1 HR AGO - Forget his or hers. Scent beyond gender - an idea started with CK One in the 90s - is shaking up the perfume industry• Read more from the spring/summer 2020 edition of The Fashion, our biannual style supplementChristian Dior famously said, “A woman’s perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.” But in 2020, the very idea of “a woman’s perfume” is a concept that looks to be on its way out.Not that you’d know it from the fragrance departments of mainstream stores. There, the subliminal, traditional messages around scent still reign supreme. A woman’s should be pretty and floral, with curved rather than angular bottles and “feminine” names – Belle, Daisy, Sweetheart. Conversely, fragrances for men are “harder”, with darker colours, leathery, smoky ingredients and names such as Sauvage and Le Male, conjuring a Bear Grylls type who rescues women from burning buildings and singledom. Continue reading... Collapse

13 HRS AGO - Lizzo has appeared on the Brit Awards red carpet wearing a custom chocolate wrapper dress. The dress, which appears to mimic the look of American chocolate brand Hershey's, was designed by Jeremy Collapse

14 HRS AGO - Tonight, the Brit Awards are taking place at the O2 in London. The event will see stars including Ariana Grande, Lizzo, Harry Styles and Stormzy grace the red carpet as they celebrate the best talent Collapse

15 HRS AGO - We live in rented homes, go on holiday to rented properties, drive rented cars and some people even borrow other people’s pets, but for most of us the idea of renting our wardrobes still seems a step Collapse

17 HRS AGO - The designer and founder on starting out in London in 1964 and being inspired by Marlene Dietrich and Audrey HepburnThis picture was taken for the press around the time we lost Biba [the shop, on Kensington High Street in London, closed in 1975]. I’m wearing a pair of black satin pyjamas with off-white piping – I’d been inspired by Marlene Dietrich, who was pictured wearing something similar. We did pyjamas in our first Biba catalogue, too – it’s a look that’s been going for ever. In Miami, where I now live, all the department stores are still full of it.This look was very Biba: satin was our big thing. People would often wear our negligees and nighties out in the evenings. It’s the sort of thing I would have worn to a party or dinner, but not to work – it’s too floppy. I’m also wearing a collection of vintage jewellery. In those days, the vintage stuff, oh my God. It was amazing. Now it’s so expensive and all the good stuff is gone. Continue reading... Collapse

19 HRS AGO - Former Love Island contestant Molly-Mae Hague has announced that 100 per cent of the profits from her latest Pretty Little Thing clothing range are to be donated to mental health charity Mind Collapse

1 DAY AGO - The Guardian’s fashion editor heads to the stables to find out whether the tranquility of horses can help slow her busy lifeOne cold, bright morning in January, I stood in a field in Gloucestershire with my eyes closed and imagined I had four legs. Just metres away was a herd of eight horses. Before meeting them, advised therapist Lisanne Peters, it was wise to meditate. First, she told me to focus on sensations – the smell of hay; the birdsong. Then she instructed me to imagine myself, centaur-like, “with another back and another set of legs behind you. Feel how sturdy, how grounded, you are.” Continue reading... Collapse

1 DAY AGO - Fashion house weathers the economic storm as coronavirus outbreak dents luxury demand“London is the place where I learned to be myself and a city where I gained the confidence to be the man that I am today,” said Riccardo Tisci, the chief creative officer of Burberry, before his London fashion week show on Monday. “Now I want to share British style with the world and use this incredible heritage to build and humanise the house.”Burberry, British luxury fashion’s marquee name, could use a boost in morale. London is Burberry’s home, but its commercial heartbeat is now in Asia. With Chinese customers accounting for 40% of Burberry revenues, the brand is one of those that has been hit hardest by the economic impact of coronavirus. Continue reading... Collapse

1 DAY AGO - No, no. We don’t talk politics,” Tommy Hilfiger says, shaking his head at me. Hilfiger is no rookie – he learns from his mistakes. In 2016, shortly after the election of Donald Trump, designers lined Collapse