Barbra Streisand once waltzed in without ceremony, Jimi Hendrix was a customer, and John Lennon’s white limo would sometimes pull up outside. Salman Rushdie called…
View More Beehives and Biba: 60s fashion comes out swinging in 2024Category: Fashion
The big idea: why going shopping is due a comeback
Here’s a funny thing. The less we go to the shops, the more we shop. We buy more stuff than ever, now that we can…
View More The big idea: why going shopping is due a comeback‘Bowie said he’d sell his soul to be famous’: Suzi Ronson on sex, ruthless ambition – and dyeing David’s hair red
One Saturday morning early in the summer of 1971, Suzi Ronson was busy at work at the Evelyn Paget hair salon on Beckenham High Street…
View More ‘Bowie said he’d sell his soul to be famous’: Suzi Ronson on sex, ruthless ambition – and dyeing David’s hair redYes, rugby shirts are in fashion – just make it clear you’re wearing it that way
The rugby shirt is the Breton top of 2024. I am entirely serious. Instead of Pablo Picasso or Brigitte Bardot in a navy and white…
View More Yes, rugby shirts are in fashion – just make it clear you’re wearing it that way‘Accidental style icon’: how Larry David became the older man’s fashion idol
When Curb Your Enthusiasm emerged in 2000, the cult sitcom’s irascible star and creator, Larry David, wasn’t exactly a bastion of style. But over the…
View More ‘Accidental style icon’: how Larry David became the older man’s fashion idolSecondhand clothing on track to take 10% of global fashion sales
Secondhand clothing sales are on track to make up a tenth of the global fashion market next year, as the cost of living crisis and…
View More Secondhand clothing on track to take 10% of global fashion salesKarl Lagerfeld’s futuristic Paris apartment sells for €10m
The futuristic Paris apartment of the late fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has been sold for €10m (£8.5m) at auction. The final price, €11m including…
View More Karl Lagerfeld’s futuristic Paris apartment sells for €10m‘Wear a skirt, be your own hero’: four men on their first time wearing the garment
Afew years ago when I was in the midst of moving into a new apartment, I cut my finger while slicing a tomato. It was…
View More ‘Wear a skirt, be your own hero’: four men on their first time wearing the garmentMicrominis, Twiggy and flamingos: the ‘fabulous’ story of Biba
Long before millennial pink walls and neon slogan signs filled people’s lives, there was Biba, one of the world’s first lifestyle brands. Now, 49 years…
View More Microminis, Twiggy and flamingos: the ‘fabulous’ story of BibaBoho is back: Chloé show marks revival of hippy-adjacent style
The jangle of a coin belt is the current mood music in fashion, because “boho chic”, the hippy-adjacent style made mainstream by Sienna Miller in…
View More Boho is back: Chloé show marks revival of hippy-adjacent style