Fashion
Fashion statement
Clothes with slogans on them are a sure sign of a bore
Notes from the Catwalk
It seems as though I have just been on some grand tour of the absurd. It helps that I work…
Smock and awe
Somerset House, a handsome Georgian palace on the Thames, was once the office of the Inland Revenue, and the courtyard was…
Death to hipsters
Take heart: the age of the stupid beard is coming to an end
Dear Mary
Q. I have been trying to get an apprenticeship in fashion for over a year without success. I just had…
Barometer
Paisley power Paisley pyjamas were in the news. While associated with the town in Renfrewshire, whose mills produced the patterns from 1805,…
Fashion victim
At a birthday dinner over the weekend I was introduced to this delightful party girl of a certain age whose…
Dear Mary
Q. When someone gives you anti-ageing cream as a present, is that an insult or a compliment? — A.O., Provence…
The freedom of the heat
Those of us who have been struggling to endure the recent heat should turn to L.P. Hartley’s classic coming-of-age novel The…
Shades of contempt
People who wear sunglasses all the time seem to radiate disdain
Dress to impress
People will go to extraordinary lengths to get into a nightclub. Nowadays you must wear something tight, and look slinky.…
Pull & Bear
‘This’ll make you laugh,’ said my husband, sounding like George V commenting on an Impressionist painting. ‘Someone in the Telegraph…
Not just a pretty dress
Every fashion era has its monster and in ours it’s Karl Lagerfeld, a man who has so emptied himself on…
It’s the summer of the topless man,and there’s nothing we can do to stop it
Topless men. What does that mean, then? I was opposite one on the tube the other day, heading north from…
