The Irish Times style index

A style guide to what's hot and what's not

A style guide to what's hot and what's not

Style hots

John GallianoHis new collection is so madly 1922 that Vogue said it could only be set in an Anglo-Irish big house.

1960s-styleA-line mini-dresses Like Sienna Miller's Edie Sedgwick in Factory Girl.

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Sleek long hairLike Gwyneth Paltrow's and Beyonce's. Messy hair extensions are over.

The aristo lookThink Lacroix's feather-, fur- and gold-trimmed and embroidered coat dresses inspired by Velázquez.

Michel Gondry's Levi's adsEspecially the drugstore one on the web. But they still don't make us want to buy the jeans.

Style colds

Going commandoWe're sick of trashionistas flashing as they get in and out of cars.

Shoulder padsOn the way back with a vengeance, especially in hard leather and metallic, masculine finishes.

Fur coats the size of 4x4sOn the catwalks with barely a protest from fashionistas. We prefer Stella McCartney's ingenious fakes.

Marc Jacobs's spring-summer handbags for Louis VuittonBizarre, hideous and multicoloured. Think handbags on LSD.

Balloon sleeves and bell sleeves on floppy tunics worn with skinny trousersDidn't work in the 1980s, doesn't work now.

Kate Holmquist

Kate Holmquist

The late Kate Holmquist was an Irish Times journalist