When Cha Ji-won decided to throw out all her makeup and cut her hair, her mother was the first to tease her: “Oh look, I have a son now.” For more than a decade, starting when she was 12, Cha ...

In August, Urban Decay announced via a celebrity-attended online “funeral”, that it would be discontinuing its original Naked palette (its many offshoots and franchises will remain). Gimmicky and self-aggrandising at first glance, perhaps, but one has to give Naked its ...

Gilberto Benetton, co-founder of the eponymous clothing brand, has died at the age of 77 after an illness, the Italian group announced. “Gilberto Benetton died at home today in Treviso [north-east Italy] following a brief illness,” the Benetton group said ...

Caitlin Young is one of millions of teenagers and 20-somethings who are shaking up the fashion industry by digging out their parents’ cast-offs, raiding charity shops and scanning boot sales to build mini businesses online. Young picks up 1990s and ...

The Fashion Award nominations for 2018 have been announced this morning, with major nods going to the most high-profile designer debuts of the year. Louis Vuitton’s Virgil Abloh and Dior Homme’s Kim Jones, who unveiled their first collections for the ...

Like sneakers and cycling shorts, the trend for scene-stealing earrings isn’t going anywhere in a hurry – but, for the latter, bigger no longer means better. While we have been enjoying the art-house asymmetric creations that have dominated the jewellery ...

Green eyeshadow, in shades of seaweed and emerald, glittered from the AW18 catwalk. At Ashish, the models wore it beneath bold Egyptian-style cat’s eye kohl, swooshed up to the brow with a hint of gold. It was divine. Though you’ll ...

I’m calling this season ‘fix up, look sharp’ – a mantra I’m trying to go by, which means looking after oneself whenever possible. I’ll be replacing the rock’n’rolling of summer with holistic, soul-calming pursuits. You’ll find me at a gong ...

Three years ago a contact told me about a new US cruelty-free skincare brand with a “cleaner beauty” manifesto. A range free, she said, of what the founder called “the suspicious six” – silicone, essential oils, chemical sunscreens, sulphates, fragrance, ...

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