Back to the future

The economy isn’t the only thing that has shades of the 1980s about it, with many designers drawing on the decade for stylish inspiration

While it may be the decade that many of us wished we could forget, the 1980s are back with a vengeance - bringing with them the one trend from which there will be no escape this season. The good news, however, is that, rather than a direct retrospective, these collections are taking elements of this much maligned decade and giving them a new twist.

At the high end, Marc Jacobs was perhaps the ...