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From “Freedom Day” to “Hot Vax Summer”, was there ever a year with so much pressure to scrub up well?

Let’s enjoy a refresher of the stylish heights 2021 managed to scale in difficult circumstances, writes Harriet Walker
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Adele

How to sum up 2021? Adele wearing a leather trouser suit and monogrammed Louis Vuitton coat to a... basketball game 🏀👠

This look had strong “putting Saturday night make-up on to go to the big Sainsbury’s” energy Image
Billie Eilish

Once famous for wearing genderless baggy T-shirts and dyed-green hair, Eilish chose this year to emerge in silver screen blonde-bombshell mode - which tells you everything about how young people feel about being cooped up Image
Zendaya

Fashion types thrill to see the film star dressing as though they are still in the film when they attend the premiere — witness Zendaya in this otherworldly sci-fi column dress by the apocalypse-couturier Rick Owens for the opening of the epic Dune Image
Timothée Chalamet

​​The strength of this holographic silver Tom Ford suit for his appearance at the Cannes Film Festival alone would guarantee the actor a spot on this list Image
Lady Gaga

From the meat dress of 2010 🥩 to the Quality Street dress of 2021 🍬

Sure, she still has her pants on show, but Lady Gaga’s purple Gucci gown at the House of Gucci premiere represented a maturing of the singer’s style Image
Emma Raducanu

Two days after winning the US Open, the tennis star, then 18, took to the Met Gala stairs wearing a printed Chanel two-piece and matching cape

Raducanu’s was a masterclass in how to emerge from one’s corona-crisis chrysalis Image
Helen Mirren

Mirren’s sea-foam shade of glitter at the Venice Film Festival set the standard for all 2021 occasionwear.

At 76, Mirren is a poster girl for those vaccinated early, who then really went for it on the party front 🎉 Image
AOC

“Tax the Rich”, read the gown worn by every hipster’s favourite congresswoman.

Online debate raged on and on as to whether AOC was helping the cause or not by attending such an expensive and lavish event

See the best of the rest here 👇
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