Fashion Unzipped podcast: A very 2018 guide to beach style - and our summer-reading picks
When it’s this hot, it’s hard not to wish you were on the beach. But what does the beach holiday of 2018 look like compared to 2017 and years past?
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Later today we'll talk through this summer's beach etiquette. But first, join us for more on...
Put the character in the campaign
Dame Joan Collins and Zandra Rhodes star in the new Kurt Geiger campaign, built around the ideas of individuality and play in fashion. Meanwhile, Faye Dunaway is in the new Gucci campaign. Have the days of anonymous, underage models shilling luxury fashion finally passed?
"When this started with Joni Mitchell and Joan Didion [in 2015], it felt a slight fetishisation of older women.... and then it flipped back to very young models," Victoria says. "If it's going to land up somewhere in the middle, using everyone, so it's not extremes, that's what feels quite good about this."
Read the full story about the new Kurt Geiger campaign here
Has the palace fashion pushback begun?
Meghan Markle: best looks
Prince Harry reportedly nixed Meghan’s plans to wear a tuxedo-style suit to an event during the couple’s official visit to Australia for the Invictus Games later this year. Apparently Meghan wanted to wear a Stella McCartney evening tux for an event, but Harry said no.
"When we heard that he likes to offer fashion input, I always assumed that it was more like, 'You look pretty,' and 'Why don't you try that in pink?', 'Mmkay honey.' Not telling her, 'Thou shalt not wear trousers.' That seems a bit over the line," Emily says.
Bethan adds, "Visuals are very important to the royals. If you have a picture of Harry and Meghan and they're both basically wearing black suits, it doesn't maybe look quite so arresting as if one of you is in a suit and one is in a lovely, flowery dress. It lacks the princess factor."
How to style out your summer holiday the 2018 way
Last week we talked about the misery and the mastery of packing for a summer holiday. Today we’re pretending that we’ve made it into the taxi, through the airport and to the sun lounger on the other side.
Our main story from the Wednesday fashion pages is a beach etiquette guide, telling you everything you need to know about pool floats, tile-floor pics and topless sunbathing. "There's a lot of things now, with Instagram, that throw up issues when one is on holiday," Victoria says. "You've got to try a bit harder."
To this we're adding our own summer-reading recommendations -- consider it the first instalment of the Fashion Unzipped book club. Emily and Bethan are counting down the days to the release of Transcription by Kate Atkinson and Sally Rooney's Normal People, both out in September. Victoria is reading Tina Brown's The Vanity Fair Diaries,Joan Juliet Buck's The Price of Illusion and Madeline Miller's Circe, while Charlie has her eye on Vita and Virginia by Sarah Gristwood.
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