Classical city built from always fashionable stone, reportedly (14)
I believe the answer is:
constantinople
'classical city' is the definition.
'Constantinople' can be an answer for 'city' (Constantinople is an example). I'm not certain of the 'classical' bit.
'built from always fashionable stone reportedly' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'from' could be 'in' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'in' is located in the answer.
'stone' could be 'st' and 'st' is found within the answer.
'reportedly' could be 'e' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'e' is found in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for constantinople that I've seen before include "Former name of Istanbul" , "seat for emperor" , "Istanbul formerly" , "capital no longer used" , "Old name of Istanbul" .)