The emergence of the bra, tribal and global influences, costume jewellery, the shoulder pad, open-toed footwear, eco fashion, the invention of the bias cut… 100 Ideas that Changed Fashion not only guides us through more than a century of style concepts, technologies and ideas that forever changed the world of fashion, but in bite-sized articles also provides background information on how these changes came about.

Meet Henri, Coco, Baby, Puff and Bart, possibly the five most fashionable felines around. After all, they do live under the same roof as Vogue’s creative director Grace Coddington and her partner Didier Malige, the famous hair stylist. It’s through the eyes of their cheeky furbabies that we’re allowed to see what goes on in this very stylish and highly artistic household. “With sections devoted to the Collections, the Campaigns, and, of course, the Catfights.”

The Roaring Twenties was the decade of the flapper who defied Victorian morals and started the first female sexual revolution. Independent women like Louise Brooks, Clara Bow, Coco Chanel and Zelda Fitzgerald – sporting short hair, short skirts and long pearls – personified this cultural phenomenon. This book tells their story and is also an account of how “changes in American culture fed the rise of the flapper and vice versa”. An era that brought about the birth of modern advertising, mass consumerism and an intensified interest in celebrities.

The first days after Princess Diana’s death in 1997, Queen Elizabeth II was reluctant to release any official statement. This apparent lack of mourning outraged many, possibly even damaging the image of the crown. With the eyes of the entire nation and the rest of the world upon the royal family, Prime Minister Tony Blair decided to take matters into his own hands and persuade the queen to pay tribute to the “People’s Princess” after all. Stephen Frears has adapted this week of careful negotiations and clashing of two worlds for the big screen. With a splendid Helen Mirren in the role of Elizabeth II, and plenty of sartorial interest with the queen’s outfits and ever-present pearls.