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Sonya Yoncheva is Releasing a New Album GEORGE: A Musical Tribute to George Sand and Her World

Sonya Yoncheva GEORGE brings 19th-century music and George Sand’s world to life, merging past and present in a passionate tribute to art, love, & creativity.

Iceage

They'd hate me for saying it, but Danish four-piece Iceage are the sexiest thing to happen to punk in forever. The band play loud and fast, with the violent, trance-like body-flinging of frontman Elias Bender Rnnenfelt seeming the all the more vital when backed with the understated stage presence anddeft musicianshipof Johan Surrballe Wieth, Dan Kjr Nielsen and Jakob Tvilling Pless. Iceage's new albumYou're Nothingis a wildly diverse and unexpectedly catchy ride through post-punk, hardcore and experimental noise with strikingly imagistic lyrics that hit like a bullet. In the remarkable new track 'Awake', Elias launches from throbbing riffs into an unsettling deeply-intoned monologue:"The walls began to crack/ They launched the guns at their sons heads."

Much has been made of the supposedly fascist undertones the of the band's work:Wieth has a tattoo of equally controversial80s neofolk bandDeath In June's Whip-Handlogotheinterlocking letters of their ownband symbol form a cultish geometry.At Iceage gigs, collected fans pump their fists atRnnenfelt – as attendees of punk gigs have done at every show since1978.If Iceage's first albumNew Brigadewas their statement of intent in 2-minute throttling blasts, thenYou're Nothingis the sound of the band widening their view and finding just as much fear, hope, and lust. And while theirvision is often unpretty - even sinister - it's far from the F-word.

A lot of the time anger is directed inwards. But onYou're Nothing,for every lyric like"If I could/ leave my body then I would/ Bleed into a lake/Dashing away/ Disappear"there's an optimistic payoff, like in 'Ecstasy', where Rnnenfelt sings of being"adorned in carnal ecstasy… A mere blow of wind could turn me into light."There's an urgent and ever-quickening pulse beneath the bloody knuckles as they self-assuredly articulate their message. Iceage are a band to believe in - you can even buy the pinbadgeto declare it.

DD: Your new album's calledYou're Nothing. Who's that sentiment directed at?

Elias Bender Rnnenfelt: Both the way you see other people sometimes, but also how things can feel like nothing in a certain light. It's written from a personal point of view. It's not pointed at a specific person, it's more of an emotion.

DD: My favourite track on the album is 'Morals'. The use of piano is new for the band.

Elias Bender Rnnenfelt: I don't know how conscious it was. There's not really any boundaries when you write, and sometimes it goes in unexpected places. That song is inspired by an old Italian singer called Mina. I can't remember how I found out about her, but I was listening to a lot of old Italian music, and I found a song of hers, and 'Morals' is kind of based on the piano that song.I think she might be singing "someone like you", which is a lyric in the song.

DD: Do you think there's a lack of morals in society, or in people you observe?

Elias Bender Rnnenfelt: Yeah, just in surroundings. It's not necessarily written from a political view, but more of human view. It's more about self-respect, when people are insincere and stuff like that. I write most of the lyrics but we all contribute.

DD: I love the monologue in 'Awake' -"The fire broke out, we were running the night" -and then there's the sound of glass breaking.

Elias Bender Rnnenfelt: It's partly about society, but also that lyric is also very much about imagery. Those lyrics are quite theatrical. We were trying rock opera. [laughs] I guess it's our 'Bohemian Rapsody'.

DD: Is it tongue-in-cheek?

Elias Bender Rnnenfelt: No.

Dan Kjr Nielsen: I guess the lyrics are a bit about the walls of society, however that may sound.

Elias Bender Rnnenfelt: Just the boundaries and stuff. Not actual walls. The state, and institutions in general.

Dan Kjr Nielsen: If we need to smash a glass to have a revolution…? It's a big question to answer. We're not really a political band.

DD: I read that you refer to your fans as victims. How come?

Elias Bender Rnnenfelt: That's a thing that keeps getting misinterpreted again and again. We get asked about it a lot, but people don't really seem to get it. On a blog ages ago, there was a friend of ours who got pushed into a pit, and got seven stitches or something, and he had a picture there that said "Victim". It's not anything that we thought that much about. Obviously we don't see our fans as victims.

DD: Do you feel differently about this new album to your first,New Brigade(2011)?

Dan Kjr Nielsen: Yeah. I think there's more going on. We've tried to do more things, and not to be restricting ourselves.

