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Daily Mail
37 minutes ago
- Lifestyle
- Daily Mail
Help! I'm almost 6ft tall – how do I find trousers long enough?
PROBLEM 'I'm very tall and only seem able to shop for long trousers online, which means I can't tell the quality or try them on. I need ideas for stores that cater to women like me.' SOLUTION While dresses can fall to almost any length and still look stylish, trousers are much harder to pull off when you're tall. Nobody wants them flapping around their ankles. My advice would be to look for stores that offer Tall ranges: Karen Millen, New Look and M&S are all great places to start. VERDICT 'These trousers are fab – I feel so stylish in them. They're comfy and ideal for everything from a summer BBQ to a fancy dinner. I couldn't be happier!' Hair: Dayna Vaughan-Teague at Carol Hayes using Redken Make-up: Levi-Jade Taylor at Carol Hayes using Elemis and Merit
Daily Mirror
3 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
'I'll be wearing this pretty postcard print jumpsuit all summer'
The colourful organic cotton jumpsuit is super comfy and lightweight The vibrant postcard print is dominating the fashion world this summer, with various brands incorporating the bold design into their garments. Joanie Clothing is no exception, with the retailer using the stunning print in a colourful short sleeved jumpsuit that I fell in love with the moment I laid eyes on it. What makes the Ithaca Postcard Print Short Sleeve Boilersuit different is that Joanie Clothing has used a vintage-inspired watercolour design that feels romantic and enchanting. The jumpsuit, which costs £79 and comes in sizes eight to 26, is made from a lightweight organic cotton with added stretch, making it perfect for the summer months for all-day wear. The garment boasts a neat classic collar and cute button fastenings, with an extra concealed button inside the waistband that accentuates the waist for a flattering fit. The jumpsuit has a lined bodice and slightly cropped legs that help keep the wearer cool on warm days, plus it has handy side pockets. As soon as the Ithaca Postcard Print Short Sleeve Boilersuit arrived on my doorstep, I went straight to my bedroom to try it on. The postcard pattern is even more beautiful in person; I immediately knew it was going to be one of my favourite garments of the summer. I expected the garment to be slightly creased from its journey to me, but this wasn't the case. When I first slipped into the jumpsuit, I noticed how lightweight and soft the fabric was. It felt super comfy, partly due to the elasticated channel at the back of the waist. Ithaca Postcard Print Short Sleeve Boilersuit £79 Joanie Clothing Buy here Product Description I am 5'8" and the size 14 fits me perfectly, with both the body and the legs being the desired length. The only downside to the jumpsuit was that there were a few loose pieces of thread hanging off the button holes and the stitching around the collar, but this was easily fixable by trimming them with scissors. Other retailers who have incorporated the postcard print into their garments include New Look and Next. New Look's White Postcard Print Wide Leg Trousers cost £29.99 and are available in sizes six to 18, while Next's White Postcard Print 100% Cotton Square Neck A-Line Midi Dress is priced at £48 and comes in sizes ranging from six to 22. I waited to wear the Ithaca Postcard Print Short Sleeve Boilersuit on a sunny day when it would keep me nice and cool and the colours would truly pop. During the last heatwave that graced the UK, I wore it for lunch at a seafront pub with a pair of lilac platform converse where it proved to be the perfect outfit choice. Despite the pub having all of the windows and doors open, it was still pretty warm, but the jumpsuit kept me cool. Because it's so comfy, I happily sat for hours with no discomfort, even after devouring my meal. I'm going on holiday to Portugal soon, and the jumpsuit is going to be coming with me. I'll more than likely wear it with a pair of sandals to travel in due to it being so comfy, and then I will wear it for an evening of al fresco dining overlooking the Atlantic ocean. It seems I'm not the only person who is obsessed with the Ithaca Postcard Print Short Sleeve Boilersuit, as it boasts an impressive five-star rating on the Joanie Clothing website. One delighted buyer wrote: "Love this jumpsuit. The watercolour print is beautiful, the material is quality and it fits like a dream. Would 100% recommend." Someone else commented: "Love this item, looks fab, fits perfectly with room around the middle. I bought my usual size, I'm a 34G bust and it fitted perfectly at the top with no gaping. I'm going to wear it for an evening do at a wedding and it will be great for holidays. Very comfortable." It's worth noting, however, that one shopper had to size up, as they explained: "Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous. The print is beautiful. I went up a size otherwise I wouldn't have been able to get it on and off, as I'm big busted and a big girl. It looks so gorgeous on and I can't wait to wear it out. Highly recommended." Fashion fans wanting to try Joanie Clothing's Ithaca Postcard Print Short Sleeve Boilersuit for themselves can buy it here for £79. For those who prefer dresses, the retailer has also used the pretty pattern in the Santorini Postcard Print Belted Midi Dress that's also priced at £79.
