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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 »

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 She launches an attack on beige sacks and other garments that are not out of date but never fashionable in the first place ...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 »

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

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 »

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

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 »

"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 »

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

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 »

"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 »