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  • WHEN MODS GROW UP

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    How does one age within a style tribe? In her latest Dress Sense column, Linda Grant writes that the mods and punks still look good, but pity the poor hippies ...  read more »


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  • THE PAIN OF PLAIN

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    Why so frumpy, asks Linda Grant. She launches an attack on beige sacks and other garments that are not out of date but never fashionable in the first place ...  read more »


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    • summer 2009
  • IN THE BAG

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    A museum in Amsterdam houses a collection of remarkable handbags. Art.view spies a few choice specimens ...  read more »


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  • RECLAIMING THE UNION JACK

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    British designers from Alexander McQueen to Emma Bridgewater are appropriating the flag that festooned Nelson’s catafalque. Clearly the Union Jack is not the sacred cow it once was, writes Matthew Sweet ...  read more »


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  • SAVILE ROGUES: LONDON'S RAKISH TAILORS

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    Stuffy? Snobbish? Restrictive? No, sir—bespoke has changed. Michael Bywater meets five tailors who have loosened up ...  read more »


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    • summer 2009
  • THE MIRTH OF THE COOL: ALBER ELBAZ

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    Alber Elbaz of Lanvin is a technical virtuoso on a mission to make people smile. Sarah Mower profiles a designer who deals in delight ...  read more »


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    • spring 2009
  • DRESS SENSE: THE LIGHT FANTASTIC

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    "A cocktail ring is the antithesis of a wedding ring," writes Linda Grant, who found hers in France for a paltry €8. "It announces no status other than the desire to have fun" ...  read more »


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  • DRESS SENSE: PETALS

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    Victoire de Castellane, the creative director of Dior Fine Jewellery, tells Isabel Lloyd about her obsession with flowers both natural and unnatural  ...  read more »


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    • Winter 2008
  • THE SWEATER HAS ITS DAY IN THE SUN

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    Given winter's incessant chill, now is the time to enjoy the resurgence of sweater-wear. Bronwyn Cosgrave highlights the season's best ...  read more »


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  • THE REMARKABLE MR JONES

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    "Hats are a passport to another world," declares Stephen Jones, the greatest milliner of his generation. Catherine St Germans considers his show of fanciful headgear at the V&A ...  read more »


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