15th September 2011
Loving and Loathing: 15/09/11
What we’re loving and loathing in fashion this week.
Categories: Fashion & Beauty
Loving
American Apparel knit pencil skirts (£42, American Apparel)
New for A/W, our favourite sweat shop free clothing destination has produced these fabulously flattering knitted pencil skirts in an array of hues. Perfect with a pair of opaque tights and ankle boots, or bare legs and heels for day to night transitioning.
Loathing
Ready attached braces
A recent traipse around Topman and H&M revealed a worrying plethora of trousers with ready affixed braces, usually in an offensively bright colour. Unless you are Chuck Bass and pull off the dapper/dandy look with aplomb, I beg you to leave these sad creations to be resigned to the sale rail, where they belong.
Claudia Canavan
Former fashion editor (2011-2012).
More Coverage
Has Vinted lost its vintage?
The second-hand marketplace is now lots of people’s first choice for clothing, from your housemates to your mum. But over time, the platform has turned into a sea of re-sold fast fashion. Heidi Taylor asks a 19-year-old and a 71-year-old if that’s such a bad thing.
Call it what it is: Jhumkas or vintage accessories?
The fashion industry’s ongoing erasure of Indian craftsmanship, as seen through the popularisation of the South Asian Jewellery staple: Jhumkas
Threads of Osmosis: bridging the gap between fashion and politics
Following Labrum’s A/W’26 Threads of Osmosis collection at London Fashion Week, we explore how fashion is being used as a medium for politics
Identity and fast fashion: A story of overconsumption
Social media is driving overconsumption, selling us an ideal aesthetic – but our identity doesn’t just come from fashion