Daily Mirror
4 hours ago
- Business
- Daily Mirror
New Look closing another store after already shutting 32 shops this year
It comes after The Times reported earlier this year that New Look was looking to 'accelerate future store closures' when leases expire New Look is closing another store next weekend - after already shutting 32 sites. The fashion retailer is closing its shop in Neath, Wales on August 6. The news was shared on social media, with a photo that shows a closing down sign in the store. The sign reads: 'Thanks for having us, Neath. This store will be closing on Wednesday, 6th August. 'Don't worry, you'll still be able to find us at with 100s of new styles dropping every week.' Disappointed New Look shoppers have been reacting to the news online. One person said: 'There be nothing in Neath soon.' Another commented: 'It'll become a ghost town soon.' A third said: 'Unfortunately it's the same everywhere. Online shopping has killed the high street.' It comes after The Times reported earlier this year that New Look was looking to "accelerate future store closures" when leases expire. The newspaper said this was due to the tax increases revealed in October's budget. According to the report, around a quarter of its 364 UK stores - around 91 sites - could be at risk of closure. New Look did not confirm this report at the time. The rate of National Insurance paid by firms increased from 13.8% to 15% from April 2025. The earnings threshold for when employers start paying National Insurance was also lowered from £9,100 per year to £5,000. At the same time, minimum wage went up by 6.7% - so for someone aged 21 and over, minimum wage is now £12.21 an hour. New Look has closed 32 stores in recent months, including Northfield shopping centre in Birmingham and Willow Place shopping centre in Corby, which both shut in June. Its branches in St Austell and Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, closed in May, while locations in Porth, Rhondda Cynon Taf and Wickford, Essex, have also shut. In February, New Look also exited the Republic of Ireland which resulted in the closure of 26 stores. At the time, the company said: 'Due to the increasingly volatile trading conditions we needed to expedite our existing plans, which included conducting a review of our operations in the Republic of Ireland. 'Following this review, the group regrettably concluded it was no longer viable to continue trading here, so it has made the difficult but necessary decision to enter liquidation in this market.' The company said its Irish operation has struggled for some years, impacted by a range of factors including 'supply-chain and in-market costs, and squeezed consumer spending'. New Look employed a total of 347 people across its network in the Republic of Ireland.
Fashion Network
10 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Fashion Network
Jonathan Anderson debuts at Dior: Welcome to the New Era
Jonathan Anderson presented his debut collection for Dior behind a famed French monument to its military, Les Invalides, and at the finale it felt very much like a designer marching to glory. See catwalk Think of it as the New Era, rather than the New Look, as the Irishman riffed on Dior's DNA, and many women's wear designs of Monsieur Dior himself, to create a powerful pathbreaking fashion statement. Take Monsieur's autumn 1948 multi-fold Delft dress made in silk faille which Anderson then morphed into multi-leaf white denim cargo shorts that opened the show. Or a superb check wool coat, nipped at the waist but scalloped below the hips, a look Monsieur named Caprice from spring 1948, which led to a great series elephantine men's pants with wraparound features. The Stakhanovite Anderson has clearly been putting in long shifts at Dior, mastering the codes, delving into the archives. Playing on another Dior classic, Christian's Autumn 1952 dimpled moiré coat, La Cigale. But taking it forward into the 21st century with some great undulating coats. Plus, his Donegal tweed style versions of the house's signature Bar jacket were pretty sensational. Throughout, there was a whole Edwardian feel – with high collars, stocks and knotted bows, albeit worn without shirts, and paired with great Dior grey fracks, albeit paired with faded jeans. Plus, Anderson will surely ignite huge demand for the trim linen summer gilet - in pink or finished with flowers. While his Jacobean rogue coats will