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It’s a slam dunk for Tommy Hilfiger as stars turn out for Plaza homecoming
Looks from the Tommy Hilfiger show at the Plaza in New York. Composite: Shutterstock Tommy Hilfiger’s front row was a slam dunk. The Knicks are the kings of New York right now, so scoring Josh Hart, Karl-Anthony Towns and Miles McBride, three of the team’s stars, for the guest list of his New York catwalk show was a victory.
It’s a slam dunk for Tommy Hilfiger as stars turn out for Plaza homecoming Original
Tommy Hilfiger's front row was a slam dunk. The Knicks are the kings of New York right now, so scoring Josh Hart, Karl-Anthony Towns and Miles McBride, three of the team's stars, for the guest list of his New York catwalk show was a victory. Travis Kelce, who is co-designing another upcoming collection with Hilfiger and had been rumoured to attend this event with his new bride, was a no show, but you can't win them all. Tommy Hilfiger is all about sport.
Ralph Lauren proves the American dream still sells at New York fashion week
The opening show of fashion’s month of catwalks was not on the official schedule, but Viola Davis and Cynthia Erivo were snuggled on to celebrity-packed benches in a cathedral-sized marble hall where tapestry-hung walls and a gilded coffered ceiling framed a view over lower Manhattan. Ralph Lauren, 86, took his bow at the end of this women’s wear show casually dressed in a varsity jacket spelling out New York.
Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: this sweltering summer, I finally stopped giving a tuck
This was the summer of the Great Untuck. The long hot summer of 2026 finally taught me to do what fashion has been nagging me about for years, which is to quit tucking in my shirts and T-shirts. To stop assuming that the top half of an outfit must be neatly cinched by the waistband of the skirt or trousers. It wasn't a style epiphany, to be fair. It was just too hot to do anything else. An extended run of hot weather at home changes how you dress.
Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: this sweltering summer, I finally stopped giving a tuck
This was the summer of the Great Untuck. The long hot summer of 2026 finally taught me to do what fashion has been nagging me about for years, which is to quit tucking in my shirts and T-shirts. To stop assuming that the top half of an outfit must be neatly cinched by the waistband of the skirt or trousers. It wasn’t a style epiphany, to be fair. It was just too hot to do anything else. An extended run of hot weather at home changes how you dress.
Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: this sweltering summer, I finally stopped giving a tuck
This was the summer of the Great Untuck. The long hot summer of 2026 finally taught me to do what fashion has been nagging me about for years, which is to quit tucking in my shirts and T-shirts. To stop assuming that the top half of an outfit must be neatly cinched by the waistband of the skirt or trousers. It wasn't a style epiphany, to be fair. It was just too hot to do anything else. An extended run of hot weather at home changes how you dress.
Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: swot up with these lessons in back-to-school dressing Original
I used to love back-to-school shopping when my children were little. The miniature highlighter pens, the name labels, those pop-out pencil cases from Smiggle, even the intergenerational wrangling over when the price of a water bottle becomes unreasonable. I love the ceremony of new beginnings. The curtain-raising drama of it all. Luckily for me, you don't have to grow out of back-to-school shopping even though your children do, because in fashion September is considered the start of the new year.
Jess Cartner-Morley's September style essentials: slipper-soft shoes, miracle hair mist and a worth-the-wait cardigan
Nobody has handed me a timetable in decades, but I still love that new-term energy, and this edit leans right into it. A blazer that is properly tailored, rather than assembled from buttons and hope. Closed-toe shoes to ensure a proper soft landing after months of sandals. A T-shirt from a brand I was fully prepared to be sniffy about, until it made me eat my words. And a packing solution, because the only sane way to deal with the end of summer is to plan a holiday, obviously.
Reader Q&A: Our fashion editor Jess Cartner-Morley answers your questions – live
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Reader Q&A: Our fashion editor Jess Cartner-Morley answers your questions – live
LIVE – Updated at 15:48 Jess Cartner-Morley has been the Guardian's fashion editor since 2000. She is online now answering your questions from tips for the well-dressed man to trouser fastenings. Is there such a thing as ‘mutton-dressed-as lamb'? FlusteredCustard asks: When I was younger (44 now) I thought older women who stuck to fashion formulas from when they were young looked vaguely silly and thought staying up-to-date, no matter your age, was the key to style.
Reader Q&A: ask our fashion editor Jess Cartner-Morley your questions now
Jess Cartner-Morley, associate editor (fashion) for the Guardian Illustration: Guardian Design Welcome to the Conversation What’s changed in the industry since 2000, have there been any catwalk disasters, and can you really consume fashion ethically? As Jess gears up for another round of fashion weeks beginning in New York next month, ask her anything about her years covering fashion. Jess will be here at 3pm BST/10am ET.
