8 HRS AGO - How do you adapt to working from home, keep fit, maintain a social life – and maybe even cut your hair?Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSocial media is awash with professional colourists pleading with absent clients not to reach for the box dye while they’re closed for business. This is partly because, like every service profession, hairdressing will take a financial beating during this crisis. Continue reading... Collapse

18 HRS AGO - We’re desperate for escapism and fantasy right now – unfortunately, Amazon’s brutish, commercially driven reality show provides neither“You are free to go on to the streets of Paris as you please,” says Tim Gunn, the former Project Runway host who joins his fellow defector Heidi Klum to front the new fashion competition Making the Cut. Ah. Well. About that …Making the Cut is up against it on a number of fronts, not just because it is a reality show with obscenely deep pockets that is dedicated to luxury and consumption and has arrived in the middle of a global firestorm that makes all of that look less palatable than it might have four months ago. There is also the matter of the competition to the competition. Netflix’s Next in Fashion, which arrived earlier this year, had a more suitable warm-and-winning approach to its trade, and it makes this look brutish by comparison. Continue reading... Collapse

1 DAY AGO - What’s hot and what’s not in fashion this weekFrancesca Bellettini Sure, the chief exec has increased Saint Laurent earnings. She’s also serious hairspo for the curl-inclined. Continue reading... Collapse

1 DAY AGO - Over four decades the late German fashion photographer collaborated with many of the biggest names in the industry, from Kate Moss to Naomi Campbell Continue reading... Collapse

2 DAYS AGO - Need to exert a little control in these chaotic times? Streamlining your clothes is the ideal project for when you are staying in – and will set you up for working from homeIn times of crisis, we turn to the wisdom and comfort to be found in the classics. I refer, of course, to Clueless, the 1995 film starring Alicia Silverstone as Cher Horowitz. “Cher’s main thrill in life is a makeover,” her best friend observes. “It gives her a sense of control in a world full of chaos.”We could all do with that right now. In the space of days, the fabric of our daily lives has changed out of all recognition. We are in our homes, yet in completely unfamiliar territory. It helps a little bit, I think, to take control of that home environment in a positive way. A wardrobe sort-out is a pitch-perfect distraction, at some point over the next three weeks. It is just absorbing enough to keep your mind from spinning out on the centrifugal forces of existential angst, without being taxing on your already Collapse

3 DAYS AGO - From hospitals to hand sanitiser, a number of big names from continental fashion capitals are turning their efforts towards the fight against the coronavirus. Will the British industry follow suit?Prada is the latest big-name fashion brand to turn its production lines, usually focused on elegant blazers and blouses, to meet needs arising from the coronavirus crisis. Yesterday it said it would produce 110,000 masks by 6 April, while Gucci has said it will make more than 1m and Yves Saint Laurent and Balenciaga – both of which, like Gucci, are owned by Kering – will also begin manufacturing them.High-street brands are similarly shifting their focus. Last week, Spanish-owned Zara pledged to produce surgical masks, saying it had already donated 10,000 masks and a further 300,000 were due to be sent by the end of this week. Over the weekend, H&M Group said it would be rearranging its supply chain to produce protective equipment for hospitals and healthcare workers. Continue reading... Collapse

4 DAYS AGO - The online fashion retailer has increased its discount for the NHS and healthcare workers as a thank you Collapse

4 DAYS AGO - If you work for the NHS right now, so big companies want to say thanks and Chi Chi London is just the latest - offering £20 credit until the end of May. Collapse

4 DAYS AGO - Why stockpile food when you can stockpile clothes and have a new wardrobe when you can enter the world in all its glory once again. Collapse