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EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT FASHION

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Vincent
Published date11 June 2022
Dubbed the TV hit of the summer before it even landed on our screens, it is based on the bestselling book by journalist Dolly Alderton and, like CWF, is an exploration of love and friendships among millennial women

Despite being a huge fan of Dolly's podcast The High Low, which she presented with pal Pandora Sykes - a show Piers Morgan once dismissed as "braying posh girls talking gibberish" - I struggled to connect with her memoir when I read it.

Then again I am a decade and two months older than she is.

I came of age in the partymad Nineties, not the recessionravaged, angst-ridden late Noughties.

But, in need of light relief after seven episodes of 'mustwatch' true crime drama The Staircase, I put aside my misgivings and dived on in this week.

Any doubts I had about whether the show would resonate with me were discarded within two scenes.

I may never have smoked in a train toilet with a bloke called Street, like lead character Maggie (based on Dolly) but I did own the red floral Kate Moss x Topshop dress she was wearing when she met up with the Pete Doherty wannabe again in a bar in Camden.

That I stopped wearing it because I didn't like the way you could see the lining on the turnback of its frilly collar exemplifies how different me and 25-year-old Maggie are.

I sold the dress on eBay in the end. For more than I paid for it. Given that Everything I Know About Love's costume designer Matthew Price said he created the looks by

Maggie (right, in that with best (Bel Powley) I Know scouring resale sites, that might actually have been my frock.

Ploughing on through the series, the memories from my own closet came thick and fast.

The skinny 'Jamie' jeans - Topshop again - the faux-fur jackets, the red tartan coat that I returned because it looked too much like a dressing gown, the sparkly mini dress that wouldn't zip up and also had...

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