Feathers! Sequins! Lamé! Why this year’s fashion feels more joyful than ever Rachael Dove © Marni Market Marni Market Goes Around, Shoot imagery (8).jpg
Sequin sweatpants. That’s what flashed through the London king of glitzy party dresses Michael Halpern’s mind when the pandemic hit. ‘I thought, “Oh my God, are we going to have to become some kind of glam leisurewear brand?”’ says the designer, whose dresses are so va-va-voom that Donatella Versace scooped him up to work for her after seeing his graduate collection. But then something happened: as his new season hot-pink, feather-strewn gowns and zebra-print satin minidresses dropped at Harrods and Net-A-Porter, people started to buy them, no matter that it was lockdown and everywhere was closed. ‘It really solidified the point of view I have about fashion, which is that it is all about joy and hope,’ he says.
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I used to think mother-daughter dressing was cringey. Now I ve changed my mind
From J.Lo and her mum to Carole Middleton and the Duchess of Cambridge, a shared love of clothes doesn’t have to be a cringe-fest
13 March 2021 • 6:00am
The apple doesn t fall far from the tree: Carine Roitfeld and Julia Restoin Roitfeld, Jennifer Lopez and Guadalupe Rodríguez, the Duchess of Cambridge and Carole Middleton
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Mother-daughter dressing has a bad rep. Not all of it underserved. There are the mothers who rush their teeny daughters into sexually provocative outfits almost as soon as they’re out of babygrows in order to bank an unignorable photo opp when they and Mini Miss step out in matching sequins.
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Exactly a year ago I was in Paris in the last days of fashion month, with the spectre of the pandemic creeping ever closer. This year I am in front of a computer screen watching the filmed runway shows of the virtual fashion weeks and missing the glamour, so much so that I have put on long sparkly earrings and glittery Miu Miu shoes just to put me in the zone.
It must have felt worse for the Golden Globe nominees stuck at home, wearing couture in their kitchens, for the awards ceremony. Comfy couches replaced the red carpet while they waited on Zoom to hear if they had won a gong or not. Everyone is feeling starved of high-octane glamour and none more so than the fashion houses who rely on the oxygen of publicity surrounding the red-carpet season. Nevertheless, as was proved at last weekend’s awards ceremony, the stars stepped up to the plate and did the fashion houses proud, twirling for selfies on their smartphone cameras wearing Dior, Prada and Oscar de la Renta.
I have spent the past few days at London fashion week, while really missing London fashion week. Watching dresses glide past on my laptop screen, wishing I was squished on to a hard concrete bench up close and personal with the real thing. Pining for salacious front row gossip, for haughty models switching their skirts like crocodile tails, for tantrums and tiaras and fashion week in all its mayhem and madness. The first ever all-digital London.
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