Fashion

In the Elizabethan Age feminine extravagance was often satirised by English dramatists and poets. During the seventeenth century, writes Brenda Gourgey, it rose to even more fantastic heights.

Benjamin Wild finds that the Middle Ages is inspiring a number of major designers.

The make-up master died on August 30th, 1938.

As the arbiter of taste to high society, Beau Brummell became a friend of the Prince Regent. It wouldn’t last. By Nicholas Storey.

Christina Walkley reflects on the crinoline, a controversial style of skirt that became a short-lived fashion phenomenon.

Richard Weight reassesses Quentin Bell’s 1951 article on the morality of fashion, which anticipated the enormous social and stylistic changes of the 1960s.

Stella Mary Pearce uses the example of the Renaissance to reflect on the links between interesting times and their fashions.

Quentin Bell unveils deeper meanings from the ever-evolving history of fashion and fancy dress.

Quentin Bell looks at the revolutions at work within fashion over the years, rational and otherwise.

The history of the tuxedo, and other garments named after historic people or places.