Fashion

'If he wanted to dress Manchester, he should have remained Manchester Mayor,' a Conservative Home columnist has sniffed

You just don’t. What you might need is a second-hand smartphone, which is not only environmentally more friendly, but also much cooler

A new exhibition celebrates the absurd brilliance of designer Elsa Schiaparelli, creator of the shoe hat and the skeleton dress

She used to be a genuine rebel like Birkin, Sevigny or Solange. Now she’s just a marketing tool

An icon’s death marks the end of the era of brilliant individuals who lived like deities

The V&A’s new exhibition shows Marie Antoinette as both icon and casualty of luxury

The fashion giant put its models on the Milan runway in slippers that looked eerily Kohlapuris. Could the 800-year-old tradition finally receive recognition?

One design house used an AI model for its latest campaign. The photographer Rankin says everyone’s at it

The days of La Dolce Vita are long gone – people no longer aspire to classic elegance

The sari is given a radical reimagining in a bold Birmingham exhibition

In the shadow of the bomb, two men fought to create the smallest swimsuit in the world

An adventurous romantic life lent almost a Zelig-like quality to the writer, constantly drawing her towards the centre of events

An industry worth £110 billion a year is being crippled by red tape, lost access to skilled European professionals and lack of access to the EU market

The Frenchman won seven Grand Slam singles titles in the 1920s before becoming an innovator in the world of sportswear and tennis equipment

John Galliano and the shadow of antisemitism

It would do men a lot of good to go out in a dress for a few days and feel the wind of change it occasions

“My life didn’t please me, so, I created my life,” she once said, and it was with scissors that she did so

There’s no doubt that she knew how to make clothes in every sense – but the idea that she represented a spirit of rebelliousness is frankly ridiculous

In fetishising the trainer, the devotee makes of it a transitional object: something that eases the troubling developmental stage between childhood and adulthood

Celebrated as one of Europe’s leading fashion writers, the Italian was better known for her sheer presence on the scene