Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...Designer Clare Vivier, founder of accessories brand Clare V, has been crazy about tennis since high school and has collaborated on a capsule collection with tennis magazine Racquet....
...Victoria Beckham cotton V-neck top (worn underneath), £390. Santoni leather Penny loafer shoes, £505. Pantherella cotton ribbed socks, £16....
...Brioni has also amped up the polo shirt’s texture, weaving polos in a thick ribbed cotton and wool blend, while Zegna’s have a slouchy, oversized fit and dramatic scooped V-necks....
...Gohar World and Super Yaya offer a stylish solution with their limited-edition chequered basket bag made from bazin, a cotton fabric that’s handwoven in Beirut....
...There are everyday staples such as shirts in cotton poplin and sandwashed silk, cashmere jumpers and vests in pastel shades of lemon yellow, dusty pink and sky blue, navy jumpsuits and a trench coat – as...
...), striped or patterned cotton shirts (£590), cashmere scarves (£490) and ties (£155)....
...architecture and material has won countless awards; been acquired by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, MoMA San Francisco and The Pompidou Centre in Paris; and exhibited globally, including at the V&...
...There is also a bed collection in organic cotton and linen, and in cotton and cashmere, that can be lavishly layered with a queen-size cashmere blanket edged in a choice of cashmere chevron ribbon, plus...
...According to Phillip V Snyder’s 1977 bauble bible, The Christmas Tree Book, the first glass ornaments from Germany arrived in the US in the 1860s....
...“The beauty of African fashion is that it is as varied as the continent itself,” says Dr Christine Checinska, who curated the V&A’s recent exhibition Africa Fashion (now at the Brooklyn Museum until October...
...Sandro cotton mesh shirt, €225. Loro Piana cotton T-shirt, £590....
...It’s also the most immaculate curation I’ve seen since visiting the Chanel show at the V&A....
...ribbed socks, £20, mrporter.com Utu Lamps metal, brass and marble Pyppe floor lamp, €921 Acne Studios wool scarf, £180, mrporter.com Louis Vuitton silk Diamonds V tie, £170 Ralph Lauren Purple Label...
...I started wearing Scottish cotton marcels [vests], Agnès b men’s shirts, oversized pants upgraded with a thin red leather belt and sneakers without laces....
...The V&A’s exhibition gives plenty of food for thought about all this....
...You could even try a sporty V-neck knit — Margaret Howell’s collaboration with Fred Perry is just the ticket (£135, margarethowell.co.uk)....
...Nevertheless, my style as an early-thirtysomething has been slowly morphing into his for a while; last year, I even bought us matching waxed cotton bucket hats....
...Under the jacket, the musician wore a white cotton cuff-less shirt and slender white tie — the whole look pulled together by an 8-carat white diamond brooch and ring by Lorraine Schwartz, and a pearl and...
...Dark jeans, for example, with a V-neck sweater and a shirt but no tie; chinos or cotton trousers, with a shirt and cardigan, or lots of knitwear....
...“The classic” style works for most necks but choose a V-neck or scoop if your bust is full (£65, sunspel.com). Now you can layer on top with a cardigan from Allude (£355, net-a-porter.com)....
...These 33 designs for silk and cotton are delicate, repeat patterns of innocent pleasures: wobbly ice creams, skittish butterflies, tumbling clowns, fruits and pretzels, rendered in candy-cane colours and...
...Redman’s desk in the vast complex of the Victoria and Albert Museum are the tools of her trade: a pot of skinny brushes, a box of “insect pins”, scalpels, bamboo skewers, a pair of purple nitrile gloves, cotton...
...net-a-porter.com Vincenzo Romanelli bronze Sea Urchin sculpture, 2018, €7,000 Henry Holland Studio Tudor medium earthenware vase, £225, matchesfashion.com The Backward Vendor leather Hubbard Basket V,...
...paintings, and beaded flapper dresses shrouded in organza as if freshly pulled from storage at the V&A....
...Let’s say you commute on a warm day in a sleeveless cotton top, a light cotton trouser and smart sandals, you can then add a simple crew or V-neck merino to protect you from that ice cold blast in the office...
International Edition