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.

This “cult classic” title, as some websites describe it, is famed for its “sartorial takes” and even – says Town & Country magazine – “inspired an entire generation of fashion lovers”.

For a factual rather than fictional take on fashion’s impact, tune in to In Vogue: The Editor’s Eye, the documentary charting the evolution of Vogue, first shown in 2012 to mark the magazine’s 120th anniversary and still available on HBO Go.

Her initial popularity resulted in website overloads when wannabes went in search of at least one of her outfits, according to documentary How to Dress Like a Princess: Royal Fashion Secrets (Netflix).

“They may not say anything, but what they’re wearing speaks a thousand words,” opines one contributor about their royal highnesses. Perhaps that is for the best.

But if that is all too much and you prefer the basics, BBC Lifestyle offers reality show The Great British Sewing Bee, in which skilful amateur thread-pullers compete for the title of “best home sewer”. Pronounced “so-er”.

All the nice girls love a sailor, as the old music hall song has it, which must be something to do with the uniform.

According to Netflix documentary series Worn Stories (“a show about clothes and the people who wear them”), uniforms can “[make] you feel invincible”. Or constantly remind you of “your worst mistake” in the case of prison garb – something undoubtedly true of innumerable other fashion faux pas.