Glossybox to launch March beauty box for just £8.50 - but it's worth over £50
1 HR AGO - The experts at Glossybox have created a new 'All Eyes On Me' March box, which contains five Expand
1 HR AGO - The experts at Glossybox have created a new 'All Eyes On Me' March box, which contains five different skincare and makeup products Collapse
Pump up the volume: why massive sleeves are this year's biggest trend
19 HRS AGO - Unmissable sleeves – with their ruffles, puffs and frills – are ballooning across the catwalk and Expand
19 HRS AGO - Unmissable sleeves – with their ruffles, puffs and frills – are ballooning across the catwalk and the high street. And there’s no sign of the trend deflatingOversized sleeves shouldn’t be a viable trend. They come stuffed with social and logistical questions. Such as: is it possible to hug those you love while wearing a top that resembles giant arm bands? And: how can you possibly squeeze a pair of huge sleeves into the arms of your coat? (Answers: no; and you can’t.) And yet the big sleevification of fashion is in full swing regardless.Last week’s Milan catwalks were full of sleeves the diameter of dinner plates. Elongated puffs of fabric covered the arms, like the trunk of a squid, at Fendi. At MaxMara, dresses came with drop-shouldered puff sleeves and bomber jackets with multilayered frills that recalled sea anemones. Continue reading... Collapse
How to get a free Revolution primer worth £8 from Superdrug
1 DAY AGO - Get a flawless skin finish with Revolution's Conceal & Fix Pore Perfecting Primer
Fluid and fashionable: V&A shakes up image of 'traditional' kimono
1 DAY AGO - Exhibition shows off rich history of Japanese garment in all its three-dimensional gloryMore than Expand
1 DAY AGO - Exhibition shows off rich history of Japanese garment in all its three-dimensional gloryMore than 100 kimonos, from Freddie Mercury’s favourite cherry-blossom-pink lounging robe to gold-embroidered ceremonial silks worn by Japanese samurai, are to go on display this Saturday in a major exhibition entitled Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk at the V&A in London.The exhibition, which also includes original Star Wars film costumes and designs by Yves Saint Laurent, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen, begins in Edo-period Japan: walls are painted in a shade called ”green tea” and fluttering white noren, the traditional fabric room-dividers that hang in the doorways of shops and restaurants in Japan, hover above the 400-year-old antique kimonos. Continue reading... Collapse
The Victoria’s Secret ‘woke’ rebrand is only skin deep | Priya Elan
1 DAY AGO - Other lingerie brands have embraced less prescriptive beauty ideals and diversity. Victoria’s Expand
1 DAY AGO - Other lingerie brands have embraced less prescriptive beauty ideals and diversity. Victoria’s Secret is scrambling to keep upVictoria’s Secret seems to be having a change of heart. The lingerie brand’s Instagram, typically a stream of pink underwear and mainly white waifish models, looks different: the models are racially diverse and smiling, the colours are calming and autumnal, the lingerie is styled in a noticeably looser way. There’s a visual subtext of female solidarity, and the captions speak to a beauty ideal that is open rather than prescriptive.It’s in keeping with an apparent volte-face that began in 2019. After years of promoting uniform beauty standards, spurning trans women and being accused of failing to protect models from sexual misconduct, the brand cancelled its runway show – broadcast annually since 1995 – and launched a campaign in partnership with the lingerie label Bluebella, which pledged to “encourage self-love, self-respect and self-worth. Because everybody Collapse
This is where Laura Whitmore's Love Island finale outfit was from
2 DAYS AGO - Laura Whitmore‘s Love Island wardrobe has prompted almost as much excitement as the show itself, Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Laura Whitmore‘s Love Island wardrobe has prompted almost as much excitement as the show itself, with the host’s outfits often prompting frenzied Google searches and causing items to quickly sell out. Collapse
Everything we know so far about Raf Simons joining Prada
2 DAYS AGO - The fashion world let out a universal yelp of excitement on Sunday when it was revealed that Expand
2 DAYS AGO - The fashion world let out a universal yelp of excitement on Sunday when it was revealed that Belgian designer Raf Simons would be joining Prada as co-creative director with Miuccia Prada. According Collapse
Should we ration fashion? Lessons in sustainability from the second world war
2 DAYS AGO - Fashion culture now would benefit from studying the ‘make do and mend’ attitude of the second Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Fashion culture now would benefit from studying the ‘make do and mend’ attitude of the second world war, says Extinction Rebellion co-founder Clare Farrell• Read more from the spring/summer 2020 edition of The Fashion, our biannual style supplementA wartime-style economy is often cited as a potential path towards meeting our international carbon emissions agreements. In debates about the fashion industry, the idea of a shift as radical as the one that took place in the second world war is frequently mooted in conversations about sustainability.Clearly this is a problematic comparison. It is important not to romanticise the violence of war or glamorise the reality of political states of emergency. But there is a reason the idea keeps being raised. The war is the most recent time in which the economy was overhauled in the face of an existential threat. It is the closest demonstration we have that quick, radical change is possible if we all come together. Continue reading... Collapse
Best women's watches for 2020
2 DAYS AGO - Looking for some new wrist candy? We've listed ten of the top picks for women's watches in 2020. Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Looking for some new wrist candy? We've listed ten of the top picks for women's watches in 2020. Our list includes professional, dressy and smart-enabled options Collapse
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Turn back time? What it means to wear a watch in the era of mobile phones
6 HRS AGO - As the need for watches has waned, the timepiece has become a wrist-based statement. Wearing one Expand
6 HRS AGO - As the need for watches has waned, the timepiece has become a wrist-based statement. Wearing one now can feel like a coded message• Read more from the spring/summer 2020 edition of The Fashion, our biannual style supplementI can tell the time. Honestly, the big hand, etc, the little hand and so on. I can definitely, absolutely tell the time, but a moment came, around 20 years ago, when I realised… I no longer had to.One side-effect of the rise of mobile phones was that clocks became decorative and watches irrelevant. As years passed, and my own life transitioned from blood and air to thumb and screen, the need for their very existence became questionable. If I needed to tell the time, I would glance to the top of whichever piece of glass I was using and in the small cracks in between, the shallow minutes when I was walking from one screen to the next, well, I could wing it, perhaps by measuring the angle of the sun. Continue reading... Collapse
The Ashford hair boom: how does one market town support 28 hair salons?
