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Mr. Brandreth also appreciates quite a few of Milne’s 40 well-made plays, which fashionably skirt around then-trendy issues of authenticity and illegitimacy in the most un-Ibsen-like way possible.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

His friends used it when going to a party, because how else do you know how fashionably late to arrive?

From Slate • Dec. 14, 2025

And although Wintour is more than fashionably late, she’s showing up in time for the sequel.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2025

“Dandyism was imposed on Black men in Europe during the 1700s, as the Atlantic slave trade created a trend in fashionably dressed, or dandified, servants,” Miller continues.

From Salon • May 6, 2025

My brother’s fashion sensibilities run more into the support-your-sports-team end of the aesthetics spectrum, whereas this guy is wearing a faded concert T-shirt under a fashionably loud plaid jacket and fitted, distressed jeans.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali