'What I've Learned From A Quarter Century Of Dressing For Fashion Month' LadyLowthorpe
Grazia's outgoing Fashion Director, Rebecca Lowthorpe, discusses the hierarchies, the pressures and the joys of attending the showsTwenty-five Septembers ago was the first time I had to dress for a season of fashion shows. I was a junior reporter on a fashion trade magazine with no idea about anything except that it would help if I looked the part. So I asked a friend to cut my hair into a drastic pixie crop and packed everything in my wardrobe that was black.
Back in the day, I opted into every enticing trend going, from Tom Ford’s Gucci raunch to Calvin Klein’s minimalism. I was a Chloé milkmaid in flounced white cotton one day and a Martin Margiela fashion intellectual in a deconstructed brown wool sack the next. But it wasn’t just the designers who informed my early trend-obsessed looks.
I have clothes for camouflage – in my case, three Chanel jackets that, if worn with a sharp-toed heel, reek of authority. I have clothes for courage – never do I feel more self-assured than in a pair of slouchy trousers, oversized blazer and a cashmere sweater from the Phoebe Philo Céline archive I’ve invested in so heavily over the years. I have clothes my boyfriend approves of – any item that is fitted, any shoe that is not clumpy.
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