The fashion industry isn’t known for having taboos. In fact, it’s accused of the exact opposite and is probably second only ‘the media’ when it comes to receiving the blame for anything that goes wrong in society. What follows offers up little fashion, but highlights that words serve as taboos in fashion where The last time slogan t-shirts truly caught our eye was 2007, the…

View all the catwalk photos of the Ruffian autumn (fall) / winter 2012 showing at New York fashion week. Read the article to see the full gallery.

Were it not for the punchline at the end that finally furnishes this video with some semblance of a point (the punchline being “Go-go to the new Vogue.fr”) you’d wonder what relevance Wham! could possibly have to a relaunch of the Vogue Paris website. But there it is, a video of Emmanuelle Alt miming to Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go. Telling you to Go-Go…

Like your fashion young? Then Friend of Mine have something for you. Something ripped. Something revealing. Something that would have made you mother’s generation blush, but something that can still take so many of spring 2011‘s trends and offer them up to rafw in a way that can be best described as wham, bam thank you ma’am.

If I were to mention the 70s ‘glam’ soundtrack that backed this catwalk it might leave you with an impression of clothing that sits between glam and sexualised. That is, after all, the most common interpretation of the 70s revival that we’ve encountered since we started our tour of fashion weeks back in January. Yet, showing at Paris fashion week Australian designer Martin Grant avoided…

Billowy, breezy, beautiful. This Acne dove grey knit dress with silk back is so effortlessly pretty, it looks like it belongs on a woodland creature from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. If I bought it (and I’m tempted to) I’d just want to wear it with flower garlands and silver sandals. Discovered at The New Guard.