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Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: spring has sprung, so put away your coat and banish the black tights | Fashion

Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: spring has sprung, so put away your coat and banish the black tights | Fashion

Published by Sam Flores

It all came to a head, as matters of getting dressed so often do, over black tights. I had wanted to wear my silver skirt, you see. It was a rare blue-sky day and the sunshine was making me crave reflective surfaces to maximise the light. Anyway, you know how it is when you just get a yen to wear something. So I pulled out said silver skirt and then realised I didn’t want to wear the black opaque tights I wear with it in winter, but it wasn’t anywhere near warm enough to wear it with bare legs as I do in summer. I was completely stumped. And it made me realise: I need a refresher course in what to wear at this time of year. Spring has sprung, but I have forgotten how to hop to it. double quotation mark A small-plates version of outdoor dressing feels right for now, because it is less stodgy than a coat So here we have it: your pocket primer on how to dress for spring. I’m talking about …

Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: primary colours are back, but styling them isn’t child’s play | Fashion

Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: primary colours are back, but styling them isn’t child’s play | Fashion

Published by Sam Flores

You would think primary shades would be the easiest colours to wear. Red, yellow, blue: we can name these before we can tie our shoelaces. They are not sophisticated colours, such as Armani greige or Pantone favourite Mocha Mousse. They are not challenging-to-wear colours, like chartreuse or mustard. They are Mr Men colours. So wearing them must be child’s play, surely. The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. And yet they are weirdly tricky to wear. They can feel shouty and basic: the getting dressed equivalent of speaking loudly without saying anything particularly interesting, which is – to paint it in primary colours – not what any of us are aiming for. Muted colours have dominated fashion for a decade. Navy, grey, black and denim have been the backbone, with highlights of butter, olive green and soft pink the shade of a freshly plastered wall. But over the past year, uncomplicated shades have made a return to the catwalk. At fashion week, I had got …

Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: the quarter-zip is the breakout star of 2026 – and I think I know why | Fashion

Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: the quarter-zip is the breakout star of 2026 – and I think I know why | Fashion

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My favourite kind of fashion moment is not a Met Gala headline-maker or a Paris catwalk extravaganza. Nope. My favourite fashion moment is when one piece of clothing is suddenly everywhere for no obvious reason, which is what is happening right now with the quarter-zip sweater. The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. The jumper with a chin-to-breastbone zip, which has been around for ever, is the breakout main character of the 2026 wardrobe. At a Chanel catwalk show held in New York recently, a quarter-zip knit was the star of the show, worn with a fancy cocktail-hour skirt and diamond drop earrings. Charli xcx teamed a Saint Laurent one with sunglasses and shorts on her last trip to Paris fashion week. Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta wears stealth-wealth dark merino ones in the dugout, rapper Central Cee wears a cream Ralph Lauren one on TikTok – and the man opposite you on the train right now, taking a Zoom call on his AirPods …

Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: brighten the winter gloom with accessories that add personality | Women

Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: brighten the winter gloom with accessories that add personality | Women

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My very first girlcrush is still my ultimate winter style icon. Miss Bianca, star of the 1977 film The Rescuers, is Disney’s most underrated princess. As the Hungarian delegate to the Rescue Aid Society, an international humanitarian organisation run by mice with a secret headquarters in the walls of the UN building in New York City, Miss Bianca travels the world rescuing children in peril, and never allows being a mouse to stop her either from feats of bravery – commanding meetings of international delegates, rescuing children from flooded caves – or from rocking a look. She has a nice line in shawl-collar trapeze-line coats (think mid-century Balenciaga), but her real style signature is her glamorous scarves and hats. In a violet pillbox hat with a matching scarf tied in a bow, or dashing shades of mustard, Bianca makes cosy winter dressing look delicious. She might be a mouse, but she is never, ever mousey. The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. A cartoon mouse is an unusual place to begin an …

Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: lift your winter look with a pop of white | Fashion

Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: lift your winter look with a pop of white | Fashion

Published by Sam Flores

Everyone knows that the prettiest scraps of winter are the precious snow days. At this time of year, when it feels like we’ve been scurrying around in near-constant darkness like moles for as long as we can remember, we crave the brightness you get with snowfall – and the glamour of it, too. The disco-ball sparkle of frost is a counterpoint to chapped lips and three-week sniffles that won’t budge. The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. We can’t make it snow, but we can create our own little flurry. A pop of snowy white is the best boost you can give an outfit right now. White is to January what rust and orange are to October: a colour pulled from nature to remind us of the best bits of the season. After all, autumn has grey skies and muddy puddles too, but we ignore them and lean into its gorgeous falling-leaf colours instead. A half moon of bright white at the neckline brightens your look …

Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: Still wearing a cross-body bag and French-tucking your shirt? Sorry to say, your wardrobe is cringe | Fashion

Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: Still wearing a cross-body bag and French-tucking your shirt? Sorry to say, your wardrobe is cringe | Fashion

Published by Sam Flores

Is your wardrobe cringe? Does it make you look out-of-touch and cause younger and cooler people to look upon you with pity? Do you really want me to answer that? Never mind, I’m going to anyway, so buckle up. Brutal honesty is very January, so I will give it to you straight. But before we get down to dissecting your wardrobe, two quick questions for you. Do you put full stops in text messages? Were you baffled by Labubus? If the answer to those two questions is yes, then I’m afraid the signs are that your wardrobe is almost certainly cringe. The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. Being cringe is essentially being old-fashioned, but worse. Being old-fashioned is what happens when you grow older with grace and dignity. Cringe is when you lose your touch while convincing yourself you are still down with the kids. What does a cringe wardrobe look like? French-tucking your shirt, the height of sophistication a decade ago, …

Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: like a superhero cloak, a white shirt gives you formidable power | Fashion

Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: like a superhero cloak, a white shirt gives you formidable power | Fashion

Published by Sam Flores

The eternal appeal of the white shirt is not just that it goes with anything, although it does. And not only that it can take you anywhere, although it can. It is not even that it never goes out of style, or that good quality versions are accessible at real-world prices, although those are true also. The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. A white shirt is self-confidence. It stands for it, and it brings it, and that’s the real secret. It is a superhero cloak that bestows you with this formidable power. Self-confidence is not as snazzy as the ability to fly or live for ever, but arguably it’s more practical. I don’t know why or how it works, but it doesn’t matter, because if you feel confident then you are confident. Faking it and making it are one and the same here. Courage is everything at this time of year, when life can feel a bit daunting. Perhaps your instinct is to hibernate in a hoodie. Hey, I hear you. But …