Hints and tips:
...Fashion writer Caroline Young, author of Style Tribes, has called tartan “the most politicised of fabrics”....
...Faux fur has become a habit acquired young, with cheap pieces that mean it is too easily discarded....
...“It was great being around other young people who had some of the same problems but, at the same time, being held accountable....
...His apartment is “a micro-V&A” of eclectic religious artefacts and exotic antiquities....
...His first curatorial role at the V&A was in the East Asia department, where he began to introduce examples of fashion into the collection....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...I photographed Brigitte Bardot when she was very young, before she became so famous – and so tanned. She was a young girl having fun in Paris....
...ITS started eight years ago as a fashion competition for young designers and has since built up significant links with important fashion colleges worldwide....
...This indeed proved to be the case but the cork industry refused to believe it until 2000 when a young Frenchman working in a private lab in Napa Valley came up with a reliable way of measuring TCA levels...
...Emily Smith, winner of two Smarties Awards for this age group, succeeds again in Joe v. The Fairies (Corgi £3.99)....
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