Style

When fashion loses its meaning, it’s time for style

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Fashion has entered a state of pure postmodernism where anything goes and nothing means anything anymore, argues Eugene Rabkin. In...

Fashion week serves up Dad dressing – and Gucci crazy

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Quite ordinary men are waking up across the globe to discover that they are suddenly, shockingly in fashion... while others...

The pearl gleams, out of Granny’s closet

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There's far more to pearl jewellery than the delicate, Jackie O.–style necklaces and preppy stud earrings that reign among the...

Kinfolk is here, but is it staying?

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Skewering the kinfolk trend is a lot of fun, as Morwenna Ferrier of The Guardian indicates with her Signs you...

Statement pieces: The alluring designs of Angela Caputi

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A couple of years ago, the Publisher of 47 Plus had never heard of Angela Caputi. Then, a visit to...

Dior at new NGV exhibition in Melbourne – pas mal for 70!

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Svetlana Lloyd, at Melbourne's NGV, looks upset as she recounts how she donated her Dior dresses to the Brooklyn Museum, only...

Electrified: Volkswagen brings back the Kombi

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The VW Microbus, a beloved symbol of the 1960s, is getting a revamp as a spacious, all-electric vehicle called the...

A short history of an evolution: How humans perceive and define colour

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WGSN’s colour director Jane Monnington Boddy tells the fascinating history of how humans have attempted to communicate and define colour,...