clothes
The secret to dressing exceptionally well
As I scribble these words on a train to London, I’m wearing a lightweight Italian wool suit, a shirt from…
How to dress a queen
The problem with exhibiting costumes is well known. Should the mannequins be lifelike with human features, or faceless? What about…
Lounge pants
At the Austrian embassy in Naples, a German diplomatist asked the great beauty Madame de Ventadour if she had been…
This V&A show, about fashion’s fascination with the natural world, will seduce and appal
One of the prettiest pieces in the V&A exhibition Fashioned from Nature is a man’s cream waistcoat, silk and linen,…
The moths are coming!
After this mild winter, you can expect a clothes-ruining epidemic. They’ve already got my best suit
