The fashion quiz of the year: from tie dye to Anna Wintour, put your style credentials to the test

1. In January, at the Grammys, singer Billie Eilish wore all Gucci, in black and fluorescent green. But one item she was wearing stood out. What was it?

   1. A pair of designer Crocs

   2. Gucci X That Zara dress

   3. A pair of earrings that said “Vote”

   4. A face mask

2. Fashion’s buzziest night, the Met Gala, was postponed “indefinitely”, but on which book had the Met team based its About Time theme?

   1. The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson

   2. Orlando by Virginia Woolf

   3. Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent and Lead by Brené Brown

   4. The GC: How to Be a Diva by Gemma Collins

3. After 50 years, Jean Paul Gaultier held his final show. It was packed with celebrity friends, but who wasn’t there?

   1. Yasmin Le Bon

   2. Paris Jackson

   3. Madonna

   4. Boy George

4. Tie dye was a big trend over lockdown, but which one of these natural ingredients didn’t work as a pattern helper?

   1. Red cabbage

   2. Acorns

   3. Lemons

   4. Turmeric

5. The fashion book of the year was André Leon Talley’s The Chiffon Trenches. Which of these quotes are not from that tome?

   1. Anna Wintour “was never really passionate about clothes. Power was her passion.”

   2. On Madonna: “She smiled warmly when she introduced herself and said, ‘Hi, I’m Madonna, you want a blow job?”

   3. On Karl Lagerfeld’s carbs habit: “He would chew the bread, savoring every bite, and then spit it out into a napkin.”

   4. “We nicknamed Grace Coddington ‘Mush’, after her habit of crushing Coke cans after she drank them."

6. Speaking of Ms Wintour, the world got very excited in April when she debuted what on Instagram?

   1. Cottagecore ringlets

   2. A Black Lives Matter T-shirt

   3. A chain like the one Connell in Normal People wears

   4. A pair of tracksuit bottoms

7. Edward Enninful’s British Vogue had a great run of covers, but which of the following did not appear on one?

   1. Paloma Faith hugging her nanny

   2. Marcus Rashford and Adwoa Aboah

   3. Key workers

   4. Rihanna in a durag

8. Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris became known for wearing what type of shoes on the campaign trail?

   1. Vibram FiveFingers

   2. Givenchy’s three-toed sandals

   3. Converse

   4. Flip-flops with a heel

9. For some of the fashion weeks, digital fashion shows replaced physical ones. Designers presented their projects in a variety of forms, but which of these wasn’t real?

   1. Gucci’s haiku

   2. Ahluwalia virtual exhibition

   3. Bianca Saunders’ zine

   4. JW Anderson’s short film

10. Chanel, Dior, Versace and more all featured in Emily in Paris, which had costume direction from Sex and the City’s Patricia Field. Emily in Paris became popular for its amazing dialogue, too. Which isn’t a line from the show?

    1. “I feel like Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge”

    2. “Paris is for cheese lovers”

    3. “A little ‘bonjour’ goes a long way”

    4. “C’est la va-va-voom, as they say”

Solutions

1:D - She wore a sheer Gucci face mask. At the time, we thought it was just her being fashion forward. A retrospective “lol” at that one., 2:B - Sadly, we won’t get a chance to see Katy Perry “interpreting” a gender-transforming time traveller., 3:C - Sadly, Madame X and her conical bra were absent., 4:C - In 2020 life gave us lemons. Don’t make us tie-dye with them, too., 5:D - We would obviously love it if this were true., 6:D - It was a pivotal moment in the elevation of comfort wear., 7:A - It would have lacked the impact of the others., 8:C - Fingers crossed for a collaboration., 9:A - All the rest happened., 10:D - Sadly, we just made this one up.

Scores

1. 10 and above.

   100%! See you on the phygital frow.

2. 7 and above.

   Good! Although you could do with more time thinking about sleeve size and collar width.

3. 0 and above.

   Bad. You think Emily in Paris is a documentary series.

4. 4 and above.

   Meh. Your Zoom backdrop probably leaves a lot to be desired.