So what does the Guardian do at the moment… where does it sit as regards these issues?
All 24 of The Guardian’s areas of coverage can be viewed on Guardian Unlimited, they also currently carry satirical journalistic and artistic pieces as seen below:
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A peek at the diary of ... Sarah Jessica Parker
Saturday October 13, 2007
The Guardian
As I type in a fishnet bodystocking and a silk tea dress, with a giant deconstructed gold lamé hibiscus perched on my shoulder, I hope you are not starting to feel commitment issues toward the forthcoming Sex And The City movie.
Sure, you may have seen all those pictures of me on set in a wedding dress. But, like the producers say, that could be a dream sequence. Because the one thing a concept as self-absorbed as Sex And The City really lacks for is a dream sequence.
Yes, if you can be sure of anything at all, it's that the movie will be very, very surprising. There's even a black character! She plays my assistant. What's the movie like? Well, because viewers are deemed incapable of understanding things unless it's packaged in a totally lame analogy, I took the time to phone one in. I started to think that movies are like relationships. You begin wondering whether to commit. Then, when you take the plunge, there's a period when you wonder whether you ought to go back to being a free agent, getting turned down for parts looking for "a Gwyneth Paltrow type". Then, when you finally feel yourself falling in love, the thing comes to an inexplicable end, and you end up being told you are not good enough by a test audience in Iowa.
Does that make sense? Of course it does. Now, look at my shoes.
- As seen by Marina Hyde
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Hell for leather
Jess Cartner-Morley
Saturday October 13, 2007
The Guardian
Leather comes back on the fashion radar at least every other winter (except, of course, at Stella McCartney). This is vaguely baffling, considering the fact that it is almost impossible to wear leather without looking like a has-been rock star, but that's fashion for you. Actually, you can wear leather without looking like a has-been rock star: if you wear it badged and padded, you can look like a Hell's Angel. Or you can wear it faded and patched, and look like a 1970s PhD student, but the 1970s PhD student look is not one that has ever been a fashion trend (paging Miuccia Prada: uncharted fashion territory alert!), so it need not concern us.
There are leather coats in the shops, but these are best avoided unless you want to look like a call girl. You might want to consider the most fashionable leather look of the season, which is a cropped, casual, fitted zip-up jacket worn over a cocktail dress and thick tights, with ankle boots. However, it is difficult to pull off if you are over 30. Some women can - Chrissie Hynde could still wear this convincingly - but it is best approached with caution. My rule of thumb is: if you still feel this is the true you, go for it, but if you feel like a fraud in it, then you probably look like a fraud, too.
The best starting point with leather is a skirt. Remember the fabric of any skirt has its own raunch-factor, which should be added to or subtracted from the hemline. Tweed, being passion-killingly sensible, has an RF of four inches, so a mid-thigh tweed skirt is only as raunchy as a knee-length regular skirt. Leather, on the other hand, has an RF of minus three inches, meaning anything shorter than mid-thigh is, in fact, obscene.
The leather revival does not extend to trousers. And for that we should be grateful.
