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It’s our job as designers to make women smile; to bring them the chocolate without the calories.

Darling of the fashion industry, Alber Elbaz celebrates 10 years at Lanvin

By Georgie Haigh
Posted 04.10.12
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FIT FOR PURPOSE: THE HUNT FOR THE PERFECT BRA

Suffering from unsightly lines, bad posture or back ache? Chances are you’re wearing the wrong bra size. Our womenswear writer Emily went for a fitting at Rigby & Peller to investigate.

By Emily Rampton
Posted 26.09.12
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The fashionable woman wears clothes, the clothes don’t wear her

Marc Newson

By Cocosa
Posted 16.07.12
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Fashion changes, but style endures

- Coco Chanel

By Cocosa
Posted 10.07.12
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The MAN show was amazing. Shaun Samson was my favourite out of the three.

Lady Gaga’s stylist, Anna Trevelyan at London Collections: Men

By Cocosa
Posted 16.06.12
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A typical jumble of ideas inspired by vintage kimono prints, early 60s West Coast surf culture and late 80s casuals.

YMC’s Fraser Moss on the influences of the brand’s SS13 menswear collection

By Cocosa
Posted 15.06.12
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One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.

Karl Lagerfeld

By Emily Rampton
Posted 13.06.12
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A man should look as if he had bought his clothes with intelligence, put them on with care, and then forgotten all about them.

Hardy Amies

By Cocosa
Posted 12.06.12
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Style to me is about an attitude to dressing and a certain confidence in knowing what really suits you.

Matthew Williamson

By Poppy Skinner
Posted 21.05.12
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Elegance is the only beauty that never fades

- Audrey Hepburn

By Cocosa
Posted 14.05.12
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Fashion is all about happiness. It’s fun. It’s important. But it’s not medicine.

- Donatella Versace

By Poppy Skinner
Posted 09.05.12
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The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right way

Zac Posen

By Poppy Skinner
Posted 04.05.12
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What we’re talking about is being modern and making things easier for people

Calvin Klein

By Poppy Skinner
Posted 24.04.12
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The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress.

- Hubert de Givenchy

By Emily Rampton
Posted 11.04.12
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Mr Christian Dior has always been for me the most inspiring couturier. Around the globe, the name Dior symbolises the ultimate in elegance and refinement. I am truly humbled and honoured to become artistic director of the most celebrated French house in the world

- Raf Simons opens up on his new role at Dior

By Poppy Skinner
Posted 10.04.12
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A woman’s dress should be a like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view

- Sophia Loren

By Cocosa
Posted 29.03.12
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Black is the new black for AW12

- Chris Gilbert: AW12 trend presentation

By Cocosa
Posted 27.03.12
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The woman is the most perfect doll that I have dressed with delight and admiration

- Karl Lagerfeld

By Cocosa
Posted 19.03.12
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Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal

- Diana Vreeland

By Poppy Skinner
Posted 15.03.12
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The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources

- Albert Einstein

By Cocosa
Posted 07.03.12
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LFW was colourful, modern and chic-as-hell!

- ‘What I saw today’ blogger, Richard Haines

By Cocosa
Posted 28.02.12
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The standout collections at LFW’s menswear day were those that involved pattern and colour, such as Matthew Miller and Agi & Sam.

- Chic Geek blogger, Marcus Jaye

By Cocosa
Posted 23.02.12
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LFW was “incredibly grown-up, with polished, sexy and glamorous clothes”

- Anna Wintour

By Cocosa
Posted 22.02.12
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Opulence will be a big trend for autumn/winter 2012.

- Anna Dello Russo

By Cocosa
Posted 20.02.12
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For the collection I embraced British heritage whole-heartedly. I imagined grand dinner dresses that would sweep down the castle steps.

- Caroline Charles commenting on her AW12 collection

By Emily Rampton
Posted 17.02.12
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The success of Missoni is very much linked to the story of the family. It’s a mix of passion for fashion and a talent for pattern that makes Missoni so special.

- Angela Missoni

By Cocosa
Posted 13.02.12
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Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world…

- Marilyn Monroe

By Cocosa
Posted 13.02.12
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If the family wasn’t so beautiful, maybe Missoni wouldn’t have been so successful

- Angela Missoni

By Cocosa
Posted 13.02.12
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For SS12, I wanted to modernise the grungy, laid-back women in Joseph Szabo’s photographs

- Michael Van Der Ham

By Cocosa
Posted 13.02.12
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Fashions fade, style is eternal

- Yves Saint Laurent

By Cocosa
Posted 10.02.12
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