Truth or Bare

The crop top is having its single biggest fashion moment since the 1980s. But does exposing your torso feel like a fashion step too far? Sarah Macken goes in search of mid-riff elegance for real-life dressing.

Would you dare to bare your midriff? Designers including Victoria Beckham are suggesting that this is the season to show some skin.

There are some fashion trends that fill you with a particular kind of joy. The glimpse of a well-articulated sleeve on a beautiful dress or the split second when a shopping site floods your screen with colour and flounce.

Ralph Lauren once said, “I don’t design clothes, I design dreams”. It’s true. Good fashion should leave you feeling catapulted; transported, at the very least. Suddenly, the white noise fades and you’re mid-fantasy; dreaming of a ...