Off-the-shoulder tops and a signature hair-do: Brigitte Bardot’s style legacy

28 décembre 2025 à 16:46

Model turned actor never lost the poise from her dancing days – but she also made gingham and leopard print her own

And God Created Woman, the title of the 1956 film that made Brigitte Bardot a global star, is the phrase that captures the magic of her. Bardot had an allure that was dazzling in its glamour, yet so natural that to gaze on it felt like a gift from the heavens.

In style, as in life, timing is everything – and Bardot became the poster girl for that sweet spot of postwar France in which the storied heritage of Gallic culture was electrified by the Bohemian spirit of Paris in the 1950s and 60s.

Dressing the part: the TV characters who nailed small-screen style this year

The Guardian

Par :Jess Cartner-Morley · Jason Okundaye · Gwilym Mumford · Lauren Cochrane · Chloe Mac Donnell · Sundus Abdi · Morwenna Ferrier · Hannah Jane Parkinson and Ellie Violet Bramley

27 décembre 2025 à 09:00

From Jackson Lamb’s mac in Slow Horses to the queen-bee wardrobe of Wild Cherry, Guardian writers choose the outfits that shaped storylines and revealed personalities in 2025

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Never mind the catwalk shows, the viral glossy advertising campaigns and the endless red carpets. This year, TV was where the best fashion was at. Here, nine Guardian writers pick their favourite looks from the shows that had us hooked over the past 12 months.

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Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: when it comes to lace, it’s all about the trimmings

The Guardian

Par :Jess Cartner-Morley

24 décembre 2025 à 15:00

Head-to-toe can be too much, but a lace trim on a skirt, a camisole under a blazer, lace tights? Now you’re talking

Sometimes a little goes a long way. This is true for Tabasco on eggs, for fragrance in an elevator, for confidence in the karaoke booth, and it is also, I have belatedly realised, the secret of how to wear lace.

All these years, I’ve been getting lace wrong by wearing too much of it. Killing it with overenthusiasm. Lace is beautiful stuff: delicate and romantic. Look closely at it and you will see tiny motifs and patterns, flowers and symbols, crafted in miniature like secret messages. Lace has drama: it is the fabric of marriages, funerals and christenings, after all. And it can switch vibes: white is chaste, red is raunchy, black is sophisticated. Lace has it all going on.

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