The thing about being a single mum is that when your children are little, there’s no one around to engineer the pantomime of Mother’s Day by buying a present or helping them make a card. I feel this is ample justification ...

The “morning-after eye” is a mess. A mess and a trend. According to certain paths of fashion, your eyes should look like you rolled home from an after-party two days and 67 missed calls late, a phone number scrawled on your forearm ...

Emma Watson, a role model to young girls (and boys) who watch her films, has lamented the huge pressure she feels to look perfect. At the weekend she commented: “With airbrushing and digital manipulation, fashion can project an unobtainable image ...

Kate Moss and Mark Wahlberg In the 1990s, Calvin Klein’s adverts ruled the billboards and Christy Turlington was – quite literally – the poster girl. The American model, one of the original Peter Lindbergh-lensed Supers, was on Calvin Klein’s books ...

Is this the Kate Mossiest cover of all time? It stars Kate Moss, was styled by Kate Moss, who is now a contributing fashion editor at Vogue, and Kate Moss is wearing an outfit designed by Kate Moss. The clothes ...

One of the most irritating things about buying clothes when you’re older is that no one seems to take into account the fact that, short or tall, fat or thin, your shape changes. How many times have you screwed your ...

An exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston opened recently, dedicated to the colour pink. As one reviewer explained: “Pink has always been with us, though it was not always as gender-entrenched as it is today” The Think ...

The word glamour originally meant magic or enchantment: to “cast a glamour” was to cast a spell to make something appear different from reality. And it is glamour in this sense – what the author Virginia Postrel calls nonverbal rhetoric ...

Wardrobes are not just storage spaces. They are sites of social engagement that communicate significant messages about our identities and values. If we define a “wardrobe” not just as a piece of furniture, but a collection of garments that is ...

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