Maria Sibylla Merian honoured by Google doodle Search engine marks 366th anniversary of birth of German artist-naturalist known for her book on the insects of Suriname

Some things are above politics. When David Cameron was pictured with an ingenious new backcombed style for his thinning hair, you can be sure that balding heads of all allegiances shook in sympathy. If yours is one of them, however, ...

Recently, Alexa Chung , was reading interviews she gave when she was just starting out, to see whether she’d changed in the past few years. She came across a stand-out quote: “I don’t want to be known for floating around and ...

Culottes are a feminist item. Their progressive status is somewhat ironic, given the history of male culottes – posh French legwear which was so upper class the revolutionaries who stormed the Bastille were known as sans culottes (the term was ...

They’re not quite lip glosses and they’re not quite lip stains – they’re called things like “paints” and “extraits”, they’re liquid lipsticks and they stay on for almost ever. Best for the bold colours, the shiny wet-look reds and fuchsias, ...

As a near lifelong beard sporter, I was concerned to read an article in the Guardian last week saying that we have reached “peak beard”. What does this mean, exactly?Jimmy, London Well, quite, Jimmy, what does this mean? And more ...

They’re not quite lip glosses and they’re not quite lip stains – they’re called things like “paints” and “extraits”, they’re liquid lipsticks and they stay on for almost ever. Best for the bold colours, the shiny wet-look reds and fuchsias, ...

A new campaign to change the way we think about shopping will be launched on Thursday, one year after the garment trade disaster at the Rana Plaza in Bangladesh. Backed by MPs including the shadow consumer minister, Stella Creasy, and ...

Space is so short in the immense warehouses where Kopenhagen Fur, the world’s largest fur auction house, runs its business, that boxes of mink skins now fill up rooms designed for inspecting furs or sorting them into different grades and ...

There’s a rule of thumb in fashion: when you see something three times, you call it a trend. But by the same token, if you see something too often, the look is done. It’s hard to know how Ed Balls, ...