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Daily Mail
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Lily James ditches typically elegant style for a new gothic look as she hits the streets in London
Lily James displayed a new gothic style as she stepped out in London over the weekend. The actress, 36, ditched her usual honey-brunette locks for a darker color - giving her usually elegant style a punk feel. She wore a battered leather jacket for the outing, which she teamed with navy leggings and Birkenstock sandals. It is not clear whether the new look is for a role or just to freshen up her style. Lily said previous said about her appearance: 'I work with my stylist, Rebecca Corbin Murray, to find an outfit that looks and feels right. It really is a strong feeling as soon as I put the right outfit on... 'We've worked together for a lot of time, so there's a great synergy between us. I have to feel confident in what I'm wearing, and if I don't, I feel so nervous, and I can't walk out the door.'
Al Arabiya
27-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Al Arabiya
Dandyism, Decadence and a Taste of Rebellion at Junya Watanabe's Vision of Paris
A new kind of dandy took over Junya Watanabe's runway on Friday–not the traditional gentleman, but a sharp-dressed rebel with a streak of punk at Paris Fashion Week. Watanabe, the pioneering Japanese designer known for mixing classic tailoring with a wild creative edge, unveiled a lineup of bold, offbeat looks at the Lycée Carnot. The show was sharp but rebellious, rich in history but full of energy. It wasn't about looking back. It was an explosion of new ideas. Watanabe has built his reputation by smashing the line between elegance and rebellion. This season, he didn't just mix old and new; he turned history into a weapon. His spring men's collection borrowed from the past–rich brocades, jacquards, and a hint of Rococo flair–but reimagined them with a bold punk attitude. Jackets worthy of Venetian nobility were paired with rugged workwear and raw denim, creating looks that felt both grand and streetwise. The music followed the same energy, starting with a traditional piano piece breaking down into a thumping city beat. Classic style was pulled apart and rebuilt right on the runway. Some outfits showed off sharp, careful tailoring, but the order quickly fell away–seams went crooked, sashes trailed loose, wild patterns took over. Even the ties broke free, knotted multiple times in ways that broke from tradition. Despite the wild mix of styles, the show was more than just patchwork. Watanabe was making a statement about taste itself–a constant tug-of-war between old ideas and breaking the rules. Familiar touches–a monk's robe, the rooftops of Florence–were turned into clever fashion puzzles. Throughout the collection, Watanabe's eye for detail and contradiction remained. He's known for boldly mixing sharp tailoring with street style, blending Japanese tradition with punk energy. This season, he sharpened that approach into clothes that were both smart and full of electricity, pieces that challenged the idea of what it means to dress well. By the end, the dandy wasn't just a gentleman–he was sharper, braver, both thinker and rebel.
Associated Press
27-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Associated Press
Dandyism, decadence and a taste of rebellion at Junya Watanabe's vision of Paris
PARIS (AP) — A new kind of dandy took over Junya Watanabe's runway on Friday — not the traditional gentleman, but a sharp-dressed rebel with a streak of punk at Paris Fashion Week. Watanabe, the pioneering Japanese designer known for mixing classic tailoring with a wild, creative edge, unveiled a lineup of bold, offbeat looks at the Lycée Carnot. The show was sharp but rebellious, rich in history but full of energy. It wasn't about looking back. It was an explosion of new ideas. Watanabe has built his reputation by smashing the line between elegance and rebellion. This season, he didn't just mix old and new, he turned history into a weapon. His spring men's collection borrowed from the past — rich brocades, jacquards and a hint of Rococo flair — but reimagined them with a bold, punk attitude. Jackets worthy of Venetian nobility were paired with rugged workwear and raw denim, creating looks that felt both grand and streetwise. The music followed the same energy, starting with a traditional piano piece breaking down into a thumping city beat. Classic style was pulled apart and rebuilt right on the runway. Some outfits showed off sharp, careful tailoring, but the order quickly fell away — seams went crooked, sashes trailed loose, wild patterns took over. Even the ties broke free, knotted multiple times in ways that broke from tradition. Despite the wild mix of styles, the show was more than just patchwork. Watanabe was making a statement about taste itself — a constant tug-of-war between old ideas and breaking the rules. Familiar touches — a monk's robe, the rooftops of Florence — were turned into clever fashion puzzles. Throughout the collection, Watanabe's eye for detail and contradiction remained. He's known for boldly mixing sharp tailoring with street style, blending Japanese tradition with punk energy. This season, he sharpened that approach into clothes that were both smart and full of electricity, pieces that challenged the idea of what it means to dress well. By the end, the dandy wasn't just a gentleman —he was sharper, braver, both thinker and rebel.
