Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel The Great Gatsby is like a fast-spinning glitterball of excess on the cinema screen. With a beautiful cast of clothes horses, arty colourised B&W shots of New York streets and a thumping bass-heavy hip-hop soundtrack, this could easily have been a [...]

“The exhibition of all exhibitions (in my humble opinion) is coming to Somerset House this autumn, in a celebration of the work of the late great Isabella Blow”

For most of us the thought of buying sexy lingerie falls into two categories. 1 – for the “cheeky weekend away with the lover” (best shopped post-drinking lots of Sauvignon Blanc) and 2 – the lover buys it for you, which generally means they want to spice things up by [...]

Some may call it a retrospective, but ‘The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk‘ exhibition is a clever and visually striking art and fashion installation in my opinion. Yes there are over 140 cutting-edge and iconic designs from Gaultier’s avant-garde and eclectic design archive [...]

‘Mannequin, le corps de la mode’ (Model – the body of fashion) is an exhibition currently on show in Paris at Les Docks – Cité de la Mode et du Design, the fashion museum used for last year’s Balenciaga and Comme des Garçons / Rei Kawakubo exhibitions. Via 120 images, 10 [...]

There’s a new cultural phenomenon unfolding in London, and it’s all about celebrating women. From Miu Miu’s pop-up ladies-only private members club at the Café Royal in Regent Street last December, to KC’z, Soho’s women-only venue in Frith Street which opened on February 1st – the trend is to offer [...]

When I received an email from a PR inviting me on a cocktail safari, my first thought was ‘which airline am I flying and it better not be British Airways’ (they like to lose your luggage and then not care about losing your luggage), and my second thought was imagining [...]