British designer Edward Crutchley is best known for his uber-luxurious collections, which often reach across continents for inspiration. Case in point: his Spring/Summer 2021 collection looked to Japanese film director Hideo Gosha’s 1986 film
Gokudô No Onna-Tachi, resulting in an assemblage of Ottoman kaftans, prints up-cycled from vintage Japanese kabuki costumes and 1930s silky kimonos.
For Autumn/Winter 2021, however, Yorkshire-born Crutchley looked closer to home and his latest collection, Florizel (the original name of ITV soap opera
Coronation Street), is a paean to Northern England. “I wanted to highlight that British nerve, that Northern Britishness,” the designer explained to
GQ. “In particular I wanted to pay homage to that sort of gritty glamour you only find up north.”
I can barely type the numbers without feeling a little shocked. Me, 60 - how did this happen? An age I still associate with retirement, pensions, Wallace Arnold coach trips and blue rinses. When I was young that is what 60 meant. Sixty was seriously OLD. By that age many people had left work. Companies rarely allowed you to stay on beyond retirement age, which at that time, for women, was 60. In those days it was an age at which you joined Darby & Joan clubs, ate pensioner specials in smoky pub corners and sat in in village halls of an evening enjoying beetle drives (for anyone under 40, it’s a game - nothing to do with cars).
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Only Fools and Horses Christmas Special
- Credit: BBC
Like turkey and tinsel, advent calendars and carols, cracking TV programmes are a tradition for most of us during the festive season. With your selection box and port at the ready, here is a countdown of 10 of our best-loved Christmas TV moments, from jaw-dropping revelations to cuddly cartoon characters, vicars to a Royle baby.
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Only Fools and Horses Christmas Special
- Credit: BBC
Like turkey and tinsel, advent calendars and carols, cracking TV programmes are a tradition for most of us during the festive season. With your selection box and port at the ready, here is a countdown of 10 of our best-loved Christmas TV moments, from jaw-dropping revelations to cuddly cartoon characters, vicars to a Royle baby.
1. Dirty Den and Angie’s divorce (EastEnders, 1986): The Granddaddy of them all and the benchmark for anyone striving for a truly miserable Christmas, 30.2 million people tuned in to watch Den Watts hand Angie the divorce papers after finding out that she’d been lying about only having six months to live (in lying terms, this is a really difficult one to pull off). “Happy Christmas, Ange…” said Den, shortly after telling her he’d overheard her confessing her “big black lie” to, of all people, a waiter on the Orient Express.