Style & Fashion

Notes from the front line: Our experts analyse stars’ style sense at London Fashion Week

RITA ORA Hugh: Given über-model Cara Delevingne’s colonisation of 2013, the “Queen Delevingne” T-shirt is a savvy pick. (And Ora and Delevigne are “wifeys” – that’s BFFs in mockney, FYI – so you can stop those accusations of sycophancy now.)
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Paris Fashion Week: For Louis Vuitton, no logo is the new logo, and black is the new blonde

The backdrop to the catwalk was a wallpapered corridor, lined with heavy wooden doors through which models, including Kate Moss returning to the catwalk after a two-year break, emerged. As each model entered, the audience was afforded a glimpse at the lavish room sets projected
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Chanel highlights its dominant global presence during Paris Fashion Week

Lights twinkled across the map, presumably to pinpoint where the power-house  has a presence and little flags with the brands famed interlocking C’s were posted at intervals –  this could have been Lagerfeld’s way of telling us that Chanel is the most dominant
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Plastic: A clear winner

Take clear plastic panelling on shoes and sandals, for instance. Summer fashion has been given clarity for a few seasons now, thanks in part to Miuccia Prada (but, of course) who, for summer 2010, sent models down the Prada catwalk in translucent black and see-through plastic
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A clear winner

Take clear plastic panelling on shoes and sandals, for instance. Summer fashion has been given clarity for a few seasons now, thanks in part to Miuccia Prada (but, of course) who, for summer 2010, sent models down the Prada catwalk in translucent black and see-through plastic
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Boots and chains mark Lagerfeld’s global domination

Lights twinkled across the map, presumably to pinpoint where the power-house  has a presence and little flags with the brands famed interlocking C’s were posted at intervals –  this could have been Lagerfeld’s way of telling us that Chanel is the most dominant
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Karl Lagerfeld highlights Chanel’s dominant global presence during Paris Fashion Week

Lights twinkled across the map, presumably to pinpoint where the power-house  has a presence and little flags with the brands famed interlocking C’s were posted at intervals –  this could have been Lagerfeld’s way of telling us that Chanel is the most dominant
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Ri-ri for River Island: how much does Rihanna’s capsule collection reflect her personal style? (what, no brolly?)

The high street capsule she unveiled during London Fashion Week last month is billed as a range of pieces that Ri-Ri herself would wear, from casual jersey basics to denim cut-offs, slit skirts and a cutaway monokini. So far, so sassy. Nothing here jars with her public imag
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Betty Jackson: ‘I wear black all the time. It’s just laziness’

London Fashion Week started in a car park It was 1984; we were the brave new face of fashion and the British fashion industry was frightened to death of it: colourful wild prints, huge shoulder-pads, patterns mixed together and androgyny. The old infrastructure of British fashion
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Betty Jackson: ‘I wear black all the time. It’s just laziness’

London Fashion Week started in a car park It was 1984; we were the brave new face of fashion and the British fashion industry was frightened to death of it: colourful wild prints, huge shoulder-pads, patterns mixed together and androgyny. The old infrastructure of British fashion
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Star quality: Emulate this season’s biggest celebrity style icons, from Bowie to Beyoncé

The Thin White Duke has long been a point of reference in the world of fashion, thanks in part to the many personalities he has experimented with during his 40-year career. But thanks to a much-anticipated retrospective of his work opening at the Victoria Albert Museum later this
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Star quality: Emulate this season’s biggest celebrity style icons, from Bowie to Beyoncé

The Thin White Duke has long been a point of reference in the world of fashion, thanks in part to the many personalities he has experimented with during his 40-year career. But thanks to a much-anticipated retrospective of his work opening at the Victoria Albert Museum later this
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Let’s twist again: 2013’s 1960s redux

Marc Jacobs, both at his own label and Louis Vuitton, went for arty references from the decade, with Op-Art inspired black and white stripes at the former and chequerboard separates in monochrome, lemon yellow and palest nude at the latter. Moschino rather doffed its cap to
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Let’s twist again: 2013’s 1960s redux

Marc Jacobs, both at his own label and Louis Vuitton, went for arty references from the decade, with Op-Art inspired black and white stripes at the former and chequerboard separates in monochrome, lemon yellow and palest nude at the latter. Moschino rather doffed its cap to
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iStyle: The designer is making a killing

This, despite having been named by the Danish Crown Princess as the best designer in a country that holds increasing sway in the global fashion industry and has something of a stranglehold on British consciousness. Several icons of that culture-crush are fans of the brand – Sofie
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Spring awakening

Double breasted Shirt £25, burton.co.uk; blazer £125, massimodutti.com; trousers £40, riverisland.com Denim jacket Denim jacket £45, River Island, as before; shirt £35, frenchconnection.com All white T-shirt £8, sweater £79, Reiss, reiss.com; cream chinos £39.50, Gap, gap.eu
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Fur-clad rivals left green with envy as Stella McCartney sticks to eco-chic

Stella McCartney, well known for her vegan views, continued her ethical trend today as she presented her autumn/winter collection. While fur is more prevalent on the catwalk this season than it has been for years, she must be congratulated for her continuing commitment to avoid
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Fashion statement: when it comes to new rules, just stick with the old ones

So, too, the styling tips from the catwalk have permeated down – at first it was socks and stilettos, socks with a brogue and a tea dress. Socks in general, in fact. It was tricky, but we managed to subsume them into our sartorial vernacular. But now there comes a tide of faintly
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