Elias Bender Rnnenfelt: I think it's much better.

DD: Is it true that you took your name from the Warsaw song 'Living In The Ice Age'?

Dan Kjr Nielsen: No. We were brainstorming words.

Elias Bender Rnnenfelt: It sounded like a band name. We thought it was kind of stupid to call ourselves Ice Age, 'cause we don't wanna be associated with the Ice Age! So we spelled it in one word.

DD: Elias, your presence onstage seems quite trance-like. Does it feel that way to you?

Elias Bender Rnnenfelt: Sometimes. If it's a good show, I guess I sometimes forget about what I'm doing.

DD: There was a lot of body contact too, it seemed like an intimate experience

Dan Kjr Nielsen: We're working together. We have a brotherly relationship.

Elias Bender Rnnenfelt: We've known each other for a really long time. I started hanging out with these guys since I was 11 or 12 or something. We just grew up in the same neighbourhood.

Dan Kjr Nielsen: Johan was in my class since we were six years old.

DD: What were you listening to at six years old?

Dan Kjr Nielsen: Kids' music. Michael Jackson. Me and my mother shared a Spice Girls CD, but I would only listen to it when she put it on.

Elias Bender Rnnenfelt: I don't think I cared that much for music back then.

Dan Kjr Nielsen: My father taught me to like KISS, but I mostly just looked at them.

DD: Well, KISS put on a great show. Is it important to you to put on a great live experience?

Dan Kjr Nielsen: Well, if itisa great live experience! Sometimes it is pretty shit. We're not a band you can rely on. Sometimes everything falls apart and it's nothing, and sometimes it's like we're the greatest band in the world.

DD: Who's your dream band to play with.

Elias Bender Rnnenfelt: Ah, we like to play with our friends.

Dan Kjr Nielsen: (deadpans) KISS!

Elias Bender Rnnenfelt: We decided one time to do support shows for Fucked Up, but we weren't really into it. We'd rather do our own thing and maybe play for less people, but at least we're playing forourpeople.

DD: Elias, what your influences in terms of literature?

Elias Bender Rnnenfelt: I like writers like George Bataille, The Story of the Eye. There are a couple of references to that in our lyrics. I think I was reading it around these guys - we all took turns to read it.

Dan Kjr Nielsen: (grins) It's a pretty dirty book.

Elias Bender Rnnenfelt: Yukio Mishima, and Jean Genet is awesome. I've read The Thief's Journal and now I'm reading The Miracle of the Rose.

Best Fashion Moments 2011

The Best Fashion Moments in 2011

From super stylish parties in Cannes to ultra-sexy Victoria's Secret models, FashionTV remembers the greatest fashion moments of 2011.

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This year, FashionTV highlights the style moments that took our breath away and transformed beauties, visions, and inspirations into works of art.

Who can forget Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio, and the other sexy girls of Victoria's Secret as they sashayed down the runway for the 2011 fashion show in stunning superhero costumes and sequined disco numbers?

What about Sarah Burton's rise to the top at Alexander McQueen when FashionTV and the rest of the world learned she designed Prince William's bride Kate Middleton's wedding dress? Just a day later, she was being honored as part of the McQueen label by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala!

Fashion shows like Marc Jacobs and Anna Sui in New York, Burberry and Vivienne Westwood in London, Dsquared2 and Roberto Cavalli in Milan, and Prada and Balmain in Paris left us clamoring for Fall 2011 and Spring 2012 trends and not just because their front rows were packed withcelebrityandfashion heavyweights.

Which Fashion Week was your favorite?

The dapper duds of Mad Men met high-fashion on the Jean Paul Gaultier Fall 2011 runway at Paris Fashion Week, where pussy bow blouses, pinstripes, and gloves took center stage in the return of 50s sophisticate trends. Hats, gloves, and retro prints were also imitated in major boutiques.

For haute couture, Elie Saab reigned supreme with his clever composition of beautiful embroidered bodices and frothy feminine gowns. Gucci's Milan Fall 2011 collection was so popular it was seen on Tokyo model Ai Tominaga and actress Jennifer Lopez.

With statement-making style like Sports Illustrated model Kate Upton in a

Beach Bunny wedding bikini

and pearls, FashionTV caught sexy swimwear and beautiful beachwear in Miami, Milan, Rio de Janeiro, and Sao Paulo. In Rio and Sao Paulo, models like Isabeli Fontana, Aline Weber, and Caroline Francischini took center stage in vibrant colors and geometric prints.

