Laura Weir's Editor's Letter

The editor's letter and Top 5 season buys
Laura Weir14 September 2017

Welcome to our bumper Fashion Edition — 144 pages of pure, decadent, joyous fashion — with lots to love, things to buy and pieces to treasure.

Our cover star is the controversial 21-year-old model Slick Woods; sexually charged, with limitless cheek and confidence, this free spirit is wowing the fashion world with her trademark toothy grin and challenging insouciance. From political slogan T-shirts to punk riot wear, this season has a distinctive anarchic tone and Slick embodies that mood. As always, fashion is a tale of two halves, so you can read about the return of modesty; it’s also time to button up, hemlines are lengthening and a pie-crust collar is all the rage. Also in this issue we launch our first ES Magazine Fashion Power 100. I spent months deliberating over our list of the supremely talented individuals making planet fashion spin. We canvassed the industry, took names off and put them back on again — and the end result is our definitive list of fashion’s most important power players.

The editor’s top five new season buys

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Plus, of course, we’ve decoded this season’s looks so you don’t have to. There are disco shoes, plastic coats, plus mega autumn/winter knits. Ever wondered where Debbie von Bismarck buys her boho earrings? Or Simone Rocha does her weekly shop? Our favourite London fashion folk open their little black books as well. The fabulous Dame Joan Collins takes us on a trip through her Eighties archive and schools us in the politics of power dressing. And, to the future; for the first time our Fashion Edition is shoppable on our @eveningstandardmagazine Instagram Stories just swipe up to buy) and our website, standard.co.uk/esmagazine.

Enjoy!

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