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A user's guide to fashion

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Shorter hours Remember the ring watch? Well, that icon of 1980s horology - rivalled only by the wall-sized Swatch - is back and is smaller than ever. Reincarnated by Philippe Starck for Fossil, the latest digital models look more like minimalist art than gift-shop kitsch, and are available in two sizes and colours. A pendant timepiece, suspended from a stainless-steel chain, has also been reworked by Starck. For more information and stockists call 2416 2710.

Boning up If you're handy with a sewing machine and don't mind a bit of boning, click on www.showstudio.com this month. The cutting-edge fashion, photography and art website, created by celebrity snapper Nick Knight, has posted the complete pattern to one of John Galliano's pirate jackets from his spring/ summer 2002 collection. It is an iconic piece and, while not for novices, sure beats Butterick.

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'People are trained by the media to be perfect consumers of mass-manufactured rubbish. The people who wear this stuff have bought the system, and their appearance demonstrates the fact that their brains have been removed.'

Vivienne Westwood on fashion victims in i-D.

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On the curriculum Style gurus can stop holding their breath: Nuala, the yoga-inspired clothing line by Christy Turlington, has finally arrived on our shores. Chic, comfortable and coloured in Caribbean hues for spring, the range was conceived by the serene super-model while she was studying at New York University. 'I was constantly moving from business meetings to classes to the yoga centre and back, and didn't have time to change my clothes several times a day,' she explains. Now you don't need to either: Nuala's signature spaghetti tank-tops, chino jackets and roll-down pants look as good on the streets as they do on the studio floor. From Lane Crawford, Canton Road, Tsim Sha Tsui.

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