FashionTV partied around the world with the best of them, hitting up bashes like the Flavio Briatore's Billionaire Club during Formula 1 Grand Prix in Monte Carlo and store openings like the Jean Paul Gaultier concept shop in Ginza, Tokyo, where the designer dressed up as an astronaut. At the celebrity soiree from De Grisogono during the Cannes Film Festival, guests like Bianca Balti, will.i.am from The Black Eyed Peas, and Carine Roitfeld made appearances, and FashionTV had the exclusive!

Campari or Pirelli: Which 2012 calendar is hotter?

FashionTV also featured the best fashion photographs with an inside look at major photoshoots like the sexy 13th edition of the Campari Calendar with Milla Jovovich featuring Milla in many sexy costumes and an “end of the world” theme and a behind-the-scenes peek at the making of the 2012 Pirelli Calendar with models like Joan Smalls, Lara Stone, and Kate Moss posing nude for fashion photographer Mario Sorrenti. Photographer Giuliano Bekor stunned with his photos of model Jessica Perez wearing leopard print for Shape magazine's June 2011 issue.

One of the biggest trends for 2011 was the intertwining of fashion and music. FashionTV honed in on this milieu right away, as models mixed with music stars and celebrities at major events. Duran Duran showcased the top supermodels of the 90s in their Girl Panic video with Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, and Helena Christensen making highly anticipated appearances. The super sultry Etam lingerie show featured models like Monika “Jac” Jagaciak, and Karolina Kurkova, but also Karen Elson, DJ Mark Ronson, Boy George, The Kills, Beth Ditto, and more. The Victoria's Secret fashion show had models Adriana Lima and Chanel Iman swaying their hips alongside musical acts like Nicki Minaj, Kanye West, Jay-Z, and Maroon 5. The

Versace for H&M fashion show

with models like Natasha Poly and Lindsey Wixson featured guests Nicki Minaj and Prince in the audience, who later riled up the crowd with rapturous performances at the Versace for H&M after party.

For fashion, 2011 was full of memorable moments that will last a lifetime. FashionTV wants to relive those moments with you this month!

What’s your favorite fashion moment of 2011?

Elephant & Castle’s culture shop

Initiated by theLouis Vuitton Young Arts Project,Culture Shop: January Saleis a south London art group's calledArt Assassins’ most recent venture - an off-site live exhibition by bunch of 14-20-year-olds offering responses to the idea that ‘culture makes you who you are.’Installed – aptly – in a disused Poundland unit inElephant and Castle Shopping Centrethis space s far from your stereotypical white cube. Exchange is rife in the middle of the place once voted London's ugliest structure, but not of the materialist kind, as a plethora of audio and video works confront conventional cultural perceptions of profession, class, nationality and race.

True to their name, the Art Assassins are not taking the war on youth lying down. Back in Autumn 2011 they created a stimulating youth led publication in collaboration withHato Pressin response to the London riots -Voice of the Voicelessproving engagement and openness vital to the Art Assassins’ philosophy. Working with high profile collaborators no doubt enhances their message’s impact, the Young Art’s Project’s Summer Academy engaging in a public sculpture workshop with the well known Scandinavian duo Elmgreen & Dragset last August. As a three year partnership between five of London’s leading art institutions – Hayward Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, South London Gallery, Tate Britain and the Whitechapel – the Louis Vuitton Young Arts Project exposes the Art Assassins to an snazzy series of cultural programmes – keeping them busy alongside their regular SLG Thursday evening meetings, college and school commitments.

Ryan Valentine’s videoGamerand George Flanagan’sWe Don’t Get Lawyers ‘Round Here, are two of many works that illustrate the assassination of the commercialist dictum ‘nothing in this world is free’ through their poignantly open creative exchange. Voicing his cultural curiosities, 13-year old South London Gallery forum member George talks to Rose Commander -a paralegal at Goldman and Bailey Solicitors- about how ‘people from where I live aren’t lawyers’. Gemma Andrews’s live experimentElephant Toothpastedemonstrates how her cultural diversity is bubbling over (literally) in a confluence of art and science. Turkish Art Assassin Mehmet Ccel performs his passionate intro to professional wrestling inFront Bump/Back Bump,where in-between body crunching moves he demonstrates the importance of ‘bumping’ -the safety measure used in professional wrestling that determines learning how to fall without causing injury to yourself or others.

Fashion Roundup: Lady Gaga answers her critics and Sarah Jessica Parker the new editor of Vogue.com?