The weekend is 100 years old – but have 'skiveday Fridays' and hybrid working ruined it for everyone?
For 11 years, from 1929 to 1940, the Soviet Union did not have weekends. Instead, to increase productivity citizens were allocated a day off in every seven at random. With 80% of the population at work on any given day, factories never had to power down.
Jess Cartner-Morley’s August style essentials: lace trims, snazzy knits and one truly beautiful bag
August: do you buy for the holiday you’ll be melting through this month, or the one you’ll be pretending to enjoy in a jumper come October? Answers on a postcard, please! The key to staying (relatively) sane in silly season is to embrace the contradictions. Read on for the holiday-coded necklace I’ve fallen in love with and the elegant leather handbag I’m dreaming of when I hang up my straw basket.
Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: the secret to summer layering? Sheer bravery
Perhaps I shouldn't admit this, but I'm in two minds about summer dressing. Part of me believes summer is about joy, sunshine and good times, and clothes should embrace all of that. This woman loves Pucci and owns not one but two silver kaftans. The other part of me believes summer should be uncomplicated, laid-back and earthy. This woman never checks in luggage and has worn the same black beach cover-up for so many years it's too threadbare to cover anything much.
Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: mermaidcore calls for shimmer and shells – just don’t go overboard
Wed, 22 July 2026 at 1:00 pm UTC Before wild swimming was even a twinkle in the eye of the culture, and before ice plunging went viral on TikTok, there were mermaids. Mermaids are the original summer It girls. Who doesn’t want hair that looks great when it’s wet and salty, shell jewellery, killer sex appeal and a life of sun, sea and winding up sailors for kicks? These chicks know how to live. Mermaidcore is this summer’s hottest style vibe. It is beach chic with a hot-sauce dash of brat energy.
Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: slouchy jeans and a short jacket is the new (and more chill) power suit
Jeans and a nice top is a tried-and-tested formula when it comes to dressing for an evening out. It is the little black dress of real life. A local dinner, an outing to the theatre or cinema, a birthday gathering in the pub: these do not require a cocktail dress. Still, you want to look nice. So you wear jeans and a nice top. If jeans and a nice top is the real life LBD, then jeans and a jacket is the normcore power suit. It is the no-nonsense, I've-got-this formula you need for daytime.
Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: still wearing stripes? It’s time to join the dots
For years, stripes have been the thinking fashion person's choice. The style equivalent of remembering to charge your phone overnight. Bracing like sea air, with a top note of French intellectualism. In stripes, you can captain a ship and feast on oysters. Spots and dots are much less serious. From a distance, they could be smiley face emojis. Spots bounce and dance, whereas stripes are rigid. They are spontaneous and giddy, where stripes are rational.
Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: forget delicate chains – this summer, make your jewellery big and bold
This summer, I want jewellery that makes some noise. Real noise – earrings that swish, bangles that clatter – and visual noise as well. Stuff to wear when you want to be seen and heard. The total opposite, in other words, of the jewellery most of us have been wearing lately. Charming, delicate jewellery has become the default. Two necklaces of different lengths on fine chains. One has a heart pendant, the other an initial or a birth stone, am I right?
Homecoming parade channels art and power of Rome for Fendi
“This is a cultural problem, and a political problem,” said Maria Grazia Chiuri before her first haute couture catwalk show for Fendi. The problem, as the designer sees it, is Italy’s unwillingness to acknowledge fashion’s role in culture by giving it space in museums. To challenge this, Chiuri has bookended her Rome catwalk event with two fashion exhibitions in the city.
Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: flip-flops are once again having a fashion moment. But please tread carefully
The flip-flop is an essential text of summer style. The Dalai Lama wears flip-flops. Surfers wear flip-flops. They are a beach classic, a staple of campsite shower blocks, non-negotiable after a pedicure. Like a pair of blue jeans or a cloth tote bag, they have a utility that transcends fashion. But when flip-flops step out of their lane – when they become a fashion shoe, a public-facing shoe – rather than a shoe you leave by the back door – they raise hackles.
Pierpaolo Piccioli’s couture debut reimagines Balenciaga in his own colourful image
The house of Balenciaga takes haute couture very seriously indeed. Cristóbal Balenciaga was so horrified by the rise of mass-produced clothes that, in 1968, he abruptly shuttered his brand and retired to his native Spain, announcing that “high fashion is mortally wounded”. So Pierpaolo Piccioli, who now helms the house, approached the brief of his first Balenciaga couture collection conscientiously, despite having 25 years of experience at Valentino.
Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: flip-flops are once again having a fashion moment. But please tread carefully
Wed, 8 July 2026 at 1:00 pm UTC The flip-flop is an essential text of summer style. The Dalai Lama wears flip-flops. Surfers wear flip-flops. They are a beach classic, a staple of campsite shower blocks, non-negotiable after a pedicure. Like a pair of blue jeans or a cloth tote bag, they have a utility that transcends fashion. But when flip-flops step out of their lane – when they become a fashion shoe, a public-facing shoe – rather than a shoe you leave by the back door – they raise hackles.
Chanel brings beanstalk to catwalk in fairytale Paris couture show
The first model on the Chanel catwalk was wearing a sheer mousseline skirt suit embroidered with delicate silk beanstalks, and carrying a tiny century-old leatherbound book of fairytales that once belonged to Coco Chanel herself. With the Lord of the Rings soundtrack booming through a stage set of giant parasol-scale poppies and lupins as tall as giraffes, the clothes narrated the stories in the pages. A row of buttons on the spine of a dress began with an ugly duckling, and ended with a swan.
Jonathan Anderson delivers high-concept Dior collection that celebrates the sculptural
The one person in the fashion industry who doesn’t want to talk about Taylor Swift’s as-yet-unrevealed wedding dress is the man who actually knows what it looks like. “It was a big honour,” was all that Dior’s Jonathan Anderson would say about dressing America’s de facto royal wedding. “But no, I can’t tell you anything about it. It will all come out in due course. It was a joy to work with her and we became very good friends.
Taylor Swift wears Dior wedding dress for marriage to Travis Kelce
Your English teacher and your gym teacher wore Dior: Jonathan Anderson, the Northern Irish creative director of Dior, has been revealed as the designer of haute couture wedding looks for Taylor Swift and her new husband, Travis Kelce. Photographs have not yet been released, with Swift's team in charge of timing, but a Dior statement confirmed that Swift is the first bride for whom Anderson, who joined Dior last year, has created an haute couture gown.
Taylor Swift wears Dior wedding dress for marriage to Travis Kelce
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Jess Cartner-Morley's July style essentials: statement jackets, happy stripes and the chicest white T-shirt
Summer arrived with a bang in that heatwave, right? And it's the World Cup. And Wimbledon. And nearly the end of term. Which means: it's time to have fun. Welcome to my secret shopping list for July: high-street treasures to snap up, an upgrade on the classic white T-shirt, a perfect wedding-party handbag and a towel to elevate your beach basket. Get them while it's hot! For more, read the best sunglasses for men and women with UV protection Never miss global, independent news with the Guardian app.
Jess Cartner-Morley’s July style essentials: statement jackets, happy stripes and the chicest white T-shirt
Summer arrived with a bang in that heatwave, right? And it’s the World Cup. And Wimbledon. And nearly the end of term. Which means: it’s time to have fun. Welcome to my secret shopping list for July: high-street treasures to snap up, an upgrade on the classic white T-shirt, a perfect wedding-party handbag and a towel to elevate your beach basket.
still wearing stripes? It’s time to join the dots
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Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: still wearing stripes? It’s time to join the dots
Wed, 1 July 2026 at 1:00 pm UTC For years, stripes have been the thinking fashion person’s choice. The style equivalent of remembering to charge your phone overnight. Bracing like sea air, with a top note of French intellectualism. In stripes, you can captain a ship and feast on oysters. Spots and dots are much less serious. From a distance, they could be smiley face emojis. Spots bounce and dance, whereas stripes are rigid. They are spontaneous and giddy, where stripes are rational.
Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: slouchy jeans and a short jacket is the new (and more chill) power suit
Jeans and a nice top is a tried-and-tested formula when it comes to dressing for an evening out. It is the little black dress of real life. A local dinner, an outing to the theatre or cinema, a birthday gathering in the pub: these do not require a cocktail dress. Still, you want to look nice. So you wear jeans and a nice top. If jeans and a nice top is the real life LBD, then jeans and a jacket is the normcore power suit. It is the no-nonsense, I’ve-got-this formula you need for daytime.
He knew how to rock a cagoule: the sartorial legacy of Sir Keir Starmer
It will be little consolation to Keir Starmer, who had loftier ambitions for his term of office, that he made a good fist of the tricky brief of prime ministerial style. “He had good hair” is not the legacy he hoped for. But we are where we are. Starmer’s prime ministerial look was smart, but unpretentious and unflashy. He looks good in a dark suit, which is a bonus in this job.
Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: elegant but practical, capri pants are a perfect summer look
I think we can probably agree that Audrey Hepburn would not have been seen dead in jorts. The baggy, grunge-adjacent knee-length denims that were everywhere last summer and are creeping back around are definitely cool. Totally a vibe. But elegant they are not. The capri pant is an undeniably elegant solution to the problem of what to wear when jeans or tailored trousers are too hot and cumbersome, but you don’t want to wear shorts.
Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: elegant but practical, capri pants are a perfect summer look
Updated Thu, 16 July 2026 at 9:30 am UTC I think we can probably agree that Audrey Hepburn would not have been seen dead in jorts. The baggy, grunge-adjacent knee-length denims that were everywhere last summer and are creeping back around are definitely cool. Totally a vibe. But elegant they are not. The capri pant is an undeniably elegant solution to the problem of what to wear when jeans or tailored trousers are too hot and cumbersome, but you don’t want to wear shorts.
Max Mara woos China’s luxury brand consumers
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From camel coats to guochao: Max Mara woos China’s luxury brand consumers
"New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down." For the British designer Ian Griffiths, who encountered this line in the New Yorker, it summed up why China's biggest city was the right place to celebrate Max Mara's 75th anniversary. "Max Mara is a product for metropolitan women, and it would be patronising to assume that a metropolitan wardrobe should be western-centric," Griffiths said.
Rivals’ Rutshire – a place where modern Britain’s brutal divisions disappear in a cloud of sex
‘David Tennant, as the awful Lord Baddingham, eats steak with a vindictive relish that makes Hannibal Lecter look like a vegetarian.’ Photograph: Disney +/PA For Jilly Cooper devotees – a motley band that unites me with Queen Camilla and Joanna Lumley, Ian Rankin and ex-footballer Tony Adams – it has been the best of times, and the worst of times. (No apologies for the clunky Tale of Two Cities misquote.
Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: forget your go-to maxidress – less is more this summer
Photograph: David Newby/The Guardian. Styling: Melanie Wilkinson (Photograph: David Newby/The Guardian. Styling: Melanie Wilkinson) One sunny day recently, I looked around and realised that every woman in my vicinity was wearing the same dress. Not the same dress, exactly. But the same dress. A maxidress, colourful but in a tasteful sort of way. Floaty, probably with a tiered skirt. Wholesome and vaguely rustic, but also a bit fancy.
Jess Cartner-Morley’s June style essentials: capri pants, crochet tops and the return of the kick flare
Weddings! Wimbledon! It’s June, which means that summer has well and truly arrived. The May heatwave may have flagged some gaps in your warm-weather wardrobe, so here are some of this month’s juiciest style updates. Read on for everything from the season’s most chic capri pants to bikini bottoms for under £10, plus some tips on under-the-radar brands to keep an eye on. Keep cool out there, comrades.
well, hello dolly shoes! The heels that are actually comfortable
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Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: well, hello dolly shoes! The heels that are actually comfortable
Photograph: David Newby/The Guardian. Styling: Melanie Wilkinson (Photograph: David Newby/The Guardian. Styling: Melanie Wilkinson) It seems wild to me now that I used to wear heels – and I mean high heels – every day. To work, and then out afterwards, 12, 15 hours straight. But at the time it felt entirely normal.
Louis Vuitton revives Keith Haring collaboration at lavish New York show
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Louis Vuitton revives Keith Haring collaboration at lavish New York show
Keith Haring’s motifs reimagined by Nicolas Ghesquière for Louis Vuitton. Photograph: Jeenah Moon/Reuters The allure of travelling in style helped make Louis Vuitton the biggest luxury house in the world, and no expense was spared for a trip to New York to showcase Nicolas Ghesquière’s latest collection. The first model stepped on to the catwalk carrying a 100-year-old Louis Vuitton suitcase on which the artist Keith Haring had doodled several of his signature grooving stick figures in 1984.
Louis Vuitton revives Keith Haring collaboration at lavish New York show
Keith Haring’s motifs reimagined by Nicolas Ghesquière for Louis Vuitton.Photograph: Jeenah Moon/Reuters (Photograph: Jeenah Moon/Reuters) The allure of travelling in style helped make Louis Vuitton the biggest luxury house in the world, and no expense was spared for a trip to New York to showcase Nicolas Ghesquière’s latest collection.
Louis Vuitton revives Keith Haring collaboration at lavish New York show
Keith Haring’s motifs reimagined by Nicolas Ghesquière for Louis Vuitton.Photograph: Jeenah Moon/Reuters (Photograph: Jeenah Moon/Reuters) The allure of travelling in style helped make Louis Vuitton the biggest luxury house in the world, and no expense was spared for a trip to New York to showcase Nicolas Ghesquière’s latest collection.
Posh grandpa is fashion’s new main character
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Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: Posh Grandpa is fashion’s new main character
Welcome to the season of the Posh Grandpa, fashion’s newest main character. We’ve had Brat, we did Coastal Grandma, we loved Tomato Girl Summer. The world is pretty heavy right now, as you’ll have noticed, so any opportunity to lighten up is precious. The nonsense is the point. Character dressing is style that makes you smile, but it’s not just that.
Posh grandpa is fashion’s new main character
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