Fashion: Back to the future

Designers are reinterpreting vintage silhouettes in a thoroughly modern manner. Styling by Sophia Neophitou. Photographs by Jean-Paul Pietrus

Left dress, pounds 680, shoes, pounds 220, both by Comme des Garcons, 59 Brook Street, London W1, enquiries 0171-493 1258

Right dress, pounds 470, and gloves, from a selection, both by Yohji Yamamoto, 14-15 Conduit Street, London W1, enquiries 0171-491 4129

This page dress, and cape with white lining, to order, by Viktor and Rolf Couture, enquiries 00 33 1 423 39305

Right taffeta frill-front shirt and matching knickers, to order, by Oscar Suleyman

from Browns, 23-27 South Molton Street, London W1, enquiries 0171-491 7833

Reversible skirt, to order, by Sophia Kokosalaki, enquiries 0171- 836 7584; muslin blouson shirt, pounds 325, by Balenciaga, available from Joseph, 16 Sloane Street, London SW1, enquiries 0171-823 9500; leather 'cut-me- out' jacket, to order, by Boudicca, available from The Pineal Eye, 49 Broadwick Street, London W1, enquiries 0171-434 2567

Hair Jennie Roberts at Public for Aveda

Make-up Christopher Ardoss at Public using Ruby and Millie

Model Eva Strus at Take Two