Fabulous fashionistas - Individual style and attitude!

  "As fashion weeks start to pile up globally, leaving a trail of discarded carbs strewn through capital cities, now is the time for anti-fashion naysayers to offer a superior yawn and tap out "Is this news?" below style stories online. Some people still believe that an interest in clothes means a woman's brain -- and it is overwhelmingly women on the receiving end of this disdain -- has crumbled into face powder, that the very existence of lipstick scrubs out 50 years of feminism.

"Fabulous Fashionistas (Channel 4) is a delightful, delicate documentary that sticks two fingers up to this idea."

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When I am an old woman I shall wear purple

With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.

And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves

And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.

I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired

And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells

And run my stick along the public railings

And make up for the sobriety of my youth.

I shall go out in my slippers in the rain

And pick flowers in other people's gardens

And learn to spit.

You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat

And eat three pounds of sausages at a go

Or only bread and pickle for a week

And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes.

But now we must have clothes that keep us dry

And pay our rent and not swear in the street

And set a good example for the children.

We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.

But maybe I ought to practice a little now?

So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised

When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.

Jenny Joseph