Tight, tight and super tight. Aminaka Wilmont went beyond body con and created a whole new level of cling. Yes there was Lycra, yet the cuts were short and tight but no it wasn’t slutty, instead it was beautiful and feminine. In a collection inspired by dancers and industrial spaces, soft colour palettes were set against laser cut pieces and their trademark prints....

The trend for body con dresses keeps evolving season after season. Now that we’re finally close to summer, there is no better way to adorn your glowing beach body than with an apparent second skin dress. We thank the greats who have pioneered this look – Marios Schwab Roland Mouret and Hervé Léger. Just take a look at this royal blue Luca band dress is...

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The sun is finally shining (well, sort of) and it’s time to start thinking about our spring/summer wardrobes. Right? Well to be honest, after all the excitement of Fashion Week, I just can’t help but look towards the colder months of 2009 and dwell over one particular recurring theme from the season’s shows: the ever rising hemline. It appears that ‘short’ was...

The icon that is Hello Kitty has been pictured on everything. Whether it’s a pencil, a birthday card, or a purse, you have probably at some stage owned a piece of the fantastic feline. Well now be prepared to be painting your face Hello Kitty style. Don’t worry this will be make up you actually want. Do you remember Barbie for Mac? All those quirky colours and fab...

Some may say it is the era fashion forgot, a decade of designs that are best left in the past. But clearly designers and the high street weren’t listening and we are now facing a 1980’s style revolution. But what should you expect? How about…body-con dresses and skirts, batwings, double skirted dresses, shoulder pads, high top trainers, rara skirts, jerseys,...

  Herve Leger’s body-con ‘bandage dress’ first hit the scene in the 1980s. In an era known for volume – shoulder pads, MC Hammer pants, big hair, puff ball prom dresses – Leger’s sculpted sheaths that shaped and smoothed the feminine silhouette in all the right places were a breath of fresh air.