Iconic british fashion designers

Kathy Slaughter, 66 Tell us about your ...

The “naked dress” has killed individuality and fashion

Bernadette Gledhill , from Huddersfield, has worked in the fashion industry for five decades, first as a model, then teaching others how it’s done and these days choreographing fashion shows. The 70-year-old’s career has come full circle, and she shares with us the joy of modelling, and why she’ll never let anyone perm her hair again!

Alison Parsons, 56 Tell us about your ...

Costumes and colours are integral to a show, says designer Leslie Kavanagh – none more so than in The Handmaid’s Tale , which concludes this week

Straight-talking, mad about make-up and proud to be an Essex girl, Dame Helen Mirren tells Annie Vischer what it means to be an icon