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  • Rag & Bone mood board

    Womenswear Confidential | Rag & Bone S/S11

    The mood-board image represents a loose and relaxed silhouette with a muted, rustic colour palette. The focus is drawn to the luxurious cream knit in the foreground...

  • AnOther Magazine A/W10 Fashion Superstars, photography by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin

    Behind the Pages | AnOther Magazine A/W10: Fashion Superstars

    Featuring cover star Björk styled by Camilla Nickerson and photographed by Inez and Vinoodh. “She’s the only person we know who is completely connected with heaven and earth simultaneously,” say the photographers...

  • Still

    Vintage Style | Jane Birkin

    British actress and singer Jane Birkin gained permanent iconic status in 60s and 70s culture thanks to her role in the cult film Blow Up, and her much publicised marriage to French songwriter Serge Gainsbourg. In this summer’s film...

  • Film still of the Kirsty Emery collection

    Womenswear Confidential | Kirsty Emery, Future Fashion Part Six

    When Kirsty Emery finished her master’s degree at the Royal College of Art, it was no surprise to anyone except herself. Despite having no prior fashion design training, her talent was immediately obvious to her teachers and peers. Her...

  • Trousers from the Céline A/W10 collection

    In the Cut | Trousers

    It might seem rather simplistic to point out that trousers are back in fashion. To the layman, they never really left. But the international catwalks have been in the grip of a prolonged flirtation with dresses...

  • New York fashion week at the Lincoln Center

    Collections Digest | New York S/S11 Preview

    A day by day edit of what we're looking forward to during New York fashion week...

  • Coquette, Autumn/Winter 2004-2005, Prima Donna,

    AnOther To Do List | September Previews

    September is style season, with an assortment of exclusive fashion parties, launches and catwalk shows happening in all four corners of the globe this month. The big four scheduled fashion weeks look to set the mood, with prominent...

  • Film still of Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart in The Runaways

    Insiders | Carole Beadle, Costume Designer

    The thousands of teenagers who idolised rock star Joan Jett and her first band The Runaways did so from the pages of the NME and Circus, cutting out and sending away coupons for look-alike elephant foot flares, glittery halternecks and...

  • Preen A/W10

    In the Cut | The Colour Purple

    The autumn collections saw fashion, and designers, in humble mode – armies of models stepped out in subtle, minimal and restrained pieces, an act of penitence during a sartorial zeitgeist that has avoided frippery and flamboyance...

  • Yves Saint Laurent and Hussein Chalayan A/W10 collection look

    In the Cut | Capes

    Traditionally, autumn is the time for fashion to reveal what it has up its proverbial sleeve. But this season it didn't – because there were few sleeves to speak of. Designers eschewed the usual winter wardrobe staples of investment coats...

  • Film still of the Shao Yen Chen collection

    Womenswear Confidential | Shao-Yen Chen, Future Fashion Part Five

    Central Saint Martins graduate Shao-Yen Chen's all-white final MA show was influenced by his hometown of Yilan in Taiwan. Chen’s designs show the places that swatch experimentation can take you...

  • Film still of the Simone Sommer collection

    Womenswear Confidential | Simone Sommer, Future Fashion Part Four

    Simone Sommer, a graduate of the Royal College of Art, created a collection around simplicity with exquisite attention to detail. A colour scheme of butterscotch, cream and white creates a subtlety full of charm....