be huge hits. Many looks anchored by a new suede boxing-meets-trail bootie. He dreamed up one striking new mop bag, but otherwise played with Dior's hit fabric tote, but creating many versions printed with classic novels – from Françoise Sagan's "Bonjour Tristesse" to Bram Stroker's "Dracula". If occasionally erratic – one or two chino and striped shirts looks reminded one that Anderson has made several capsule collections for Uniqlo – it still all felt like a major menswear statement and huge hit. Without question it was the most anticipated debut by a designer at a major house this century. If there was any doubt; look at the fellow designers who showed up: Donatella Versace (for whom he briefly designed Versus), Stefano Pilati, Courrèges ' Nicolas Di Felice, Glenn Martens, Silvia Fendi, Pierpaolo Piccioli, Daniel Roseberry, Christian Louboutin, Chitose Abe, Michael Rider, Julien Dossena, Chemena Kamali, and LVMH regulars or alumni – from Pharrell Williams to Kris Van Assche. Talk about designer gridlock. See catwalk The 40-year-old Northern Irishman takes over at Dior as an already acclaimed star. Having turned Loewe, LVMH's leading Spanish brand, into the hottest show in Paris this past half decade. Jonathan's choice of location respected tradition, seeing it was the same square where his immediate predecessor Kim Jones had staged his final show for Dior in January. There the similarity ended, with not a hint of Kim's style in sight. Though the set design did recall Anderson's debut show at Loewe, which featured precisely poured concrete blocks as seats. At Dior, the audience sat on precise plywood blocks, on a plywood floor, under a high ceiling entirely made of illuminated squares. Even since he began teasing on social media his new era at Dior, it's been a respectful homage to classicism. Just like this collection, even if he also managed to turn the whole codes upside down. Somewhat eccentrically, a pre-show French speaker recounted - at length - exact cuts, darts, shapes and fabrics of Dior looks, which turned out to be indie director and French heartthrob, Louis Garrel reading from the memoir "Dior and I". Garrel, whose mop-top hair appears to have been the inspiration for all the models' hairstyle, joined Louvre director Laurence Descartes, Roger Federer, Robert Pattinson, Daniel Craig and Rihanna, in the front row. In teases and in the show, Jonathan also played on Monsieur Dior's great affection for British taste with an opening Instagram post of a blue shirt fabric with a pin for Dior. Putting that online in mid-April six weeks before his appointment was official. Posting all manner of hints from a tape measure curled into a thimble to look like a snail on huge leaf, to an embroidered Louis XIV chair, he personally redesigned. Anderson – who will direct menswear, women's wear and couture at Dior - restored the house's dove gray logo, and replaced the all capital Dior, with just the "D" capitalized. Seen at the entrance to the huge show tent, over a giant illustration of Dior's neo-classical salon on Avenue Montaigne, which witnessed the birth of the house, and the legendary New Look on February 12, 1947. Which segued into two works of fine art – oil paintings by J.B.S. Chardin of a vase full of flowers, or a plate of raspberries – that hung inside the show. Both lent for the show by the Louvre, and much admired by LVMH CEO, and Anderson's ultimate boss, French billionaire, Bernard Arnault, who studied them carefully. As did Jonathan's proud parents, his rugby playing father and one-time captain of the Irish national rugby team Willie, and his elegant schoolteacher mum, Heather. See catwalk Post show, when asked his thoughts on the show, Arnault told 'It was, frankly, magnifique!' Though perhaps the most chatter this fashion sea change inspired was thanks to Anderson's idiosyncratic invitation – a ceramic white plate with three ceramic eggs. Like the solid stools, there was a sense of reassurance. Back when Jonathan was a teen growing up in the outskirts of the small town of Magherafelt in County Derry, his first teenage job was gathering eggs from a local farm. 'Next thing you know, we came back home and there was a sign, 'eggs for sale.' He as selling them. Jonathan has always been an incredibly hard worker. He puts his head down and never stops. But he is still the same person we knew when he left Northern Ireland. And we like that,' said his proud dad.
