Blood & Beauty By Sarah Dunant, Virago $29.99. With a new pope charged in part with cleaning up the image of the Catholic Church, Sarah Dunant’s delicious epic delving into Renaissance Italy and the lives and lusts of Rodrigo Borgia and his extended family couldn’t come at a more pertinent time. While we are most […]

Can’t wait until July to get your first glimpse of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s first born child? Now you don’t have to — you can knit your own royal baby today. Knitting maven Fiona Goble, the creator of the hugely-popular Knit Your Own Royal Wedding book, has released a new pattern: Knit Your […]

A graphic new anti-anorexia ad campaign has been shared hundreds of thousands of times on social networks. The ‘Say no to anorexia’ images — created by Brazilian modelling agency Star Models — use Photoshop to stretch shockingly thin women to resemble life-size fashion illustrations. The digitally manipulated models appear next to a typical designer’s sketch […]

Millions of parents are choosing to share their child’s most humiliating moments on social media. Zoe Arnold asks where we should draw the line. I was doing some research online (okay, reading random items I’ve googled) and I stumbled across a gem of a blog called There’s no place like Mommy. I was reading it […]

An Australian scientist has led a vaccine breakthrough that is being lauded worldwide but largely ignored in local media. Zoe Arnold asks why we’re letting anti-vaccination lobbyists stop us from celebrating a major medical milestone. There’s some big news in the medical community this week. Gardasil: the vaccine that prevents human papillomavirus (HPV), better known […]

The evolution of online dating has seen it go from a desperate last resort, to an acceptable activity with some stigma attached, to just about the only option among Australian singles. But to Gen-Y, setting up an RSVP profile is no longer desperate or shameful, it’s just passe — Twitter is where it’s at. The […]

A Swedish modelling agency has been accused of staking out a treatment centre for eating disorders scouting for anorexic ‘talent’. Director of the Stockholm clinic Anna-Maria af Sandeberg said head hunters had approached ill patients, one wheelchair bound, hoping to recruit them. Kirstie Clements: Thin is in because designers demand it “They were outside the […]

Vogue has caused controversy again for publishing “blackface” pictures of a white model. This time it’s the Netherlands edition of the fashion bible that is in hot water after it ran an editorial featuring pale-skinned model Querelle Jansen with her face “blacked-up” and an afro wig on. The photographic spread — which was styled by […]

Many women say they feel isolated and lonely following the birth of their first child, but a new study has revealed that a baby actually improves your social life. The UK research found that women make an average of nine new friends upon the birth of their first baby, and in the first year this […]

Beyonce Knowles is certainly one busy queen Bey! Her documentary Life is but a drem recently aired in the US and she is preparing for her world tour. But Beyonce always has time for fashion! Her latest shoot for H&M shows the singer looking super sexy in a bikini, but the singer doesn’t just model […]