Style guru Caryn Franklin says the clothes industry must change its ideals and help empower more women to feel good about themselves. Alison Jones met her. The women of Birmingham are used to having celebrity stylists dropping by to transform their lives through their wardrobes. They all have their shock tactics, from the mammary manhandling of Trinny and Susannah to the strip-a-gran approach of Gok Wan, boosting self-esteem through nudity. It is not an approach that Caryn Franklin is likely to be adopting in her How To Look Good stage show at the Pavilions next week, I am always amazed, having watched one programme with Gok where all the women agreed to go on bare-breasted. We never asked anybody to do that and nor would I do that today. We, of course, was The Clothes Show, the pioneering, Birmingham-made fashion series which can lay claim to having introduced the idea of the TV makeover. Going to meet someone as fashion savvy as Caryn is enough to produce a minor clothes crisis, but...
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