Victoria’s Secret Angel Candice Swanepoel suffers from a tragic Photoshop fail, featuring uneven boobs in a bra advertising campaign. The photo was meant to be used for the “Ad 2 Cups Multi-Way Bra” campaign, but generally people expect bras to do their magic on the entire chest and not just one side. (Refinery 29)

Kate Moss & George Michael will appear on the cover of Vogue Paris. The October issue will feature the two together, mimicking a red carpet shot, with Kate wearing a gorgeous Elie Saab red gown. Both Michael and Kate appeared in the closing ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics, and Moss has guest-starred in Michael’s new music video this summer. (Huffington Post)

Sarah Jessica Parker the new editor of Vogue.com? Not exactly--but she plays the part well in a Glee debut which has been released. According to reports, Anna Wintour worked closely on the wardrobe for the character, which will once again surely mark Parker as a world-famed fashionista. (Vogue UK)

Oscar Wilde once said, “No man is rich enough to buy back his past.” This is especially true for Victoria Beckham, a celebrity who sees her future at a totally different place than that of her past. Cheesy teen modeling shots have been revealed of the former Spice Girl star. (Styleite)

Lady Gaga answers her critics for putting on weight by starting a ‘Body Revolution’. The mega pop star has recently been faced with a public attack for her weight, which by looking at the new pictures is clearly not the case. Gaga posted on her site, Little Monsters, a revealing lingerie photoshoot of herself calling to inspire bravery. (Fashionista)

Closing our list of weekly highlights, take a look at this great new video from Nowness.com, featuring Chanel Iman pole dancing! A great short fashion video by husband-and-wife photographers Dusan Reljin and Hilde Pettersen Reljin.

Zines unite!

Protests, talk of boycotting, and local shop windows declaring ‘No More Chain Stores.’ All this over a mini Sainsbury’s on Lewisham way. If you’re unfamiliar with New Cross there are two things you should know; the residents hate chain stores, and they like to get shit done. It was the ideal location for comic book-maker Dimitri Pieri to hold last Sunday’s South East London zine fest. Know for supporting the local arts community, the dimly lit Amersham Arms was chosen to house the event, and saw the entire bottom floor crammed with DIY enthusiasts keen to show off their stick and paste and photocopied and printed creations. Including Oregon-based feminist Alex Wrekk of Stolen Sharpie Revolution (a respected guide to zine making and zine culture) as well as plenty of UK self-publishers.

Peter Willis, an illustration graduate from the nearby Camberwell College of Arts and zine distributor, told Dazed Digital “I started making zines when I was about 12-13 because my sister wrote for fanzines and getting into punk introduced me to a lot of DIY ideas, opening up a world of kids in bedrooms writing down their ideas and trading them with people from all over the place.” He edits a journal called Limner, a stapled illustration zine exploring the art form from a more considered perspective. Amongst contemporary black and white drawings you’ll find critical essays on the teaching of illustration as well as its role in digital media. Willis says it’s the community aspect of zine making that really draws people in, and points us toMichael Crowe. Crowe is the author of the 40 page thick Mid-Midnight. Willis says it's full of “brilliant short stories that are unobtrusively clever, and often hilarious, and leave you with that satisfied smile when you read them.” We haven’t had a chance to read it yet, so you’ll have to find out for yourself. Crowe is also behind ‘Christmas Diaries,’ a collection of Xmas day entries from famous diarists, including Andy Warhol and George Orwell. A highlight: Samuel Pepys, who, on the 25th of Dec 1664, punches his wife, and doesn’t get why she’s miffed for the rest of the day.

From the 17th century and on to a zine about obscure punk bands and comic strips of oozing brains from Russell Taysom and Charlie Mellors.Flabby Dagger’s most recent edition contains cartoons such as ‘Teenage Mutant Chicken Nuggets,’ a gory homage to the fact that, apparently, The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were, actually, quite twisted back in the early 80s. The chicken nuggets bit? “There are a lot of chicken shops in London.” Hey there, New Cross! While ‘Piano From Hell’ documents an exchange between Charlie and a bespoke luxury piano company, in which he sends them a sketch for a piano shaped like a giant penis. There’s also a sketch called ‘Keep Your Pants On.’ “Flabby Dagger is a name Charlie had for a band he and I were going toform. After a few practices we realised we hated each other’s songsso we started the zine instead. It means limp penis,” explains Taysom. “It's not that bad though - I bought a zine made by girls called Knob Vomit once.”

