Lauren Cochrane is a senior Guardian fashion writer
April 2025
Balenciaga and orthopaedic brand Scholl team up for ‘Frankenshoe’ hybrid
‘Everyone can have a bit of White Lotus in their wardrobe’: how fashion fell in love with the hit show
March 2025
Calling all fashion models … now AI is coming for you
As fashion brands create AI ‘twins’ with models’ permission, some believe this is just another form of exploitation
Grab your logo sweatshirt – Gap is making a surprise fashion comeback
Dresses from 90s brand grace red carpet after rough patch in which brand closed stores and broke tie with Kanye West
From Big Red Boots to a Microscopic Handbag, MSCHF’s viral designs – in pictures
A new book, Made By MSCHF, collects the items created by the disruptive New York fashion collective since they began in 2016 – and tells the story behind them, and their memes
February 2025
‘A layer of defiance’: Simone Rocha on how her ultra-feminine styles won over women - and men
The designer, whose show was a highlight of London fashion week, talks bows, Paul Mescal and how dressing like a trad wife isn’t always about conforming
‘It was shocking to me’: Black female designers still underrepresented at London fashion week
In an age where UK Black female designers have dressed Rihanna and Kendrick Lamar, why are they still facing a diversity gap?
The Filter
From the new Sambas to the best shoes for a soggy run – 64 trainers to tick every box
Baftas 2025: the red carpet, the ceremony, the winners – as it happened
Stars sport black at goth-tinged Baftas in London
January 2025
Kim Jones steps down from Christian Dior menswear after seven years
Designers ‘afraid’ of getting on Trump’s wrong side … and still put Melania in that hat
Dior’s British designer Kim Jones awarded knighthood in Paris
Christie’s auction showcases style of centenarian fashion muse Iris Apfel
December 2024
‘It’s shorthand for what we expect women to look like’: how ‘not-too-done’ hair took over screens in 2024
From the sisters in Nobody Wants to Ashley Jensen’s detective in Shetland, one hairstyle dominated ambient TV this year
Parkas, bucket hats and union jacks: how the Oasis reunion tour is fuelling a comeback for the Britpop look
With Noel and Liam set to return, the style they popularised in the 1990s is back in the spotlight – but what will the Insta-fashion-conscious Gen Z make of it all?
More than 200 fashion models urge New York governor to sign bill of rights
Alessandra Ambrosio, Christy Turlington and others ask Kathy Hochul to sign Fashion Workers Act in open letter
November 2024
London fashion week first of ‘big four’ to ban exotic animal skins
Designers must commit to ditching skins of animals such as crocodiles and snakes from 2025
Bows are so millennial. These days, gen Z are rediscovering the neck tie
The ties have it: bows are in decline, replaced by an accessory once the preserve of power-dressers that’s being updated by a more fluid generation
A Keith Haring carousel, a Basquiat ferris wheel: long-lost pop art carnival gets new life in New York
In 1987, the great and good of the art scene designed rides for an avant garde ‘theme park’ in Hamburg. Decades later, Luna Luna has been lovingly resurrected
