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The beauty industry’s great fallacy is that its customer base is made up of (cue nauseating marketing portmanteau) “skintellectuals” – people who have the time, interest and wherewithal to understand…

I’ve been thinking a lot about something the fashion designer Bella Freud said recently, which was that she aims to create clothes that make you feel intrepid. This was such…

Rosita Missoni, the esteemed Italian fashion designer who co-founded the eponymous knitwear brand, has died aged 93. Internationally admired for her colourful fashion house, which she established with her husband,…

‘How does anyone do this?” I thought as I hobbled home from my first run, a pair of threadbare Converse biting into my heels. It took me a while to…

The bar for shopping recommendations is high at this point of the year. No one has the appetite – or the funds – for shopping for the sake of it…

To get into the kind of club where Sharon Smith worked, in New York City during the 80s, you couldn’t just turn up in jeans and a nice top. You…

There was a time when, in order to acquire a new item of clothing – say, a dress – you had to either inherit it from a family member or…

I am not sure when I gave up wearing makeup. I was never particularly good at it. As a student, I was thrown into an early 2000s performance of femininity…

“Shampoo is definitely not a scam,” says Neil Harvey, chair of the Institute of Trichologists. He is sceptical of the idea, claimed by the “no poo” movement, that hair can…