Being a swimmer, most of the time I smell of chlorine and my skin and hair can be very dry. I have to wash my hair once a day and my face all the time. I like my eyes, which ...

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 ...

Link to video: How to wear dungarees I try not to pay too much attention, on the whole, to what is age appropriate or otherwise. (What’s that? Oh, you’d noticed?) This is because, first, that way madness lies, and second (and ...

How to dress: dungarees ‘By adding a white shirt you make dungarees urban rather than rustic, and grown-up rather than childlike,’ says Jess Cartner-Morley

Petra, 35, relationship manager for a financial institution We lived in Slovakia, under a communist regime. All the clothes were mass-produced and everyone wore the same stuff. My mum wanted to wear something different, so she learned how to sew. ...

Alek Wek was 19 when she was approached by a model scout from a top London agency at a fair in Crystal Palace park. Her mother, she remembers, was horrified, thinking her daughter was about to become a Page 3 girl. ...

L’Wren Scott, the fashion designer who took her own life earlier this month, has left her estate of $9m (£5.4m) to her longtime partner, Mick Jagger, and nothing to her family, according a US media report. The 49-year-old designer bequeathed ...

Thanks to a particularly eye-catching hat, Pharrell Williams is in the midst of another fashion moment – so it makes sense for him to capitalise on it. His collaboration with Adidas – announced today – shows him doing just that. ...

Strutting down the catwalk en masse, the models almost resemble a row of marching soldiers. Then the camera cuts to a runway strewn with metal fencing, men and women ending their walks by throwing themselves to the floor as if ...

There is a photograph of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton gazing out over the river Arno in Florence. He wears a black suit, a flash of white shirt; she wears white, her handbag black. She rests it proprietorially on the ...