Vogue
22-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
Vivienne Westwood Spring 2026 Menswear Collection
Pirate, Buffalo Girls, Savages, Punkature: right from the start Vivienne Westwood's collections plundered freely from the past and mixed womenswear with men's to create a fashion freezone in which the rules of convention were gleefully disregarded. That punk impulse to disrupt still remains at the core of the house's heritage following her passing nearly three years ago. This morning Westwood's widower and house co-pilot for over three decades, Andreas Kronthaler, reestablished the brand's presence on the Milan menswear schedule for the first time since June 2016. More dynamic mise-en-scene than show, it saw an overwhelmingly male cast take their passeggiata through a San Babila cafe and then out into a street side marble-floored arcade. While the collection we were here to see was menswear, including beautifully loose and louche tailoring, there was an interjection of pieces plundered from across the house's current womenswear collections. 'I can't avoid it,' said Kronthaler. 'I don't think there should be strict separations of anything; I don't think it ever works. And there is always in a man a little bit of woman: sometimes quite a lot.' Quite-a-lot looks included the faux-fur leopard coat and python print court shoes and handbag: racy Milan nonna meets Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. A statuesquely-draped floral photo print dress was teamed with roman sandals and a cursive metal necklace that spelt out a curse word. There was a strong rose-embroidered tabard with a mid-calf red satin boot. A rugby shirt was extended to ankle length: a stretch knit patterned bodysuit with a navel-gazing aperture was equal-opportunities provocative. The tailoring took a satirical approach to peacock dressing, hoiking pants as high as they would rise, peaking lapels to the apex of shoulder lines. Shirting and dress pants in crisp cottons were cut to undulate and enhanced with fulsome pocketing. A red T-shirt printed with a portrait of Garibaldi—whose Redshirts drove the uprising that unified Italy—cutely unified a masculine shawl collar tailored menswear jacket and some feminine skirt-fronted shorts in oversized gold pinstripe. Humorous and anti-consumerist, this return to Milan prefigured a more conventional runway approach next January. When it was put to Kronthaler that the house is now a heritage brand whose source code is subversion, he said: 'There are so many things here, really, like no other brand. Because of [Westwood's] long work and going through so many facets and changes, there are four or five different periods that belong to this house somehow. But at the same time we are not nostalgic.' As he spoke, the bells of San Babila church across the road sounded notice of midday. Whatever Kronthaler's suspicion of nostalgia, it was a thrill to see the same platforms that so famously upended Naomi Campbell on the runway make fall-free cameos in two looks towards the end of this show. Vivienne Westwood was close to inarguably the most influential designer of her time: her name should continue to resound as loudly as San Babila's bells.
Daily Mail
21-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
I went on Antiques Roadshow and the BBC said my items were too offensive and politically incorrect to broadcast - despite their eye-watering £20k value
The BBC 's long-running teatime favourite Antiques Roadshow is not known for being a particularly controversial show. But Robert Needs brought quite a different tone to proceedings with his collection of vintage punk fashion on an episode filmed in Cardiff last year. The 68-year-old grandad, who partied with the Sex Pistols in the seventies, reflected on his younger years as he spoke to expert appraiser Lisa Lloyd. He said he bought the clothes from Sex, the punk boutique run by fashion designer Vivienne Westwood and her then-partner and Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren. The shop - now renamed World's End but still on the King's Road in London 's Chelsea area - was also where the band met and how they got their name. But some of Robert's purchases from the shop, known for its outrageous designs, were deemed unsuitable for showing on the BBC programme. Expert Lisa was first to point this out on the show, 'Incredibly un-PC' - but still later valuing his collection of around 20 T-shirts at around £1,000 each. Robert chuckled: 'They told me they couldn't show most of them on camera. Way too naughty for Roadshow viewers I suppose.' He continued: 'I shouldn't really be shocked though because a lot of Westwood's designs were deliberately very provocative, with plenty of nudity or imagery which could be considered offensive - like Nazi swastikas, for example. 'But that was the whole point of it back then, they were intended to be controversial.' The guest said he often used to travel from Wales to London to go to the boutique. 'There was already a ready-made punk scene going on in south Wales at the time, except we called ourselves "Soul Boys" - the term "punk" was more something the media came up with later on', he explained. 'And it was during a visit to Sex that we met the lads from the Pistols. 'They were amazed to hear they had a lot of Welsh fans back home because they'd drawn mostly hostile reactions whilst playing in other parts of the UK.' The conversation led to one of the band's very few performances in Wales, at punk venue The Stowaway Club in Newport in 1976. It was there they invited Robert to hang out backstage with them - and his excitement was clear as he recalled the memory on Antiques Roadshow. 'They were unlike anything I'd seen or heard before and the rubber-style pink T-shirt I wore to that Pistols concert was among the ones I took along to the Roadshow', he said. 'It's still in good nick too, although it would never fit me now. Actually, looking at how small all the shirts are, it's a wonder I was ever able to squeeze into any of them.' The guest explained many of these rare, original Westwood clothes have become highly sought after by music and fashion lovers alike in recent years. He was delighted his T-shirt collection would go under the hammer for a total of around £20,000: 'That's mad, isn't it?' But that was not what mattered to him most: 'That said, I don't really want to sell them – I'd much rather they went on display in a gallery somewhere, as long as they were all safe and properly insured. 'It'd be lovely to think of them getting a second lease of life and others getting the same enjoyment out of looking at them as I had wearing them.' It comes after another guest was just as pleased by the price their precious item was valued at. A repeat episode of the BBC show, which sees specialist appraisers value heirlooms and heritage items, went to Belton House near the town of Grantham, Lincolnshire. Expert Hilary Kay met with a woman who had brought in a unique item - the funeral standard of 17th-century English statesman Oliver Cromwell. He led parliamentary forces in the English Civil Wars in the mid-1600s against King Charles I, helping to overthrow him before his execution in 1649. The soldier and politician then led the Commonwealth of England that was quickly established, serving as Lord Protector from 1653 until his death in 1658. The woman explained how such an incredible object came into her possession: 'It was in a collection about seven years ago. My father actually bought the collection of militaria.' After some more conversation about how precious the item is, anticipation was well and truly built up and the valuation could not come sooner. It did not disappoint, as Hilary said: 'This is about the trickiest thing I've ever had to value. 'It is certain to fetch £25,000 but how much more would it go for?' The wide-eyed guest was rendered absolutely speechless, with Hilary saying: 'It's going to take me a little while to come down from this. 'It'll take a couple of bars of chocolate and a cup of tea but this has been a really special moment with a really extraordinary object, don't you agree?' Antiques Roadshow is available to watch on BBC One and to stream on BBC iPlayer.
