Fashion

Rain, flash-flooding and snow weren’t enough to deter film’s A-list from walking – or wading – the red carpet at the 2013 BAFTAs last night. The stars took their fashion cues from the stormy weather, with the majority donning blacks, greys and dark blues. Anne Hathaway was a big winner on the night, taking home […]

The Academy Awards are just hours away and while Hollywood anxiously speculates about who will take home the prizes for best actor and actress, we’re more interested in who win another coveted title – best-dressed. Based on recent red carpet form, we think Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain and our own Naomi Watts will be ones […]

Astonishingly it was only last week that France finally repealed a law dating from 1799 which banned women from wearing pants in public. The original law, introduced just after the Revolution by Paris’s then police chief, was intended to prevent women from dressing like men, lest they be mistaken for revolutionaries. The law was later […]

Sydney’s fashion elite were out in force last week at the opening of the exquisite new Dior store, the first flagship store in the Southern hemisphere for the famed Paris fashion house. Dior has a lovely historic connection to Sydney: in 1947, Christian Dior sent seventeen of his preferred, ultra Parisienne “mannequins” to model his […]

WAGs – the wives and girlfriends of professional sportsmen – have a reputation to live up to when it comes to red carpet fashion and cricket’s finest didn’t disappoint at the Allan Border medal tonight. Australian captain Michael Clarke – who took home the main award for the fourth time – and his wife Kyly […]

Vivienne Westwood has been shocking the fashion world for more than 40 years, so it’s about time she got around to shocking the rest of us as well. Two larger-than-life nude portraits of the 71-year-old British designer went on display at London’s Institute of Contemporary Art yesterday, as part of a major exhibition by her […]

The fashion industry has been accused of promoting “manorexia” after an array of shockingly thin male models were sent down the catwalk at Paris Fashion Week. Designer YSL was criticised on the blogosphere for “woefully irresponsible model casting” as a photo of an emaciated model prompted a barrage of responses on social media. Photoshop fail: […]

All eyes were on the First Lady as President Barack Obama’s second inauguration was celebrated today. Michelle Obama dazzled in a ruby-red Jason Wu designed frock, the same US designer she chose to make her debut in, four years ago, causing the designer’s sales and popularity to surge. The Smithsonian museum houses a collection of […]

She burst into the spotlight as a baby-faced 20-year-old and morphed into a scantily-clad, fake-tanned WAG before being reborn a fashionista and mother of four. Now, 18 years after she shot to fame as part of the Spice Girls, Victoria Beckham is a household name with a multi-million dollar fortune, her own eponymous clothing line […]

This provocative image has sparked an international debate about what women's skirt lengths say about their sexual habits.