Simply sign up to the Fashion myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. “Magical decor” was how Roland Barthes described fishnet stockings. In his 1957 essay “Striptease”, the French literary ...

FISHNETS SHOULD SUE Halloween for defamation. At some point after “sexy” Halloween costumes gained currency in the 1970s, the stockings became unfairly associated with too-short polyester getups sold ...

If you listen closely, you can almost hear the excitement of fashion lovers clicking their pointed-toe pumps together with glee, as the colder season inevitably also means, tights season. With a ...

Way back in June 2011, as news and info of the New 52 was just emerging, one of the interesting aspects of it that Bleeding Cool reported was an editorial "pants policy" for female characters, which ...

Urgent news from the front line of fashion: opaque tights are over. Make way for the arrival of sheer, patterned tights in all their forms. How do I know this? Because I’ve been paying attention at ...

07:58, Fri, Oct 14, 2016 Updated: 08:12, Fri, Oct 14, 2016 The actress looked unrecognisable in the thigh-skimming, gothic frock as she arrived at the annual UNICEF Ball. Wearing her tresses down in a ...

The fishnet tight is having a bit of a moment. Hot off the Simone Rocha, Jeremy Scott and Ashley Williams runway, the holey hosiery has become a celebrity favourite. But with the fishnet tight failing ...