Fashion Power 100: how we decided the industry’s most influential

What was the most cited trend moment of the last year? Hello stealth wealth. Arguably the most nuanced, detailed representation of the honey-dressed rich came from Succession, which put a plain baseball cap by a niche, incredibly expensive Italian brand (Loro Piana), not to mention one ludicrously capacious Burberry bag, on the map. Which is why we’ve included Michelle Matland, the costume designer of that show. It’s her shrewd choices which have propelled that idea into something which now floods social media with videos examining “how expensive” high street clothes appear in order to get the look. Given our obsession with binge-watching TV series, costume designers are gaining status just as red carpet stylists have done.