From turning your old shower mat into a handbag, to dying garments with beetroot, FRW’s Fashion Open Studio has a week of free sessions to show you how to repurpose clothes and household objects
A week after lockdown began to ease in the UK, Fashion Revolution Week (FRW) kicks off today with a reminder that “back-to-normal” isn’t always best – especially when it comes to the fashion industry.
“Covid was like a giant magnifying lens that showed us very clearly where we keep going wrong as people on this planet,” says Orsola de Castro, founder and global creative director of Fashion Revolution, pointing to exploitation and abuse which, she says, “are rife” in supply chains.
It has more dress codes than almost any other sport – and yet golfers are some of the worst dressed sportsmen on the planet. But now a group of high-profile amateurs are bringing streetwear to the 18th
When Hideki Matsuyama won the Masters earlier this month, he was handed a crisp green blazer with gold buttons to mark the achievement. Given that the sport’s highest honour is a rather jazzy bit of tailoring, it’s ironic that golf attire at a professional level is so achingly bland. And yet, it’s a different story at amateur level where a new wave of high-profile celebrity players and upstart brands are making golf sartorially interesting for the first time in decades – so much so that it’s starting to spill over from the fairway into real life. Norm- “FORE!” has arrived.
It has more dress codes than almost any other sport – and yet golfers are some of the worst dressed sportsmen on the planet. But now a group of high-profile amateurs are bringing streetwear to the 18th
When Hideki Matsuyama won the Masters earlier this month, he was handed a crisp green blazer with gold buttons to mark the achievement. Given that the sport’s highest honour is a rather jazzy bit of tailoring, it’s ironic that golf attire at a professional level is so achingly bland. And yet, it’s a different story at amateur level where a new wave of high-profile celebrity players and upstart brands are making golf sartorially interesting for the first time in decades – so much so that it’s starting to spill over from the fairway into real life. Norm- “FORE!” has arrived.
The New Jersey-raised singer faced Islamophobic judgments about her head covering and regrets fearing ‘what people said about me’
The singer SZA has spoken out about the Islamophobia she experienced as a child and how she stopped wearing a hijab covering after September 11 because she was “so scared” of the reaction it would provoke.
The singer, who grew up in a Muslim household in a predominantly white community in New Jersey, was speaking to the Muslim Girl website’s Snapchat series about her experiences.
Actor and musician Little Simz has a tendency to quiet self-reflection. But here she shows her more exuberant side as she prepares to release her fourth album
Protection is key, and today’s lighter, more fluid SPF formulas work beautifully under makeup
‘‘Oh I can’t be bothered,” say the people who, well, can’t be bothered to use SPF. I get it. The thought of adding another skincare step is exhausting. So I’m not going to preach – we all know the risk of skin cancer. However, I would like to throw in another reason to use sunscreen. Most skincare now has active ingredients that exfoliate, brighten, smooth, correct, etc. If you are using anything of the sort then your skin is more susceptible to damage from UV rays. This means, without sunscreen, the dullness, premature ageing, fine lines and pigmentation issues you think you are resolving are not really going anywhere. They just get deeper, more stubborn and more extensive. So protection is key. Today’s lighter, more fluid SPF formulas work beautifully under makeup (Equilibrium by Hourglass is excellent); don’t leave ghoulish residues (great news for anyone with darker skin), and have additional skincare benefits. Shiseido, for instance, protects from premature ageing; Ultra Violette is infused with Kakadu Plum, an incredible source of Vitamin C, and Thank You Farmer delivers moisture-boosting Hyaluronic Acid and mistletoe extract, a kiss of life that stimulates skin cell turnover. Hopefully you can be bothered with that.
1. Shiseido Expert Sun Protector Face & Body Lotion SPF 50+ £45, shiseido.co.uk 2. Lancaster Sun Sensitive Oil-Free Milky Face Fluid SPF 50 £22, lookfantastic.com 3. Thank You Farmer Sun Project Water Sun Cream £18, cultbeauty.co.uk 4. Black Girl Sunscreen SPF 30 £19.89, richskxn.com 5. Sun Bum Original SPF 30 Sunscreen Lotion £17.99, asos.com 6. Dr Dennis Gross All-Physical Lightweight Wrinkle Defense Broad Spectrum Sunscreen SPF 30 £46, spacenk.com 7. Kate Somerville Daily Deflector Mineral Sunscreen £42, katesomerville.co.uk 8. Ultra Violette Lean Screen, SPF 50 £34, spacenk.com 9. Hourglass Equilibrium Day Fluid £101, hourglasscosmetics.co.uk 10. Supergoop! Glowscreen SPF 30 £32, cultbeauty.co.uk
Supersized floral totes, feel-good prints from Kemi Telford, Clarks glue-free trainers and this summer’s coveted dress from Rejina Pyo at & Other stories
Don’t let the British weather ruin your day. Brighten the dullest alfresco date with an eye-catching printed poncho, bold coloured rain hat and graphic printed umbrella.
The checkerboard pattern, once synonymous with homespun domesticity, has been subverted. Now it’s everywhere, from frilled dresses to hair bows, and it’s an alfresco winner
Here comes the sun – and with it, dream sunscreens, old and new, for all skin types
One of my most popular recommendations, if your emails and messages are representative, is Bioré UV Aqua Rich Watery Essence SPF50. This feather-light sunscreen, ideal for oily and congested skins, is loved by many of you; but as it’s imported from Asia, it’s frequently out of stock.
