What can mere mortals learn about wearing vintage from how Moss wears vintage?

There are some nuggets of wisdom in a book she has edited, Musings on Fashion and Style: Museo de la Moda, in collaboration with the Chilean fashion museum.

Firstly, she looks at the garment, not the label.

When she shops for the 1970s peasant-style dresses she loves, she sifts the racks for the colours that look right, first of all.

And when she bought that lemon-yellow dress, the one that would have broken the internet had it been possible then, she didn’t know who Dessès was.

Second, Moss knows what suits her. Bias-cut dresses, for instance, are a vintage-shop treasure, which Moss loves for being flattering, subtly sexy and easy to have fun in. In the words of Madeleine Vionnet, whose bias-cut gowns were the toast of 1930s Paris, “when a woman smiles, her dress should smile with her”.