What a view | Love fashion? The shows to watch for clothing inspiration, from documentaries on the queen and Meghan to Bridgerton and Sex and the City
- Netflix documentary How to Dress Like a Princess: Royal Fashion Secrets examines the sartorial choices of people like Meghan Markle and the late Queen Elizabeth
- It is one of several costume dramas, contemporary remakes, reality shows and documentaries where fashionistas can get their fill of their favourite looks
You will not find the ugly truth about fashion on mainstream or streaming television.
Dogs and cats (many of them stolen pets) battered to death in China to produce leather gloves? You do not see that in any handy documentary series, because advertising dollars carry more weight than ethics. Go to Peta’s YouTube video offerings instead.
As one venerated broadcasting company put it in a mealy mouthed answer to questions posed on the subject of fashion exposés: “[A]ngles like animal abuse in fashion or ethical fashion will not be aligned with [our] neutrality and mission to educate, not advocate.”
Many major fashion brands remain complicit in animal slaughter. That said, feel free to enjoy fashion and its favourite names as relentlessly presented globally in hit television shows.
Let’s start with that most rock ’n’ roll of footwear, the Dr Martens boot, subject of “Leather Boots”, an instalment of BBC Earth’s Inside the Factory.
