Jane Shepherdson: Last News

Sex and the City effect” will strike again with And Just Like That, the much-anticipated sequel series. Last week, the latest image circulated of Sarah Jessica Parker wearing a pair of dungarees on the set of And Just Like That, sending newspaper fashion columnists into a frenzy.

rus in urbe Lulu Lyttle wicker and gold wallpaper vibe. Designed by Christos Costarellos, who launched his fashion label in 1998 but isn’t well known here, the dress is thought to have been rented by Carrie from mywardrobehq.com, the British rental start up fronted by Jane Shepherdson, the fashion guru who ran Top Shop in its golden years.  It's a website which she has used on several occasions in the past. She may look a wee bit Carrie Antoinette (the Petit Hameau years) but the rental cost of this Costarellos is £45, a sum so unimpeachably frugal it should help offset that wallpaper, and could well provide a huge fillip for bridal rental, and in particular Costarellos.

Topshop was poised to go into administration was a real shock, not because it hadn’t been on a decline for some years now, with cheaper online players giving it stiff competition, but because it seemed so sudden. It is incredibly sad that a brand that was so iconic cannot survive any longer.

I love fashion, but don’t love what it had become before lockdown happened, writes Jane Shepherdson