Fashion
The Skinny fashion guide for Scotland, the Northwest and London. We focus on new talent and emerging designers, offering unique access to graduate showcases and pop-up events in your area. Featuring fashion designers, the latest show previews and reviews, photography and fashion week coverage.
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Give Festival Season Some Welly
Don't kid yourself about legendary line-ups and campsite camaraderie - the best thing about festival season is that it affords urban sophisticates the opportunity to legitimately run around in Wellington boots. Harking back to those endless days when we were all popping cola bottles and flying saucers (or, last Wednesday, as we call it at Skinny Towers), wellies as everyday attire is a little slice of nostalgia that's worth taking full advantage of. The high street is already littered with patterned boots as loud as the main stage, whilst block colours always leave open the option of making like Dame Shirley Bassey at Glastonbury, and emblazoning your initials on the side in Swarovskis. Or for real school holiday authenticity, go with "L" and "R" in marker pen - just so you don't forget... Read more »| 17 Jun 2008 -
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Shop-We-Like : Xile Clothing
With over 25 years of experience under their belt, Xile have established themselves as one of Britain’s leading independent fashion stores. Since open... Read more »| 17 Jun 2008 -
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Meet the Designer: Keira Thorley
As Keira Thorley of up-and-coming label, Keira, will tell you, the collections have a lot of love sewn in: "I want women to feel like these photos. The cloth... Read more »| 17 Jun 2008 -
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We Like Your Style: Cate Blanchett in I'm Not There
Even with a sock down her pants and a swagger in her pelvis-led step, the ass gives Cate Blanchett away. It’s still a lady bum: even constricted in sli... Read more »| 19 May 2008 -
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Shop-We-Like: Raw Vintage
Up-and-coming labels, alterations, and a bespoke design service? Glasgow™s Raw Vintage is smarter than your average store. Read more »| 23 Apr 2008 -
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We Like Your Style: Jem
Sartorial Salutes in the Direction of the Great and the Good This month: Jem Read more »| 23 Apr 2008
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Are You a Heather(ette)?
New York fashion luminaries and purveyors of all things pink, Heatherette, have shimmied their way into the cosmetics world with their limited edition range ... Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
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Buy one thing
Utterly confusing the shoe/boots ('shoots') issue by paring back the Oxford to its skeleton (so, skoots?), these Topshop beauties are a nude-coloured treat t... Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
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Just one more thing...
Yes, we probably will break our necks. But believe me, those countless months in traction and that touch-and-go possibility of permanent paralysis will be mo... Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
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The Bjork Imperative
Welcome, one and all, to The Skinny's brand new fashion section Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
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Specs Appeal
Extravagant opticals at down-to-earth prices, with a website that talks back? Welcome to the world of Oscar & Fitch Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
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SKINNY jeans
Ford models on Youtube. Destiny, in the form or pretty people being dim. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
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SKINNY jeans
Je T'Aime, Marc, Je T'Aime Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
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SKINNY selections
Everyone knows that obvious T-shirts are lame, however ironic their wearers may like to think they are Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
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SKINNY jeans
Expect rampant fashion larceny on the release of Sex and the City: The Movie Read more »| 06 Jan 2008