As anyone who has been faced with racks and racks of brightly coloured T-shirts while its hailing outside can attest, fashion seasons move in mysterious ways.
"A fragrance that couldnt exist in a bottle that shouldnt exist..." reads the press release for the new scent from Comme des Garçons, in characteristically opaque style.
We Love: Santal MassoïaThis, the 10th fragrance in the Hermès Hermèssence edition, blends sandalwood with rare Massoia wood to create a warm and somewhat sweet scent. £150 for 100ml, Hermès boutiques
All of us that are accustomed to the thats-great-but-whats-next mindset of fashion tend to see a "trend" as something that you read about one week, feebly try to replicate the next, and talk ...
1. Midnight milk soak£18, LifeNK, spacenk.comA warm milky drink is recommended as a soothing sleep aid, so take the treatment a step further with this sugar-based soak that will have you nodding off ...
Certain occasions in life prompt aesthetic-identity crises. The most severe is ones wedding, when everyone comes over all taupe-eyeshadow-and-chignon, but that is of mercifully limited occurrence. Ne...
The make-up
It is 10 years since Peter Jensen arrived on the fashion scene. The designer graduated from the Central Saint Martins MA fashion course with distinction in 1999 and set up his own label two years lat...
We Love: Bear necessitiesPudseys had the same look since 1983, so it was high time for a makeover.
"Shes very beautiful. But she looks like she might kill you," says Gareth Pugh of model Alla Kostromichova, the lovely if admittedly somewhat intimidating face of his soon-to-launch, limited-...
You cant beat a good collaboration, particularly when both sides are close to a fashion followers heart.
Thank heaven for little girls, for if it were not for them the much-loved Parisian label Lanvin would not exist.
1. CK One Shock£23, 50ml edt, nationwideCalvin Klein has kept ahead of the market for fragrances. Shock, the latest offering, has notes of clementine and cucumber.
Fashion: Now the shoes on the other foot
Where, once, a generous figure was physical proof of a comfortable lifestyle, we now aspire above all to look well-rested. A fresh face implies you were not waiting for the washing machine to finish ...
On a chilly autumn day in November 1970, my mother sat by the front-room window of our semi-detached house in Zig Zag Road, in the Liverpool suburb of West Derby, sewing a dress for my two-year-old s...
The bag
Richard Mortimer lives in Clapham, which may come as a surprise, seeing as he has built a career on being the personality – the pulse even – behind the east London party scene.
"The colour red just got some support from the colour blue," read a story in Womens Wear Daily last Tuesday, which is WWD speak for the fact that jeweller Tiffany is backing shoemaker Christi...
By the pricking of several perfectly manicured thumbs, something wicked this way comes – to a shop near you, in fact. Hallowe’en is here and with it the opportunity for fashionable types to kit thems...
We Love: Pyrus & Simeon Farrar To celebrate the show of his work in the basement gallery below its Soho store, Pyrus has launched a limited edition of screenprinted T-shirts by Farrar, continuing his...
1. Detox face mask Foaming mask, enriched with almond extract and amino acids, purifies the skin, lifting dirt, oil and make-up from clogged pores. Price: £34, Malin + Goetz, Space NK
We Love: Pyrus & Simeon FarrarTo celebrate the show of his work in the basement gallery below its Soho store, Pyrus has launched a limited edition of screenprinted T-shirts by Farrar, continuing ...
As the wind whips up and radiators go on, skin can feel ravaged and raw - soothe yourself with these facial treats.
Fashion: The year of the Goat
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