From the frow to the brow: how front row politics transcended fashion

Once upon a time, the most in-demand seat was on the front row of a Burberry show. Now it’s a seat courtside at the NBA playoffs and even in high-octane exercise classes

     Daisy Lowe, Pixie Geldof and Alexa Chung at the Christopher Kane SS15 show. Photograph: John Phillips/Getty                 Images

There’s a very real reason the feudal systems have remained in our social consciousness since the ninth century. Take as an example the frow, the mother of all non-political non-manorial feudal systems.

Cuts: the 1980s hair salon that gave the stars their cutting edge

After 19 years working on the project, film-maker Sarah Lewis is ready to launch her documentary on the ongoing style phenomenon of Cuts

Sarah Lewis capturing Cuts: 'It’s not really just about the haircuts. You just become part of that community.' Photograph: Nic Tuft

It was the creative hub of trend-setting Britain, a base for clubbers and a hangout for style gurus from David Bowie to Jean-Paul Gaultier. Cuts was where everybody who was anybody in 1980s London came to get their hair done.

Alice Fisher on style: gingham

It’s the print of summer picnics, but with so many new styles there’s nothing square about gingham

From left: Blue and white dress, £46, asos.com, Jemima mini Bugatti bag, £255, lkbennett.com, Narrow trousers,£35.99, zara.com, Lace-trim ankle socks, £3.50, topshop.com, Model wears Bottega Veneta S/S 2015, Gingham lawn dress, £135.35, Marc by Marc Jacobs (shopbop.com), Limited-edition slingbacks, £25,marksandspencer.com, Sweatshirt, £99, Au Jour Le Jour (yoox.com)

Ask most people what they associate with gingham and they’ll say food and summer. It’s a happy print. You get gingham napkins tucked in wicker hampers and picnic blankets spread out on sunny grass. I once went to Paris with a man who insisted we search Montmartre for a brasserie with just the right sort of red-check cloths on the tables. (Don’t worry, we split up soon afterwards.) Even fashion folk concur: Diane von Furstenberg, who was one of the many designers to use the print in her spring collection, called her check frocks Picnic Dresses.

From Bathsheba Everdene to lumbersexuals, what’s hot and what’s not this week

On their toes: stationery jewellery, pass agg teen speak, Raised By Wolves. On their heels: emojis, Card Room Green, and… er, toes

Going up

Stationery Hillier’s new jewellery collection has drawing pins as earrings. Raiding work’s stationery cupboard is now a thing.