supermodel. So far, so us. Now, we could delve deeper into the inspiration - Corinne Day, Madame Jojo's, Revuebar, the days before Instagram - but, quite frankly, all you really need to

A distinct whiff of cowboy at Versus Versace today. Cowboys at the beach? How else to explain the appearance of a speedo with “VERSUS” spelt out in diamante on the behind? If anyone can get away with it, it’s Donatella. The lady

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