1. Millennial fashion was appalling Mean Girls sums up 00s boom-time style: a Destiny’s Child-meets-Britney Spears silhouette of form-fitting tops and tiny A-line skirts, with brightly coloured, skin-tight cardigans, Juicy Couture tracksuit bottoms and dinky, lozenge-shaped handbags tucked neatly under ...

The 90s are back! Yes, again. It takes at least three revivals before the final traces of the confusing, noisy mélange that characterises present-day reality is filtered out, and we are left with the true essence of an era. This ...

The beauty of Burberry’s new Nail for Spring (Pale Yellow, £15, uk.burberry.com) is in its offness. You can tell it’s posh by its failure to try hard. It’s not a bright highlighter yellow, nor a pretty blonde, neither does it have the ...

Stone Fabrics, Devon If you’re going to start making your own clothes, you need to get your hands on some fabric. There’s a reason seasoned sewists stash hoards of cloth in cupboards, beneath beds, stuffed in side drawers and hiding ...

This past year has seen countless “makeup-free” selfies posted by celebrities on Twitter, culminating grandly this month in Vogue’s cover featuring Nigella Lawson wearing “just a touch of blush and mascara“. Of course, in almost all cases, “makeup-free” celebrities are wearing ...

I love a stick. Fat, solid, twist-up makeup like something Larry Olivier might have smeared on before playing Coriolanus. Sticks are cylindrical like a bingo marker, so don’t take up too much makeup bag real estate (and don’t require brushes that ...

Once viewed as a feminine cliche – or as the woefully-uncool territory of middle-aged men – florals are now being embraced by twentysomething males, sales figures suggest. This trend has threatened for a while – but spring 2014 looks like ...

I have two daughters, of 12 and nine, and feel a massive responsibility to be positive about what I’ve been given, because it’s a hard world for a girl to grow up in. So I try not to be down ...

Going up A Different World The 1990s Cosby Show spin-off is enjoying a moment in the style spotlight. Super x PAM’s sunflower sunnies are very Dwayne Wayne. ‘Quiche’ Ja’mie: Private School Girl‘s expression, kept alive IRL by Lindsey Lohan. US ...

Exhibits from the Patrick Kelly retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, plus photographs of the man and the women who wore the designer’s clothes Read more: Patrick Kelly exhibition celebrates neglected fashion firebrand