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  • 3 days ago | vogue.co.uk | Joy Montgomery

    If there was one thing I wanted more than any other in my early teens (aside from grape-scented gel pens and Marissa Cooper’s Malibu tan), it was Miss Sixty jeans. These weren’t your run-of-the-mill Noughties kickflares, these were pubic bone-grazing, thigh-squeezing flares, with hemlines that would perfectly puddle over your pointed kitten heels and an oversized square belt so distinctive it could be spotted from space. A little risqué for a 13 year old?

  • 1 week ago | vogue.co.uk | Joy Montgomery |Alice Cary

    Questions over the state of luxury fashion loomed large across the autumn/winter 2025 season. It’s no secret that the industry has experienced a battering post-pandemic: according to The Business Of Fashion, excluding 2020, 2025 marks the first decline in luxury value creation for the first time since 2016 – with brands under increasing pressure to meet the bottom line, while still delivering exclusivity and cultural relevance.

  • 1 week ago | vogue.co.uk | Joy Montgomery

    When Vetements held its runway debut for spring/summer 2015, Vogue’s Maya Singer described it as “the kind of thing a woman could grab rumpled off the floor and put on in the dark”. Extended shirt cuffs trailed beyond fingertips, baggy track pants pooled on the floor and tailored outerwear hung off models’ shoulders like little girls dressing up in their dad’s suit jacket.

  • 1 week ago | vogue.co.uk | Joy Montgomery

    There was a period of time, roughly between 2015 and 2021, when every summer seemed to yield a specific It-dress: one style that eventually became so ubiquitous and impossible to avoid – online and in real life – that it would start to feel as though we were living in the Matrix (and Zara was the headline sponsor).

  • 2 weeks ago | vogue.co.uk | Joy Montgomery

    Sponsored by H&MWith so much fashion existing online, there’s something refreshing about trying pieces on in-store. Enter Just Browsing: We’re taking you into the changing room as we preview the newest collections from some of our favourite high-street brands and contemporary labels. We’ll get into fabric and quality, fit and feel, and so much more as we make our way through the shop floor.

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Joy Barber-Starkey
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Joy Barber-Starkey
Joy Barber-Starkey @joy_starkey
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RT @MandyHickson: There is a little coffee shop, where two people arrive and approached the counter. “Five coffees please. Two for us and…