David Logshaw's characters Selnec and her pet rabbit Harriet interview Mary Katrantzou and discuss contemporary couture.
Whether for power or pleasure, the upper classes defined much of menswear's enduring iconography, from dazzling medieval armour to decadent Edwardian lounge suits.
Was Flair a simple case of over-ambition, peaked-to-early visionary talent or general bad luck? Victoria Loomes investigates.
As 2010 draws to a close then, what abounds is a tussle between the dressed up and the functional, the practical and the poised, Pomp and Circumstance.