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  • Monday, 4 April, 2022
    The Art of FashionArt of Fashion: the British issue
    Still life: what Mondrian tells us about style

    Yves Saint Laurent’s outfits of 1965 inspired by the Dutch modernist’s paintings were a futuristic sensation. The artist himself though was more interested in the present

  • Tuesday, 21 December, 2021
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    As Jedi knights and bullfighters will attest, when it comes to men’s outerwear, nothing matches the garment for pure theatre

  • Wednesday, 1 December, 2021
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    Louis Vuitton show: a tribute to the many layers of Virgil Abloh

    The label remixed its late artistic director’s recent collection, highlighting his role as a creative expander and enabler

  • Monday, 17 May, 2021
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    From Andy Warhol to Cindy Sherman, artists have long brought freedom to their wardrobes

  • Thursday, 8 April, 2021
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    The Scottish-born designer on how he rediscovered his artistic appreciation in lockdown and how it inspired his new collection

  • Friday, 22 February, 2019
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    For the American creative, art is more than something you look at in a gallery. And in her latest show, you become part of the work

  • Tuesday, 16 October, 2018
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    It’s the subject of the Met’s new blockbuster show. But what does camp mean in 2018?

  • Friday, 29 June, 2018
    Menswear Spring 2019 shows
    Buy a bum bag — and other lessons from the SS19 menswear shows

    Suits fought back against sneakers, saturated colour ruled, and shorts were still quite short. Charlie Porter sums up the season

  • Thursday, 28 June, 2018
    Life & Arts
    Dior’s new direction

    The menswear designer Kim Jones and chief executive Pietro Beccari on their plans to streamline and unify the LVMH-owned brand

  • Sunday, 24 June, 2018
    Menswear Spring 2019 shows
    Hermès, Thom Browne SS19 men’s review: Paris gets idealistic

    Assured luxury from one of Paris’s most storied houses, while Thom Browne shows nonsense with a message

  • Friday, 22 June, 2018
    Menswear Spring 2019 shows
    Rick Owens, Loewe SS19 men’s review: fashion’s Burning Man

    What does it take to survive a fashion show? Rick Owens brings a tent. Jonathan Anderson dresses his brother

  • Friday, 22 June, 2018
    Menswear Spring 2019 shows
    Menswear’s acid trip: rave culture hits the catwalk

    After a long period of sobriety, designers are embracing hedonism — and bucket hats, again

  • Thursday, 21 June, 2018
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    Louis Vuitton men’s SS19: Virgil Abloh’s glorious debut

    A stellar collection heralds a new era for menswear at Louis Vuitton

  • Thursday, 21 June, 2018
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    Raf Simons SS19 review: the new New Wave

    Does the Belgian designer’s duchess satin jackets mean return of tailoring for men?

  • Thursday, 21 June, 2018
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    Off-White, Acne Studios, Valentino SS19 men’s review: Paris starts to heat up

    Virgil Abloh is liberated at Off-White via Bart Simpson and James Dean

  • Wednesday, 20 June, 2018
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    Virgil Abloh — ‘the world is looking for the second coming’

    As he makes his Louis Vuitton menswear debut, the 38-year-old designer shares his thoughts on hype, history — and hoodies

  • Sunday, 17 June, 2018
    Menswear Spring 2019 shows
    Prada SS19 menswear: simple yet so good

    Prada drops the conceptualism, but what’s the theory behind the shortest shorts in fashion to date?

  • Sunday, 17 June, 2018
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    Versace, Ermenegildo Zegna review SS19: Blockbusters of Milan menswear

    What makes a blockbuster show? For Versace, supermodels. Zegna: architecture

  • Friday, 15 June, 2018
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    Is the traditional suit on the endangered list?

    At the London Collections Men, the home of tailoring, the suit had gone Awol. Unless it was a tracksuit

  • Monday, 11 June, 2018
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    Who needs a catwalk at the London Collections Men’s SS19? Martine Rose takes to the street

    SS19 review of Martine Rose, plus A-Cold-Wall, Art School, Rottingdean Bazaar, Stefan Cooke and Bianca Saunders

  • Wednesday, 18 April, 2018
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    Planning to launch a white hot fashion label? We asked the experts to tell us how it’s done

  • Friday, 30 March, 2018
    Life & Arts
    Have you the courage to wear half-half clothes?

    Fused garments have become de rigueur on the catwalk. Do they work in real life?

  • Friday, 9 March, 2018
    FT Best ofBest of FT style 2018
    Faux v fur — fashion’s hairiest debate

    More and more brands are rejecting real fur, but is the alternative any more ethical?

  • Friday, 26 January, 2018
    Life & Arts
    Paris AW18: Menswear loses its sense of direction

    While there were a few highlights, the men’s collections struggled to respond to a new political era

  • Sunday, 21 January, 2018
    Life & Arts
    Paris menswear ends with a day of questions

    AW18 Paris men’s show report of Lanvin, Paul Smith, Dunhill and SSS World Corp

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