Category: Style

  • Testing trends from fashion week

    Pics credit to Shannon Flanders, Topman, Rowan Row, KRXU and Oliver Spencer The great and the good of the fashion world are currently in the midst of a whirlwind tour which kicked off in London with #LFWM last week and has since rolled into Florence, Milan and Switzerland…and counting. As ever there have been a…

  • This Savile Row pop-up shop is raising money for Crisis

    There is a new pop-up store coming to London this Christmas. Tom Stubbs, the man behind the wonderfully named Style and Error accounts, is the driving force behind the “call to garms” Savile Row pop-up store in aid of Crisis. You can – and should – find more from the stylist, style writer and FT…

  • Clearing out the wardrobe

    “The first step in solving any problem is recognising there is one.” This sentiment has been expressed in many forms and outlets, though possibly never better than by Jeff Daniels in the opening scene of Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom – yes I’m a journalistic cliché, but if you’ve not seen it then watch it here.…

  • My style manifesto

    “Clothes,” according to designer Michael Kors, “are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music.” I love the idea of clothes as something you enjoy and which allow you – through your personal choices of what you like and what you champion – to express yourself in another way. But my own…

  • The summer of the waistcoat

    A few years ago a young man sat at a desk in a small English town and rubbed his hand across a clean-shaven chin. As he sipped a cup of tea he peered out of the window at what was, presumably, a fairly mundane view, and contemplated the world going by outside and his place…

  • The art of the smart t-shirt

    Is it ever acceptable to wear a t-shirt to a formal occasion? It is not a question I have ever really pondered because I’ve thought the answer was simple: No. That is until this weekend. To mark Father’s Day on Sunday, my sister Kate and I had got our dad tickets to The Play That…

  • Dressing for short men: Topman jeans

    Shopping for jeans can be a very testing experience, primarily because jeans are quite a personal item of clothing. If you wear jeans then, chances are, you wear them a lot. So you want a pair which are comfortable, wearing, stylish and – most of all – which fit. The latter is a problem for…

  • Styling for the shorter man

    “Dressing well is a form of good manners.” I heartily agree with this, much mis-quoted, assertion from style legend Tom Ford. But I have a problem. I am one of those people to whom the fashion world does not cater. I am 5’5″, relatively slim and boast an impressively compact 28-inch leg. Believe me when…

  • Royal Wedding style tips

    The Royal Wedding is in the bag and hopefully the happy couple have now settled in to enjoy the afterglow. Behave yourselves. As I write this the nation’s newspapers and bloggers are currently picking through their thoughts on the big day. But I am focusing on one simple thing: what style tips can we take…

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    Life lessons from William Gilchrist

    Meet William Gilchrist. If you are not currently familiar with him and his body of work, I suggest becoming familiar as quickly as possible. I am a people person. Other people interest me; I like finding out about them, what they do, what they like, where they’ve been. But every now and then I find…