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Under wraps: the rise of the blanket-scarf

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It has been six years since Lenny Kravitz launched a million memes with his gigantic scarf. This autumn, his neckwear looks a little less daft: the blanket-scarf trend has gone big. Cardi B was one of the first to nail ...

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Get comfy! How curling up on the sofa became the height of fashion

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What are you doing tonight? With the sun setting before 4.30pm, the onset of winter is enough to make even the most sociable of us want nothing more after work than a simple formula: sofa, sweatpants, a series on the ...

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Our fashion choices always reveal something about us – even Julia Roberts’s armpit hair

Can someone ever just wear clothes without making ‘a fashion statement’? Daniel, by email No. Everything you wear, Daniel, is a statement about you, I’m afraid, even if that statement is: “I am so scared of anyone thinking I care ...

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How to wear: sequins in the daytime | Jess Cartner-Morley

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Sequins used to have a 9pm watershed, like sex and swearing on telly. You wore them to parties, for nights when you were not just out but out-out, but they were decidedly NSFW. Now that you can wear jeans to ...

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Be fabulous online and see off trolls

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Showing off is fun, right? Whether it be a boomeranged twirl in our favourite party outfit, or a ‘giraffe-lash’ fluttering close up, these mannerisms are part of modern self-expression on social media. To be fabulous is a part of life’s ...

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The best street style from Lagos fashion week – in pictures

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Scarlett Conlon Main image: Lagos fashion week street style Photograph: Courtesy of Lagos Fashion Week Fri 2 Nov 2018 11.57 EDT

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How fashion, both decadent and drab, became the star of Killing Eve

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You can tell a TV villain has made their mark on popular culture if they become a Halloween costume. This week, for every Trumpian wig or handmaid’s bonnet seen at a Halloween party, there was a giant pink dress based ...

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Beauty tips: cross the line with rebellious new eyeliners

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It’s always a relief when eyeliner – usually so perfect, so delicate, the slightest smudge ruining the whole effect – is encouraged to go a bit woo-woo. At Coach, Pat McGrath drew disconnected, graphic shapes around the eyes, a little ...

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The best new ethical products | Sali Hughes

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More than ever, brands are being asked to state – and act on – their ethical values and being called out on their flaws. It’s a positive move towards more responsible, sustainable consumer choices but, at the same time, I ...

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Is it time to stop shopping at Philip Green’s Topshop or Topman?

I guess I should stop shopping at Topman. Those allegations against Sir Philip Green are completely shocking! Daniel, by email Um, are they? That’s sweet, Daniel. For the rest of us, learning that the businessman at the centre of allegations ...

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