When she is not striding down the catwalk, the model Naomi Preizler is often to be found backstage, sketching her world in all its extraordinary glory. BY Kate Finnigan | 05 February 2012 Fashion’s not all glamour, you know.
Africa Fashion Week is becoming an established part of the international calendar. The photographer and style director Michael Roberts, on the judging panel at the last event in Johannesburg, describes some of the highlights BY Michael Roberts | 04 February 2012 Africa Fashion Week, a national event since 2006, is a relatively late addition to the worldwide network of fashion weeks, but the opening ceremony, held in a Johannesburg hotel, is blessed with fashionistas in numbers equal to those at similar ...
The glamorous designer, Diane von Furstenberg’s love of Surrealist art is laid bare in her spring/summer 2012 advertising campaign. BY Ellie Pithers | 02 February 2012 It transpires Louise Gray was not the only designer taking references from Salvador Dalí for spring/summer 2012; photos released this day reveal that Diane von Furstenburg was also inspired by the moustached maestro, famed for his melting clocks and lobster telephones, in the ad campaign for her eponymous line.
David Beckham has announced his days of appearing naked are over – and admits his kids hate seeing his underwear adverts. BY Luke Leitch | 01 February 2012 He hopes to become as large a force in underwear as Calvin Klein.
Welcome to the breathtaking brilliance of British fashion design – about to be unleashed at London Fashion Week in a fortnight. BY Lisa Armstrong | 01 February 2012 This may look like a classic case of Roundhead versus Cavalier.
What do you do when your favourite fragrance is discontinued? Weep… BY Gareth Wyn Davies | 30 January 2012 It is difficult, not to state ruinously expensive, having any kind of meaningful, lasting relationship with Jules.
Actress Elizabeth Olsen might have her huge sisters Mary-Kate and Ashley to thank for her fashion heritage, but her own personal style is ticking along just nicely.
Justine Picardie on why fashion is seeing stars right now. BY Justine Picardie | 29 January 2012 It is a convention of fashion (and, yes, this is a business as prone to conformism as any other, despite protestations to the contrary) that one is either a wearer of spots or stripes, but not both.
Shop! Mary Portas is bamboozled by The Kooples BY Mary Portas | 28 January 2012 Good for a rapid rise in tough economic conditions Bad for the prices What is The Kooples?’ is the question this week’s shop asks itself on the opening page of its in-house magazine.
I kept seeing women wearing leather leggings and looking good; time to change the mantra regarding exactly who should be wearing them. BY Lisa Armstrong | 27 January 2012 If you’d suggested last year that I’d be seen conscious in a pair of leather leggings, I’d have asked what medication you were on.
The Valentino couture collection reminded us what has been missing for so long in fashion: charm. BY Lisa Armstrong | 26 January 2012 Watching Wednesday night’s Valentino show in Paris in the 19th century mansion once occupied by the Rothschilds made me realise what has been missing for so long in fashion: charm.
Karl Lagerfeld’s flight of fancy was a lesson in striking the balance between luxe and flash. BY Lisa Armstrong | 25 January 2012 It took builders five days to construct the 247-seater Air Chanel plane, set deep in the bowels of the Grand Palais for yesterday’s couture show.
With one day left until the long-awaited KARL collection launches on Net-a-porter.com, take a sneak peek at what the fashion maestro has dreamed up. BY Belinda White | 24 January 2012 With just one day left until KARL – the accessible line from the house of Karl Lagerfeld – hits on-line luxury fashion boutique Net-a-porter.com, we have got a sneak preview of what dedicated followers of the Kaiser will be able to get their leather gloved hands on – styled by ...
Tom Ford and Christopher Bailey will sit on committee of the capital’s new, capitalised menswear event – LONDON COLLECTIONS: MEN. BY Luke Leitch | 22 January 2012 London is to get its own men’s fashion long weekend.
Marianne Brandi is head of design for Day Home, the interiors arm of the Danish brand Day Birger et Mikkelsen. The food at this bar at the Eden Rock hotel is the ideal on the island, devised by the French chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten.