For around three decades (give or take) you have your name. It’s yours: it’s the one you were given the day you entered the world, the one on your passport, your driver’s licence and all those damn online shopping sites that keep sending you pesky (yet tempting…) emails. Oh, and it makes up your email […]

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 […]

Escaping the day-to-day routine of domestic drudgery - however briefly - is one of great attractions of a cruise, discovers Mike Dolan.

The children of obese mothers are far more likely to develop diabetes than those with thinner mums. An international study led by Dr Matt Sabin from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne has found that a mother’s body mass index (BMI) can be used to predict whether a child will develop type 2 diabetes. […]

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: […]

David Koch has responded to the controversy he caused and “vitriol” he copped over his comments on the hot issue of public breastfeeding, but has he excused his actions or is he just making it worse? Writing in today’s Daily Telegraph, Kochie has said he believes Australian women should be able to breastfeed “anywhere at […]

Mum-of-two Zoe Arnold has news for David Koch: mums don’t like exposing their breasts in public any more than he likes seeing them — but any mum, given the choice between a screaming baby and a content, well-fed one, will opt to get their boobs out. Anywhere, anytime. One day I was breast-feeding my five-month-old […]

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 […]