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  • Kate, 1999

    AnOther To Do List | June Previews

    Take a look at all the fashion events we're looking forward to this month.

  • Charles James and Madame Eta

    Insiders | Andrew Bolton, Fashion Curator

    With the ascendance of Michelle Obama as a modern-day style icon, it seems apt that the theme of this year’s annual Costume Institute extravaganza at the Metropolitan Museum in New York saw a return to its roots. American Woman: Fashioning...

  • Abby Lee backstage at the Chanel Cruise show

    Collections Digest | Chanel Cruise

    With Chanel’s latest cruise collection, Karl Lagerfeld firmly proved that high fashion equals major fun – sun or no sun. St Tropez was the choice of destination for the event. “The town remains beautiful, untouched and has always been...

  • A note from Frida Giannini to editor in chief, Jefferson Hack

    Handwriting Analysis | Frida Giannini

    The writing reveals a woman of flair and good taste who is inspired by her creative imagination. However her sense of reality and practical common sense keep her well grounded and judgements are reasoned and well balanced...

  • Kimberly Ovitz A/W10

    Incoming | Kimberly Ovitz

    Art history graduate Kimberly Ovitz showcased her A/W10 collection during New York fashion week. The detailed textures, exquisite fabrics and subtle-yet-unusual patterns demonstrate her appreciation of minimalist art and design, as well as...

  • Burberry Prosum A/W 2010

    In the Cut | The Aviator

    Among the trends cleared for take-off this season is the humble-yet-iconic flying jacket. Christopher Bailey based his entire collection around Burberry's archival aviator jacket, cropping them, out-sizing them, and producing them in a...

  • Yohji Yamamoto A/W2010

    In the Cut | The Length of a Skirt

    There is much comment on the ups and downs of fashion’s turbulent relationship with the financial markets – when stock is up, so are hemlines. But this season’s long skirts, seen at Ann Demeulemeester and Yohji Yamamoto, reflect much more...

  • Olivier Polge

    Insiders | Olivier Polge, Perfumier

    With its unusual core of violet leaf underscored by woody chypre notes of patchouli, bergamot, oak moss and labdanum; Balenciaga Paris, the long awaited first olfactory creation from Balenciaga under Nicolas Ghesquière’s reign, beguiles...

  • Hussein Chalayan A/W10

    In the Cut | Space-Age Sculpturalism

    Designers came face to face with fashion's final frontier this season, with space-age sculptural pieces that owed more to 2001: A Space Odyssey than to A/W10. Hussein Chalayan gave us swirling tube dresses, embellished with intergalactic...

  • Giambattista Valli in Gareth Pugh

    In Pictures | 40 Years of Browns Fashion

    This year Browns celebrates 40 years since Joan Burstein CBE and her husband Sydney founded the brand. In a special exhibition curated and set designed by Simon Costin, its history is seen through the fashion that it has supported...

  • Julie Verhoeven

    Insiders | Julie Verhoeven, Artist and Designer

    Lascivious, frivolous, playful, at times overtly sexual; the girls (and they are primarily girls) of artist and designer Julie Verhoeven’s surreal world are no shrinking violets. Instead, rendered in elegant, serpentine lines and smudgy...

  • Undercover

    Object of Desire | Undercover Fragrances

    We present an exclusive showing of a film homage to two new fragrances by Jun Takahashi for Undercover in collaboration with Comme des Garçons.