P2YL | 64. Five onscreen style statements

For your September reset

How do you feel about Vogue magazine? 

I think I agree with the former editor who said she felt Vogue had morphed into a mere fashion magazine whereas it used to be about style. 

What is true P2YL style?

We’ve wised-up to the fact that fashion tends to serve the retail industry rather than real women. I like the French designer Agnès b’s rejection of ‘fashion’ in favour of ‘simple, easy clothes' with 'good cuts, and good materials.’

But who can deny Vogue’s influential reach?

As the Vogue September issue is the most highly anticipated release in the fashion industry, this September I decided to revisit a fashion-based article I wrote under the name Katharine St John for Running in Heels.

Here’s an updated, mix-and-match of what inspired me then and what inspires me now. Read more...