Size is body-positive news right now. High street and online retailers like ASOS and H&M stock plus-size ranges and the luxury runway – once the exlusive domain of size-six-to-zero under models – is slowly shifting to the clarion call for body inclusivity. Bigger-bodied consumers are feeling empowered and they want

Technology has always been a crucial component of fashion, driving manufacturing and design processes, advertising and marketing, and the style of the clothes themselves. In terms of the construction process, CAD has expanded both the speed and accuracy of design, while the industrialization and computerization of manufacturing techniques have enabled

There are trends that you should not consider following. I, for instance – a sober Brit – will NEVER be seen in a Christmas jumper. Not one of those Christmas jumpers anyway [the Tesco‘s kind], and certainly not one that my wife chooses for me, simply as a matter of

Saint Laurent‘s menswear presents an ideology that is not only challenging to attain but is also difficult [despite or because of its similitude to the womenswear line] to describe. Both hone jet-black sveltness; drawing from the same history: the beat movement, the velvet revolution, the pre-modern gothic.  In womenswear, this

The Italian stable has shifted subtley for S/S 2022: In with those androgynous templates and in too with fun futurism Gucci‘s ascent to the pinnacle of Italian fashion has been – despite the nuanced hand of holding company Kering – an idiosynchratic journey given the label’s tendency – under Alessandro

Chanel, like all fashion houses, has a look [Gucci is leather and interlocking horsebit, YSL is 1960s cafe polemics and Burberry will always – in part – be in the trenches, to traverse three countries in one sentence]. In the nineteen nineties, when fashion became of interest to the emerging