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How often should you wash your hair? Every five days if you’re Kim Kardashian

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Earlier this week, US site Into the Gloss answered a burning question – how do you get to look like Kim Kardashian? – by interviewing her about her beauty regime. The whole interview is mesmerising. But beyond all the brouhaha ...

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Kids at the catwalk: In defence of taking children to fashion shows

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What is it about taking kids to catwalk shows that makes people so cross? I don’t get it. You can take kids to music festivals, you can take them to fancy restaurants, you can take them to far-flung corners of ...

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What do models eat at London fashion week?

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There is, contrary to popular belief, a lot of food at London fashion week. Here is our LFW roundup so far of quiche, juice and, erm, prawn toast

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Alexa-watch at London fashion week – in pictures

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Fashions will come and seasons will change but there will always be Alexa Chung, Optrex to our fashion-weary eyes and ever-present at London fashion week. As the five-day event draws to a close, we celebrate with a round-up of Alexa ...

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Time, tide and Burberry shows wait for no woman – not even Naomi Campbell

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The Burberry catwalk show, being these days not so much a fashion parade as a key messaging moment for one of the giant brands of the modern age, waits for no one. Not even Naomi Campbell. The physical audience at ...

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Sir Malcolm Rifkind channels his inner George Smiley

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Sir Malcolm Rifkind leaves parliament on Monday. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images It might seem gauche to focus on Malcolm Rifkind’s style in light of the cash-for-access scandal currently monopolising your news feeds, but here we are. To be honest, he ...

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How to master the street-style pose

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The raptor The Raptor Photograph: Julien Boudet/BFAnyc.com/REX/Julien Boudet/BFAnyc.com/REX What is it? Bags may come and go, but the giant oversized tote will always be a favourite as will holding it like this thus shortening your arms like those of a ...

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In what world is naming a lipgloss Underage a good idea?

I recently came across a tinted lipgloss by Mac, on sale in the US and UK, with a pretty shocking name. Can you help me make sense of this? Zohra, by email The above is a very condensed version of ...

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Ten of the best overspill bags – in pictures

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The oversized tote phenomenon is showing no sign of slowing down, mainly because we all have so much stuff to carry around. From neoprene florals to structured pastels, here are the most chic ways to hoard

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Men in Black: Lynx’s new ‘upmarket’ scent gets roadtested

Since 1985, Lynx has been selling its “effect” to men, via scents and shower gels with absurd names and terrifying smells. In the 1990s, my Lynx du choix was Inca – a nutty, fruity scent, the sort of thing that ...

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