Lensed just after the Prada showing at Milan Fashion Week a guest makes a speedy exit with the aid of her supercharged heels from the spring/summer 2012 collection.

If you’re the apotheosis of British eccentricity – the veritable King of quirky twists – you can’t just open up any old store. Ask anyone who’s ever wandered into a Paul Smith store in any city of the world, and they’ll tell you: it’s not your average clothing boutique. Each of Smith’s retail spaces is a feat of design as eclectic and creative as the…

In our times we’ve all been to markets. The good ones. The bad ones. And then there are the great ones. Yet defining what precisely makes a market great is no easy task, try as we might. Great markets have that it factor, that cool vibe, that relevancy that even the most vapid of celebrities depend on for their success. Great markets are to good…

If you shun the legal requirement to wear a helmet in favour of a classic bowler, not to mention having a vintage hat box strapped to the front of your bicycle in place of where a basket might be, one could quite adequately guess your profession. Yes, this gent is a hatter. Not all hatters may be mad but they most certainly are stylish, and…

Melbourne’s weekend Tweed Ride couldn’t have asked for more idealistic weather conditions. Except that, well, most people were perspiring a little than they would have liked to in their vintage plus-four suits. But a far merrier option to the previous day’s deluge of rain, Sunday’s event was smiled upon by sunshine and calm winds as the 200 strong participants pedaled their way along the city’s…

It’s such a quaint sounding concept that you’d think it has been around for a century, or at least a few decades. But the young tradition of a ‘tweed run’ has grown, only recently, to become a wildly successful and impassioned one. Last month’s New York Tweed Run, sponsored (very appropriately) by Ralph Lauren Rugby, brought out the knickerbockers, argyle socks, tweed vests and well-groomed…

A ‘first time’ for anything can be daunting. Be it a first bicycle ride, first kiss or a first stage performance. Model Saskia De Brauw lived through this very overwhelming notion as she made her debut before Mario Testino’s lens. Also being this Dutch beauty’s first fashion spread to be featured in British Vogue. Such breakthroughs often go unnoticed amongst the juggling riddle of fast-paced…

If there was a competition of the most fashionable mode of transport, hands down, a bicycle would be a clear winner. It’s an accessory that can be dirty, old, rusted, shiny, oversized, multi-coloured, but still be in style. This summer, we’ve seen everything. From magazine editors riding in heels to models swanning around town and adding fuel to the bicycle-with-a-basket stereotype. But who’s complaining? This…

Now I rarely ride bikes, but when I do, sporting bicycle chic unfortunately fails to make it into my list of priorities. First up, I attempt dodging the traffic, and next, it’s manoeuvring the pedals. If there’s a bell, I’ll usually be distracted by that, and as for a basket – well don’t get me started. I’m the one you’ll see with my maxi hitched…

Two of my favourite trends for summer come together in one perfect photo: bicycle chique and the little lace dress. And what otherwise might be soft edge is rounded off courtesy of the dark contrasts of the Y3 hat and the Acne boots.