http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/frankel/?service=Rss http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/ready-to-wear-houndstooth-is-fierce-and-signifies-power-over-and-above-prettiness-1813062.html http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/ready-to-wear-houndstooth-is-fierce-and-signifies-power-over-and-above-prettiness-1813062.html <p>Houndstooth check is very fashionable just now and if ever there was a signifier of fashion aimed squarely at those with womanly – as opposed to girlish – tastes, then this must surely be it.</p> Features Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/ready-to-wear-everything-from-vintage-dresses-to-fine-furnishing-fabric-is-dissected-1809344.html http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/ready-to-wear-everything-from-vintage-dresses-to-fine-furnishing-fabric-is-dissected-1809344.html <p> It's all the things that mean something to me, things that I love," says the former journalist/stylist/photographer and suitably impressive fashion Renaissance man, Iain R Webb, about his latest venture. </p> Features Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/ready-to-wear-ellen-von-unwerthrsquos-photographs-seem-very-relevant-for-now-1805084.html http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/ready-to-wear-ellen-von-unwerthrsquos-photographs-seem-very-relevant-for-now-1805084.html <p> There is a complicity between subject and onlooker in Ellen Von Unwerth’s photography that is unusual if not entirely surprising given the story of the brains behind it. Von Unwerth, after all, like both Sarah Moon and Corinne Day, is a female photographer who worked as a model before changing sides. She is therefore, inherently, and without anything even approaching the worthy, rather more sensitive in her approach to her subjects than most. </p> Features Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:13 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/ready-to-wear-a-midheel-is-very-much-in-evidence-for-the-forthcoming-season-1801200.html http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/ready-to-wear-a-midheel-is-very-much-in-evidence-for-the-forthcoming-season-1801200.html <p>Paris in the rain. Not that the inclement weather did much to dampen the fashion followers' penchant for wearing elaborate and ever more vertiginous footwear. That's the kind that looks like strangely futuristic vehicles as opposed to anything as pragmatic as a humble shoe, and that is guaranteed to attract strange glances on the school run.</p> Features Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:01 +0100