Are British men ready to wear prints?

Prints for men, by D&G, Prada and Burberry Prorsum

Prints for men, by D&G, Prada and Burberry Prorsum.

Gather round, men: your plain shirts and discreet dark jeans are looking a trifle tired. This season, it's all about print. From Hawaiian shirts to floral Dr Martens, patterns are on everything. Not since the 1980s – when it was all about the Manchester indie-rave scene and Versace's baroque designs – has print in menswear made fashion headlines.

Cut to now and Prada is selling floral trousers that riff on golfing slacks and printed shirts that whiff of 1950s Americana. Topman's retro paisley-print catwalk pyjamas sold out in February. Clumpy Dr Marten boots have been given a floral print remix for Liberty. Burberry is backing tribal print trousers, GQ has included these in its patterned trousers spread this month while Zara is selling Aztec-inspired backpacks. To say that print is enjoying a comeback is an understatement.

As the rain pelted down Tuesday, Marks & Spencer reported that men are buying rather a lot of lemon-yellow and rose-pink chinos, and perhaps even more surprisingly, Hawaiian shirts. Tony O'Connor, head of menswear design at M&S, says that "Hawaiian and vintage-looking prints, even in this adverse weather, have gone off really well", helped no doubt by George Clooney pulling off a decent Hawaiian shirt look in The Descendants. (OK, he was in Hawaii at the time, but the point remains.) "Guys are buying into colour now," says O'Connor, "so print is the next logical step."

Gareth Scourfield, fashion editor at Esquire, thinks we're all going to be shocked at how enthusiastically men embrace print. "When the block colour look started to come in, I remember wondering if men would get it. But from a designer level right through to the high street, everybody started to do well with bold colour jeans and chinos." Scourfield thinks that menswear has been mostly pared-back since the 90s, so perhaps it's time for men to have "more fun with fashion".

Topman's flagship Oxford Circus store is rammed with a dizzying array of prints, from Aztec- to African-inspired designs, floral to 50s kitsch. "For the British male, wearing print still requires quite a lot of confidence," says Gordon Richardson, Topman's design director. "It works on holiday, on the beach. But in dull British weather, prints are more difficult."

Versace Baroque designs … Versace. Photograph: Versace

The weather doesn't seem to be worrying the buyers, though. Asos will offer 60 styles of printed shirt this season and next month rolls out 60,000 printed products. "I've never seen this much print in menswear before," says John Mooney, the company's head of menswear design. He reports that the look is a particular hit with the 18-to-mid-20s demographic. "These guys are confident and cocksure, and there's a massive trend for standing out from the crowd and impressing your peers."

So why now? "I think we were definitely in danger of menswear becoming a little bit dull," says Topman's Richardson. "We went through this period of smartening up, of heritage-inspired clothing. Then colour infiltrated chinos. So to look individual, you almost had to try to explore print in some way." Now it covers a range of Topman products from caps, bracelets and wallets to T-shirts, shirts, bags, belts, vests and knits.

River Island's menswear design manager Elizabeth Taylor thinks the look has its origins in the success of last season's patterned knits, such as ironic Christmas jumpers and busy Fair Isle styles. "Men are getting used to bolder designs," she says.

In London, there is also emerging momentum for printed men's fashion from both established fashion week designers, such as Jonathan Saunders and Christopher Kane, and up-and-coming names such as Agi & Sam and Kit Neale. For Agi & Sam, whose buzz catwalk collection for autumn/winter featured rooster and duck prints, print "gives your brand an immediate identity, and originality. It also feels like you have created everything."

Neale, whose work also caught the eye during London fashion week, based his autumn/winter collection around his dad's allotment. Cue jolly vegetable and insect prints on T-shirts, bomber jackets and jeans. Among his friends, he says, there is an enthusiasm for both 1980s Moschino and vintage Versace, both known as loud statement labels. "The current preppy look has dominated men's fashion for too long," he says. Last year's collaboration between H&M and Versace welcomed a new and enthusiastic audience to the brand's archive. Donatella then put classic Gianni-era Versace prints back at the heart of the label during the spring/summer men's show, including patterned trousers, a look also shown by Paul Smith and Burberry.

This element of the print comeback, though, is perhaps a harder sell. "I think the look will be a slow burn and probably take a season or two to filter down," admits Robert Johnston, associate editor of GQ. "I suspect the Burberry-esque batik prints will be the first to become popular. And it will be a long time before most men will feel brave enough to wear Prada florals."