Yahoo
12 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Jonathan Anderson's Dior Man Is a Delight
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." There's a new (new, new) look at Dior. After weeks of teasing glimpses, Jonathan Anderson has finally started to unveil his vision for the nearly 80-year-old fashion house. At Les Invalides in Paris, Anderson showed his debut collection for Dior men's and presented an entirely fresh vernacular for the global brand—one that delicately balanced the historical with the present while presenting lots of propositions for the future. The livestream began with videos of brand ambassadors traveling to the show. Lakeith Stanfield and Josh O'Connor chitchatted in the back of the cab, while Robert Pattinson leisurely strolled into an elevator. All of these guys were decked out in Anderson's new Dior, or perhaps it was less decked out and more dressed. Impossibly stylish, the clothes bend the arch between a dapper man and someone who's a bit of a scoundrel. Outside, Anderson collaborator and friend the director Luca Guadagnino was filming some of the recognizable guests who began to arrive, like Sam Nivola and Donatella Versace. Rihanna and A$AP Rocky were there. Sabrina Carpenter pulled up wearing an Anderson-ized version of Dior's New Look. Inside the venue, a nearly-empty gallery space had been built, punctuated only by light parquet floors and wooden blocks for seats. The walls were sparsely hung with still life paintings by Old Masters like Jean Siméon Chardin, whose work Monsieur Dior was fond of. Other than Versace, several more designers came out to support Anderson, including Pierpaolo Piccioli and Matthieu Blazy, both set to make their own debuts, at Balenciaga and Chanel respectively, this fall. The anticipation for this collection was high, to say the least. Once the first look hit the runway, it was clear just how much the hype had been warranted. Bang out of the gate, a hit: Anderson paired a Donegal tweed bar jacket with ballooning cargo shorts fastened with a pleated, cascading bustle at the back, a design loosely inspired by the mille-feuille dress silhouettes Monsieur Dior showed at the beginning of his career. Everything that followed painted a delightful, whip-smart portrait of the past infused with the present. Riffing off of ideas from his final womenswear collection for Loewe last year, Anderson wrote in the show notes that these pieces were meant to signify 'a reconstruction of formality' and celebrate the 'joy in the art of dressing: a spontaneous, empathetic collusion of then and now, of relics of the past things rediscovered in the archives, classic tropes of class, and pieces that have endured the test of time.' For any other designer, finding resonance with 'then and now' at a storied house might manifest itself as a re-issue. Anderson is one of the most important designers of his generation because he understands how not to do that. He makes things that are recognizable and ripped from history books and turns them into something we've never seen before. For Spring 2026, Anderson did this by crafting precise replicas of embroidered waistcoats and pairing them with white jeans and sneakers. Basic neckties were loose and worn flipped over to reveal Anderson's revamp of the Dior logo—a journey back to its roots when M. Dior, in his exacting way, would only settle for a French-style font. There were classic cravats and rococo-style micro-florals set against athletic socks and fisherman sandals. Anderson's new book totes were carried throughout the show, touting titles like Bonjour Tristesse and In Cold Blood—accessories for a hot dude who reads. The capes and maxi shirt-dresses added touches of Anderson's signature kookiness, abstracting and bending the idea of time even further. These men were dandy and regal, but also a little rough around the edges, the kind that Anderson has made into a bona fide style archetype over the last decade. No one else could, at least in this moment, make eighteenth-century wardrobe staples feel like they belonged with a pair of barrel leg jeans. Anderson imagines completely unimaginable wardrobes for those outside of the fashion sphere, for those who never thought a tie could be worn backwards or a pair of cargos could sashay. The biggest challenge of these gargantuan creative director jobs at luxury houses is being everything to everyone—being a creative director whose clothes, marketing, ambassadors, and accessories appeal to the classic brand loyalists, the high-net worth clients who want a logo splattered all over their bodies, and the kids who are looking for someone to tell them what's coming next. Anderson can imagine something for every luxury customer, and he has the vision to build new sartorial archetypes through instinctive design. He got a standing ovation of course, walking out with a shy swagger, the kind we'd just witnessed reverberate through the clothes he showed on the runway. This is the delight and the dream of Anderson. It was then, it is now, and it will be as he keeps moving ahead at Dior. You Might Also Like 4 Investment-Worthy Skincare Finds From Sephora The 17 Best Retinol Creams Worth Adding to Your Skin Care Routine