19 HRS AGO - After it was revealed that the town in Kent has 28 hairdresser’s for only 75,000 people, we sent a Expand
19 HRS AGO - After it was revealed that the town in Kent has 28 hairdresser’s for only 75,000 people, we sent a reporter to find out whyAshford in Kent made the news this week when someone counted the number of hairdresser’s in the town: 28, eight of which are huddled together on a 200-metre stretch of the high street. That is an awful lot of stylists for a place with a population of only 75,000. It raises the question: is this market town with a Eurostar station an untapped source of styling excellence?When I visit Ashford, I am greeted by a lot of short back and sides and woollen hats, a messy ginger up-do and some copper-coloured box braids coiled into a bun. A slender woman with an auburn blow-dry, sunglasses perched on top, gets into the passenger seat of a car. Another with a wet-look perm, dyed black and shiny, walks past a tall guy waiting in line to pay for parking: tight fade, baseball cap, absolutely stellar facial hair and mismatched socks. Continue reading... Collapse
Hockney muse Celia Birtwell: 'Nobody else has ever asked to draw me
1 DAY AGO - The textile designer is the artist’s most famous muse, posing for him since the 1960s in paintings Expand
1 DAY AGO - The textile designer is the artist’s most famous muse, posing for him since the 1960s in paintings that have become iconic. Ahead of a major Hockney show, she talks about the joy and sadness behind their creationThe first time textile designer Celia Birtwell modelled for David Hockney, she was, she says, terrified. “Look, that’s a very nervous me,” she says, pointing to a 1969 ink drawing titled, simply, Celia in Paris. “We were in an apartment in Paris – I think it belonged to Tony Richardson. It was so tranquil but I was terrified of doing something wrong.”Given this was to be the first of hundreds of portraits he made of her, she obviously did something right. Continue reading... Collapse
Best beauty sponges for 2020 if you want a flawless make up base
1 DAY AGO - Blend right in with these top beauty sponges for flawless makeup application
The upside-down headband – why back to front dressing is the latest fashion trend
1 DAY AGO - Wearing your pyjamas to work, showing your bra or doing your buttons up wrong once meant you Expand
1 DAY AGO - Wearing your pyjamas to work, showing your bra or doing your buttons up wrong once meant you probably got dressed in the dark. Now they are exciting new looksMy experience of getting dressed in the morning is often tempered by the fact that the lighting in my bedroom is terrible. I often put on trousers the wrong way round, socks are mismatched and T-shirts inside out. I’m not alone. Many of us have similar tales of wrongly sized bras and jumpers on inside out. But on the catwalk it’s a different story. In the season-after-season hamster wheel of reinvention, anything goes. Take the Fendi show last week in Milan, in which models sported headbands upside down on the back of their heads. It makes you wonder what else you could have been wearing wrong for years.The fashion website Man Repeller recently featured a piece about “reverse layering”, which recommended styling hacks including wearing a skirt over a dress, denim shorts over swimming trunks and a lace bra over a man’s shirt. Collapse
Designer Philipp Plein criticised for 'disgusting' Kobe Bryant tribu…
2 DAYS AGO - Fashion designer Philipp Plein has faced backlash after paying tribute to the late Kobe Bryant in Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Fashion designer Philipp Plein has faced backlash after paying tribute to the late Kobe Bryant in a “distasteful” way during a Milan Fashion Week show on Saturday. For the finale, the German fashion Collapse
Giorgio Armani holds Milan fashion show in empty room amid coronavir…
2 DAYS AGO - Giorgio Armani held his runway show at Milan Fashion Week in an empty theatre amid coronavirus Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Giorgio Armani held his runway show at Milan Fashion Week in an empty theatre amid coronavirus fears. On Sunday, Armani released a statement announcing that the fashion show, which was due to take Collapse
Best unisex perfumes for 2020 - top fragrances for both men and women
2 DAYS AGO - Scent to share! Blur the gender boundary lines with these top unisex fragrances for men and women
Raf Simons joins Prada as co-creative director
2 DAYS AGO - Belgian designer will work alongside Miuccia Prada, with first joint collection due in Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Belgian designer will work alongside Miuccia Prada, with first joint collection due in SeptemberPrada has always been a brand that dictates the rest of fashion. That tradition was stepped up in Milan on Sunday with a groundbreaking announcement at the brand’s headquarters. Designer Raf Simons is to work alongside Miuccia Prada. The two will be co-creative directors.They are two of the most influential designers in fashion, which makes this an unprecedented alpha alliance – the fashion equivalent of Pep Guardiola and Jürgen Klopp teaming up to manage Barcelona, or Bruce Springsteen and Madonna forming a supergroup. As CEO Patrizio Bertelli said through an interpreter in his introduction to the duo: “Here, again, the Prada Group have proven to be at the forefront of change.” Continue reading... Collapse
