This November Christie’s presents Vintage Couture, a beautifully curated auction of fashion and accessories including dresses, shoes and handbags, which features designs by Pierre Balmain, Chanel, Chloe, Ossie Clark, Oscar De La Renta, Christian Dior, Fortuny, Galliano, Jean Paul Gaultier, Emilio Habana, Hermès, Christian Lacroix, Christian Louboutin, Jean Patou, Zandra [...]

Yes folks, that wonderful time of the year is approaching again – the time where parents dress their precious little ones up in witch-like plastic capes from Asda (3 for a £1) along with those hideous ‘Scream’ masks, and send them out to harass elderly neighbours by threatening to steal [...]

Behind every highly stylised look we see on the cinema screen, is a costume designer who created and shaped that image. From Marilyn Monroe’s ivory halter-neck “subway dress” in The Seven Year Itch to Rita Hayworth’s black strapless femme fatale-esque dress by Jean Louis in Gilda - both brought sophisticated high-maintenance, high-glamour to the [...]

“Integral beauty adds intrigue to the familiar” – Nick Veasey. British photographer, Nick Veasey produces images of illuminated everyday objects through the use of industrial X-ray machines, capturing multiple exposures of each object, and digitally fusing and enhancing those exposures to create a final composite image. Teddy bears, headphones, shoes, hairdryers and [...]

Designer Matthew Williamson has collaborated with my favourite flip flop brand, Havaianas, to create a capsule collection of what could just be the hottest wellies to be splashing around in this season! As part of the Brazilian footwear brand’s 50th anniversary, and the 15th birthday of Williamson’s eponymous label, the designer has created [...]

Most of you will probably remember Mikhail Baryshnikov as Carrie’s love interest, Alexandr Petrovsky, in Sex and the City (before she fell back into the arms of Mr Big in Paris), but alongside his flirtation with NYC’s best-dressed former singleton; Baryshnikov just happens to be one of the world’s most famous [...]

The ‘Vidal Sassoon: Outtakes’ exhibition at Somerset House pays tribute to the most influential British hairdresser of all time, described as a ‘rock star, an artist and a craftsman’.