You need go no further than Boots or Superdrug to find a replacement. La Roche-Posay’s new HyaluB5 Aqua Gel SPF30 (£34, 50ml, available from Boots, Superdrug, Look Fantastic, Feel Unique, Escentual and independent pharmacists) came to me via an unlabelled lab sample last year and I’ve been waiting impatiently to tell you how terrific it is. The transparent gel (great for anyone with a darker skin tone, as well as beardy men) plumps and hydrates skin within moments. All you grease-haters will love the silky finish, which provides enough moisture and slip for oily (even acne-prone), combination and balanced skins to proceed directly to makeup, skipping the day cream altogether. The SPF30 is adequate for extended periods outdoors; remember, the difference between 30 and 50 is pretty tiny. Low-maintenance and comfortable, it will be, for many, the dream sunscreen.
Here comes the sun – and with it, dream sunscreens, old and new, for all skin types
One of my most popular recommendations, if your emails and messages are representative, is Bioré UV Aqua Rich Watery Essence SPF50. This feather-light sunscreen, ideal for oily and congested skins, is loved by many of you; but as it’s imported from Asia, it’s frequently out of stock.
You need go no further than Boots or Superdrug to find a replacement. La Roche-Posay’s new HyaluB5 Aqua Gel SPF30 (£34, 50ml, available from Boots, Superdrug, Look Fantastic, Feel Unique, Escentual and independent pharmacists) came to me via an unlabelled lab sample last year and I’ve been waiting impatiently to tell you how terrific it is. The transparent gel (great for anyone with a darker skin tone, as well as beardy men) plumps and hydrates skin within moments. All you grease-haters will love the silky finish, which provides enough moisture and slip for oily (even acne-prone), combination and balanced skins to proceed directly to makeup, skipping the day cream altogether. The SPF30 is adequate for extended periods outdoors; remember, the difference between 30 and 50 is pretty tiny. Low-maintenance and comfortable, it will be, for many, the dream sunscreen.
The trainer manufacturer soon sued, but has that just increased the appeal of MSCHF’s ‘drops’?
By now, you may have heard of the Satan shoes.
In March, a “company” called MSCHF injected a drop of its employees’ blood into the soles of 666 pairs of red-and-black Nike Air Max trainers. It added a pentagram-shaped charm to the laces, the words “Luke 10:18” – a reference to the Bible passage, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven” – along the side, and named them after the devil. The trainers went on sale for more than $1,000 (£740) each; 665 sold in under a minute.
Sneakers, which are Sotheby’s most expensive shoe listing ever, were designed by West and Nike’s Mark Smith in 2007
Kanye West’s Air Yeezy sneakers are being auctioned for $1m, making them Sotheby’s most expensive shoe listing ever. They are expected to break the record set by a pair of Nike Air Jordan 1s worn by Michael Jordan, which sold for $615,000 last year.
Television has been my surrogate social life for the past year, so all my style icons have been sourced via the small screen. Emily In Paris’s boss Sylvie gave excellent haughty French chic, at a time when I was watching fashion week on my laptop and pining for days ogling French Vogue editors across the catwalk. And Moira Rose from Schitt’s Creek is to the incoming roaring 20s what Daisy Buchanan was to the last time around, mark my words.
But the style icon I will be channelling in the low-key re-entry phase of real-world dressing is a woman who isn’t trying to dress up at all. In fact, I am sure she would hate being written about like this. I am trying to think of the bone-dry killer putdown Fran Lebowitz would fire back if I said to her face that, after watching her Netflix show Pretend It’s A City, I wanted to dress more like her. But obviously I can’t, which is why she’s Fran Lebowitz and I’m not.
As we prepare to peel off our jogging bottoms and tentatively reintroduce our lower halves to the world, retailers are betting on the big bright dress as the look of the socially distanced summer.
“Breezeable”, “voluminous” and “forgiving” are some of the terms designers are using for the loose, midi-length style, which is omnipresent in current collections.
Annual gift guide includes luxury items that would seem beyond the means of most struggling in a pandemic-hit economy
Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop Mother’s Day gift guide for this year includes a vibrator necklace and a $600 bidet among other luxury items that would seem far beyond the means of most people still struggling in a pandemic-hit economy.
The annual gift guide from Paltrow’s wellness and lifestyle brand is, according to a blurb on the website, for “a calendar day dedicated to showering some of the most deserving among us with love”.
Celebration of the fashion house’s 100th anniversary offers a postmodern take on branding
From high street to catwalk, collaboration is a mainstay of fashion now. But Gucci’s show on Thursday afternoon – one that celebrated the brand’s 100th anniversary – stepped the idea up a gear.
The creative director Alessandro Michele worked with the designs of one of his biggest rivals for influence – Balenciaga’s Demna Gvasalia. The resulting items featured the Balenciaga logo and Gucci monogram and looked like very expensive bootlegs. They had exactly the kind of postmodern take on branding that gets a lot of play in the Instagram era.
Black hoodie from streetwear label Overpriced is part of growing NFT one-of-a-kind asset trend
A virtual hoodie has sold for £19,000, bought as a non-fungible token (NFT).
The black hoodie from the streetwear fashion label Overpriced, emblazoned with an expletive-laden logo in neon green graffiti font, sold on the digital art marketplace Blockparty.co to an anonymous bidder who, through scanning a code, can now “wear” the garment in virtual settings online.
