Fashion

When we read the headlines—Love Island Dumps Fast Fashion! Ebay Sponsor Saves Environment!—and buckle in for a series of feel-good clothing underscored by an “eat, sleep, rewear, repeat” mentality, we don’t expect much from it. But two weeks into ITV2’s holiday dating camp, how many repeat wears have we witnessed aside from the criminal espadrille wedges Love Islanders are wedded to, and the Yeezy-style slides even Kanye West struggles to pull off (sorry Luca)? This year’s ITV2 series got off to a promising start. With contestants wearing a mix of their own clothes and pre-loved pieces sourced from Ebay by stylist Amy Bannerman, we witnessed Dami wearing a blue Pleats Please Issey Miyake shirt, Tasha modelling an old-school studded Diesel dress, and Amber sporting a Chanel brooch on her wh...

It's a bold decision to dedicate your entire company to a single product, but for Laura Petrielli-Pulice, it overcompensated tenfold. The founder of Vex Latex has delivered the likes of Kim Kardashian, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, and Bret Easton Ellis with custom latex products. It's been north of twenty years since she made her most memorable pieces while learning at FIT in New York, enlivened by Thierry Mugler's plans. "I absolutely never set out to be a business visionary or maintained my own business, the objective was simply to accomplish something I love," she tells Vogue. "I knew that [latex] could be removed from the fixation world and executed into the design business." Vex has made brilliant science fiction isolates and noisy plastic dresses for Kim - see the bra and tights she wor...