Book review – fashion

Vanity fair and foul

12 December 2015 9:00 am

People tend to use the term ‘fashion victim’ somewhat damningly — and maybe jealously — to describe someone obsessed by…

Elsa Schiaparelli in an apartment in the Place Vendôme, in the shadow of Napoleon

Shock and awe

15 November 2014 9:00 am

A comet streaked into France in the 1930s, its fallout sending the staid echelons of haute couture into a tailspin.…