Fashion

Are you an hour glass? Pear shape? No idea? If you’ve never considered what body shape you are UK stylist Gok Wan is here to help. “In 16 years of dressing women — over 40,000 in my career — I would say the first question any woman will ask me is ‘what body shape am […]

Feeling fat and frumpy? Celebrity stylist Gok Wan is here to help you banish those feelings forever with his top tips for looking fabulous no matter how old you are (or what those numbers on the scale say). AWW: What are the three biggest fashion mistakes women make? Gok: Not dressing for your body shape, […]

She is seen as a fashion trendsetter by many, including actress Anne Hathaway, and the clothes she wears sell out within hours, but some fashion experts say the Duchess of Cambridge is not a style icon. Speaking at New York Fashion Week, fashion director at US retail chain Nordstrom Gregg Andrews said Middleton was “a […]

It’s not often the words affordability and comfort find their way into the critique of a catwalk show, but the worlds of fashion and affordability collided as the ‘Love Living in Emerson’ runway show debuted in Sydney last weekend. The Weekly’s fashion team specialises in showing you how to be stylish at any age, and […]

Big is beautiful but fat should not be in fashion. That statement, made by The Australian’s fashion editor Damien Woolnough last week, sparked fierce debate in The Weekly office. It started with Myer’s plus-size runway show at Fashion Festival Sydney, showcasing their size 16-24 clothes. While most of the models in the show were professional […]

The thought of buying clothes alongside my fruit and veg at my local supermarket isn’t exactly inspiring. Broccoli, check. Tampons, check. Toothpaste, check. A new swimsuit, check. Hardly lust-worthy is it? However — and this is a big however coming from someone who loves shopping at high-end boutiques, with their scented candles burning, the quiet […]

It has been 55 years since Yves Saint Laurent first sent pants down the runway, and while it has become de rigueur to see women wearing trousers to work, tuxedos out at night and jeans on the weekend, this season sees a new crop of pants take centre stage. Forget the usual classic straight legged […]

Kate Middleton has received yet another prestigious title, now recognised by Vanity Fair as one of the best dressed women in the world. The Duchess of Cambridge joined the magazine’s coveted International Best Dressed list following a succession of sartorial wins on her recent tour of North America with Prince William. The judging panel praised […]

To me, my mother had the perfect wedding dress. It was a dress I would have worn myself if I hadn’t grown-up to tower over her, and a dress that in my mind, no-one else could top, until Catherine Middleton wore a better version of it on her wedding day. When it comes to the […]

We may live in a country where our version of a ‘cold’ winter is usually warmer than springtime in Paris, but that doesn’t mean we don’t need (or want) a great coat to rug up in while we (mildly) freeze on nights out, or on the way to work in the morning. The three key […]