Melanie Ward obituary

Stylist who helped to upend fashion in the early 1990s, rejecting glitz and glamour for more everyday, informal outfitsNot much challenged the orthodoxy of glamour in fashion and decor through the 1980s. Proliferating glossy magazines celebrated revived couture, promoted luxury goods and displayed them on perfect human specimens in ideal settings. They did not care for, or cater to, the young, poor or inventive. Youthful street daywear was not their business.But there was another magazine world