I have described the Five Hundred as a merchant corporation or assembly, for convenience. But there really is no modern parallel to this remarkable organisation. Like the Chola state, the Five Hundred ...
It was 2015, during the height of Phoebe Philo’s era of Céline, when I first saw her lace-trimmed, silky dresses and tank tops on the catwalk. They had a ’90s flair, but enhanced with Philo ...