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From hands-free shoes to TikTok neighbour-shaming: this week’s fashion trends
From hands-free shoes to TikTok neighbour-shaming: this week’s fashion trends. What’s hot and what’s not in fashion this week
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Old-fashioned glamour meets psychedelic print as Prada shines in Milan
Old-fashioned glamour meets psychedelic print as Prada shines in MilanNowhere does beautifully strange quite as well as Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons in their womenswear collaboration The jewels of Prada’s autumn-winter 2021-22 women’s collection are tailored coats and soft stoles. Photograph: Reuters
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Cardi B: 'I have felt prejudice' over racial disparities in the fashion industry
Cardi B: 'I have felt prejudice' over racial disparities in the fashion industryThe rapper, who has also designed and modeled, says black artists are discriminated against despite being powerful influences Cardi B performs 0n 14 September 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia. Photograph: Paul R Giunta/Invision/AP
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Fendi serves palette cleanser for label's optimistic outlook
Fendi serves palette cleanser for label's optimistic outlookCreative director, Kim Jones, oversees energetic Milan catwalk and says people are desperate to dress up The spending power of the Fendi woman can be seen in the collection, which focuses on opulent minimalism. Photograph: Fendi/Reuters
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Feed your moths and hide your trousers: the expert guide to making clothes last forever
Feed your moths and hide your trousers: the expert guide to making clothes last foreverOrsola de Castro is a fashion designer who became a re-use revolutionary. Now she has written a book to help people care for their clothes – and the planet ‘It is not just aesthetic, it is also profoundly moral’ ... Orsola De Castro. Photograph: Tamzin Haughton
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Digital fashion designers sought for UK’s first degree in virtual couture
Digital fashion designers sought for UK’s first degree in virtual coutureEnvironmental concerns and tech boom have conjured ‘perfect storm’ for master’s course in fashion and gaming, says professor The digital fashion MA course will begin in September at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham. Photograph: UCA
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Showing a flair for flares down the ages
Showing a flair for flares down the agesValuing GPs | Flares | Zoom calls | Oxymorons | House of Lords Harry Styles at Madison Square Garden, New York City, in 2018. One reader is delighted that the fashion for flares has finally caught up with him. Photograph: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for HS
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'Unusual but awesome': She makes sustainable footwear using tyres
In October 2018, she came up with an idea of footwear made up of up-cycled tyres, which gave rise to NEMITAL - a brand that makes handcrafted footwear from upcycled tyres.
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Burberry's Riccardo Tisci taps into the fluid generation
Burberry's Riccardo Tisci taps into the fluid generation . Collection inspired by the ‘great outdoors’ featured silk skirts and women but was entirely menswear
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Harper's Bazaar Megan Thee Stallion cover sparks representation debate
Harper's Bazaar Megan Thee Stallion cover sparks representation debateCriticisms of photo shoot for rapper echo previous fashion controversies about photographing black women Megan Thee Stallion told Harper’s Bazaar in an accompanying interview: ‘I’m realising that I don’t have to be in full glam every time you see me.’ Photograph: Rich Fury/Getty Images
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'A cavalcade of good bad taste': men leading the revival of flares
'A cavalcade of good bad taste': men leading the revival of flaresHarry Styles and Lakeith Stanfield are among those helping the maligned 1970s fashion staple into the mainstream Harry Styles at Madison Square Garden, New York City in 2018. Photograph: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for HS
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God bless the style: how Billie Holiday made glamour revolutionary
God bless the style: how Billie Holiday made glamour revolutionary. With Lee Daniels’ film The United States Vs Billie Holiday out this week, the jazz star’s signatures – gowns, gloves and gardenias – are being reassessed. Could they be seen as a radical act?
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The best protective day creams
The best protective day creams. Fenty Skin is so good that I deduct points only for the inclusion of fragrance, which doesn’t bother me but can irritate some
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London fashion week shows sketch out the new normal
London fashion week shows sketch out the new normal. Designers embrace digital presentations and hope collections resonate with shoppers looking to post-Covid freedoms
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Luxury brand Hermès reports 'remarkable' rise in sales in Asia
Luxury brand Hermès reports 'remarkable' rise in sales in Asia. French fashion house pays staff €1,250 bonus after strong end to 2020 despite Covid restrictions
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From platforms to puffas: this week's fashion trends
From platforms to puffas: this week's fashion trends. What’s hot and what’s not in fashion this week
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Kamala Harris's stepdaughter makes catwalk debut at New York fashion week
Kamala Harris's stepdaughter makes catwalk debut at New York fashion week. Ella Emhoff walks the runway during a socially distanced Proenza Schouler show after signing with IMG Models
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Héctor Bellerín joins football's team of new fashion influencers
Héctor Bellerín joins football's team of new fashion influencers. His socially conscious H&M range highlights how players’ fashion clout has grown during pandemic
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Monika Tilley obituary
Monika Tilley obituaryAmerican swimsuit and sportswear designer known for using innovative textiles to improve her creations A one-piece bathing suit, cut high on the hips, by Monika Tilley for Elon, photographed for Vogue, 1976. Photograph: Albert Watson/Conde Nast/Getty Images
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Down the tubes: should you brush your teeth with toothpaste tablets?
Down the tubes: should you brush your teeth with toothpaste tablets?Toothpaste tablets are marketed as a plastic-free, more portable oral care solution – James Shackell bites down in search of a better brush ‘Like chewing minty paracetamol’ – James Shackell’s experiment with dry-chewing a toothpaste tablet did not go well. Photograph: Henrik Dolle/Getty Images/EyeEm
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Pant-demic: why Bridget Jones's big knickers are on the rise in lockdown
Pant-demic: why Bridget Jones's big knickers are on the rise in lockdownSearches for ‘comfy’ and ‘high-waisted’ underwear are up as we spend Valentine’s Day at home Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage Before Bridget Jones, few had heard of control pants. Photograph: Miramax Films/KPA Press/eyevine
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Designer Harris Reed: 'How are we still outraged by me putting Harry Styles in a dress?'
Designer Harris Reed: 'How are we still outraged by me putting Harry Styles in a dress?'Ahead of London fashion week, the gender-fluid designer talks about glue guns, pop stars and courting controversy in Vogue Harry Styles wearing the Harris Reed suit/dress in the December 2020 issue of US Vogue. Photograph: Tyler Mitchell
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Perfume with a conscience
Perfume with a conscienceThe lavish, throwaway packaging that comes with luxury scent is on its way out Sali Hughes: ‘Perfume houses have an obligation to innovate and some are stepping up.’ Photograph: Alex Lake/The Guardian
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'As much as I love Depop, it triggers me': is body image a fashion disruptor's final frontier?
'As much as I love Depop, it triggers me': is body image a fashion disruptor's final frontier?. Virtual fleamarket Depop aims to be fashion’s ‘most diverse and progressive home’, but its users are still grappling with the industry’s oldest issue
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Victoria Beckham opts for comfort over glamour at fashion label
Victoria Beckham opts for comfort over glamour at fashion label. Designer ‘optimistic but realistic’ about industry’s post-Covid future as she discusses her latest collection

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