What you need to know about the new 'Style Rules' for men and women

Style is about much more than following trends. But there have been seismic changes in the fashion world and you need to know the new rules, writes Annmarie O’Connor.

Style rules. Some love to follow them; others beg to break them.

Allegiances aside, their making facilitates a degree of cognitive freedom. On days that entail a school run and running late for work, the fixity of wardrobe staples is reassuring.