Fashion

Vivienne Westwood Red Label SS14 Collection: Painted faces and dishevelled hair, corsetry floral dresses and little net socks behind super high be-buckled shoes, jaunty tailoring and strapless satchels held as clutches. The Vivienne Westwood show was so much more than just about fashion. It was about society and the causes she champions with environmental advocate and model Lily Cole who …

Paul Smith Spring/Summer 2014: Paul Smith’s spring/summer 2014 collection was young, sassy and effortlessly timeless. He offered crisp striped shirting tucked into wide legged trousers with a rolled cuff that were as high quality as we expect from him – and right on the money of the boy-meets-girls trend that prevails – while Seventies-inspired dresses wafted beneath Panama hats for …

The Jasper Conran show provided a ray of sunshine through the incessant rain filled day that was day one of London Fashion Week. Think preppy collars, capri pants, pressed shirts and pants; and fifties inspired silhouettes in block prints, subtle peplums, pastel Ikat prints and sunshine-yellow stripes.

Shopping the Plaid Trend: It looks like Summer’s winding down (sad face) but it’s not all bad because Autumn is almost here and with it, the tried and tested plaid trend. Kate Middleton rocked classic tartan earlier on in the year and just this week, Victoria Beckham was spotted wearing her plaid skirt with a long sleeved navy top. It’s …

Metallic fashion trend: Metallics are big this season; from fashion trends through to eye make-up, the season’s collections are full of silver, gold and bronze, with gold and silver embellishment being a huge focus. Shop the metallic fashion trend on the high street with the best it has to offer. Here are our picks of the best Metallic Fashion out …

Winter Spring 2013 – 2014 Collection. Diamonds may be a little out of our price range but the  kind of bling offered by Tresor Paris will do very nicely. I was at the launch of the new Winter Spring Collection 2013 – 2014 and boy, was I impressed. Tresor Paris put on a fantastic spread, not just in regards to its …

InStyle Magazine US have joined forces with shoe brand, Nine West to produce a collection of pumps, flats and booties which launches today. The collection is made up of 10 styles in 26 colours and fabrics — from stiletto leopard calf hair to flat black suede. A magazine and a shoe brand collaborating in such a manner is a first …

Vionnet Collection The technical problems that delayed Vionnet’s demi-couture presentation by a full day were hardly minor: Faulty thread had ruined the collection, requiring seamstresses to forego sleep and recreate many of the 15 dresses in under 48 hours. The capes and gowns were inspired by the archive of couture great Madeleine Vionnet, and the illustrations Thayaht made of her …

Viktor & Rolf Collection It will be difficult for Viktor Horsting & Rolf Snoeren to ever top their Maggie-Rizer-on-a-turntable “Russian Doll” collection, and the fashion euphoria it unleashed back in 1999. Returning to the couture stage on Wednesday night after a 13-year absence, the Dutch designers went for something altogether more contemplative, yet mesmerizing in its own way. Twenty models …

Versace Collection The way a fundamentalist believes in redemption or a Buddhist monk in karma, that’s how Donatella Versace believes in glamour. To the core. Glamour is not superficial; Lord knows, it’s not accidental. For her couture collection, Versace wanted “to go back to real glamour,” the kind that pulsed through the photographs of Horst and Man Ray, “that black-and-white …