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Dior show opens with commentary on the patriarchy
19 HRS AGO - Dior designer uses sophisticated optics to pitch the brand as conscious and engagedBecause Expand
19 HRS AGO - Dior designer uses sophisticated optics to pitch the brand as conscious and engagedBecause Christian Dior loved flowers and nature, he took the tulip as inspiration for his dress patterns and bottled the scent of Lily of the Valley as Diorissimo. But in the 21st century, the house he founded broadcasts its affections on a grander scale. Dior have partnered with the Louvre museum to finance a five-year restoration project of the Tuileries Gardens. Financial details of the patronage have not been disclosed, but when Paris fashion week opens with the Dior name emblazoned on a temporary structure the size of a provincial railway station in the centre of one of the oldest and most elegant public parks in Paris it seems fair to assume a hefty sum is involved.Fashion is now much bigger than mere clothes and Christian Dior, one of the most powerful brands of the moment, has both the ambition and the economic might to claim a seat at the table in conversations ranging from feminism to climate Collapse
Gok Wan: 'I once wore head-to-toe beige – I looked like a Ford Cortina!
23 HRS AGO - The TV presenter on his style inspirations, his love of homemade clothes and why fashion shouldn’t Expand
23 HRS AGO - The TV presenter on his style inspirations, his love of homemade clothes and why fashion shouldn’t be taken too seriouslyThis was my look for the ITV Gala in 2016. I am wearing a Maison Margiela dinner jacket that I put shoulder pads in, trousers by Zara and boots from Yves Saint Laurent. I have got a Chanel clutch, Marks & Spencer gloves – and I made the scarf on the morning of the gala. I remember thinking it needed something else, but I had no time to go home or go shopping. I was working at This Morning and there was an old dress that had been hanging around for months, so I added some fringing I found in their haberdashery department. I have worn that scarf probably more often than anything else in my wardrobe.I love stuff that is homemade and has a story behind it way more than buying couture or designer. One of my favourite shirts is from Asos: it is blue flannel and I embroidered loads of words on it – most of them are too rude for me to wear it on TV. Continue reading... Collapse
Best makeup brush sets for 2020 - expert tools for the perfect make up look
1 DAY AGO - Put your best face forward with these top brush sets will give you perfect makeup from flawless Expand
1 DAY AGO - Put your best face forward with these top brush sets will give you perfect makeup from flawless foundation to killer contours Collapse
These are the best-dressed people at Milan Fashion Week
1 DAY AGO - Fashion month is underway, which means the world’s most revered and well-dressed industry players Expand
1 DAY AGO - Fashion month is underway, which means the world’s most revered and well-dressed industry players are dashing around the four fashion capitals – New York, London, Milan and Paris – in one Collapse
Oh Mumma subscription box service is the perfect treat for expectant mothers
1 DAY AGO - Not your average subscription box, Oh Mumma is packed with items perfect for mum’s to be or new Expand
1 DAY AGO - Not your average subscription box, Oh Mumma is packed with items perfect for mum’s to be or new mothers now - and there’s even a gift for baby too. Collapse
These £40 high street heels are the perfect dupe of Manolo Blahnik's £800 pair
2 DAYS AGO - Shoe Zone have created a pair of heels that look similar to the Nadira pumps by Manolo Blahnik - Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Shoe Zone have created a pair of heels that look similar to the Nadira pumps by Manolo Blahnik - and they won't set you back the £795 price tag. Collapse
My boyfriend’s wedding dress unveiled my own shortcomings over masculinity
2 DAYS AGO - I’m quick to blame men for their toxic behavior, but in this case, I, the woman, was part of the Expand
2 DAYS AGO - I’m quick to blame men for their toxic behavior, but in this case, I, the woman, was part of the problemMy gaze scanned the colorful racks of clothing and stopped abruptly on something I’d never expected to see: my boyfriend was clutching a wedding dress – that he wanted to buy for himself.“Emily!” he cried with victorious glee. “I’ve found the one!” Continue reading... Collapse
Best sunscreen for your face 2020 to keep skin protected that works under make up
2 DAYS AGO - Get ultimate complexion protection with these top sunscreens for your face - for all skin types
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