But with the backing of the high street, it seems that print is a look with legs – even if those legs aren't likely to be covered in floral patterns any time soon.

"There are so many ways to do print," says Dan May, style director at Mr Porter. "It covers the most adventurous guys. Or you can just pop in a print scarf or a tie so you address the trend but in a minimalist way. That's really the beauty of print, you can hit it as hard as you like."

The week in men’s fashion

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Putting a vest amongst the MPs
Oh Russell, with your jokes to the Commons home affairs select committee and your rock 'n' roll cowboy fashions. This week, Mr Brand might have been in the headlines for providing his thoughts on Britain's drug policy to MPs, but, really, wasn't everyone just thinking '"what was he wearing?'" If you missed it, the full look was as follows: hat, sunglasses, a collarless leather coat, some kind of tapestry-style belt, ripped acid washed black jeans and slouchy boots. No real surprises here, as Brand has long championed the skinny-fit, dishevelled look popular on the high-street for aeons. But the shocking thing about this ensemble was when he took his coat off, and was sat, in a formal setting, wearing a vest. Vest sleeves - that's quite a look. For those who prefer men dressed up all neat and in suits, it wasn't exactly a persuasive argument for dress down Friday. However in dressing to the beat of his own drum, Brand came across as totally authentic, a message that a bland suit and a boring tie rarely manages to convey. Discuss.

Shoes! Shoes! Shoes!
Selfridges announced this very morning that they are going to launch the biggest men's shoe department ever. Coming this November, the department store is creating a 10,000 square foot space that will house 250 brands and stock around 72,000 pairs of shoes at any one time. Plus, while you're trying on new ones, your old shoes will be whisked away and polished. Not sure what happens to trainers but when we know we'll get back to you...

ASOS Autumn/Winter 2012 key trends ASOS Autumn/Winter 2012 key trends Photograph: ASOS

Next season is gonna get busy
Yesterday Topman showcased their autumn/winter 2012 collections with lashings of print (peacock, paisley, Aztec) on shirts, suit jackets and leggings alongside colour blocked jackets, posh tailoring and fuzzy mohair knits. In comparison to the moody Topman Design collection, this was positively hectic, taking in the themes of South America, 90s Brighton alternative, 70s London and George Best. This fancy for the bold is also one of the key messages that online retailer ASOS are pushing at men for next season too. Last week during their preview at Somerset House, racks were bursting with Aztec fleece jackets, coloured cords, loud patterned knitwear and bright padded coats. The future's bright etc.

Jigsaw keyhole sweater Jigsaw keyhole sweater Photograph: Jigsaw

A new neckline to obsess over
Lucian Freud and Tim Roth were both on design director for Jigsaw menswear Frances Walker's autumn/winter moodboard. Having relaunched the menswear arm of the business last month, including a standalone store in Spitafields, Walker's vision is thoroughly handsome. These clothes are well made and seem to me to be designed to get better with age. They're grown up but not boring – there's spicy tomato coats, mustard moleskin, tartan suits and a boozy claret duffle. But there are also boring but useful wardrobe staples, such as an 89 basic shirt, which has a lovely handle and something of the Margaret Howells about it. Admittedly, it's at the more expensive end of the high-street - coats are from 200ish to 450 - but the clothes have a longevity about them, matched by well-sourced fabric. I'll be buying this camel fisherman rib jumper with it's "keyhole" neckline – I do love an interesting knit-neckline. See also: next season Alexander Wang.

What I've bought this week
No, not an umbrella. What's the point, you only lose them. Instead the wardrobe is to be suitably tarted up by this marvellous Christopher Shannon collage print sweatshirt.

Collaboration of the week
It's an installation and month long shopping love-off between London's sparky designer emporium b-store and York's premium independent boutique Coggles. It launches today and is as good a reason as any to shout whoop at passerbys.

Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future Nice dunks, McFly Photograph: Back to the Future

Retro film fashion moment of the week
Michael J Fox's hair in the Back to the Future series was truly a thing of beauty, particularly coming into its own, volume wise, in part II. Hair aside, let's take a moment to cherish the fashions of the film. Not only is there Marty's resizing jacketa bit Balenciaga - and hi-top Nikes that lace themselves (everyone is wearing Nike trainers these days). But there's also Doc Brown's retro repeat pattern print shirt (a bit this season Prada) and visor (a bit next season McQueen). I'm also certain I saw a peplum...

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