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Miu Miu earrings Fun, fabulous, acrylic clip-on earrings, [pounds sterling]195, www.miumiu.com Giorgio Armani black velvet jacket Dress it up, dress it down - a black velvet jacket is the man's [...]

Christmas Gift Guide Yes, it's true: it's that time again. It may still seem a distant blip on the horizon but Christmas comes shockingly fast, and before you know it [...]

Trophy jackets are back? Fabulous! Midi skirts are the catwalk alternative to mini skirts? So elegant! Grown-up accessories - big jewellery, towering heels - are the new must-haves? What's not [...]

Ihate to shop for swimwear. Trawling stores for the tiniest piece of outerwear in order to expose parts of the body that most women spend 50 weeks of the year [...]

John Loring, the design director of the jeweller Tiffany, is the kind of man you want to sit next to at a dinner party. At 66, he is a fount [...]

The atmosphere is decidedly Euro at the Parisienne-inspired cafe-cum-bakery Aubaine in Knightsbridge; there's a lot of French being bandied about and many hot handbags perched on chairs (three Hermes, one [...]

What do I want from a shopping trip?' asks the impossibly chic designer Allegra Hicks in her Italian-accented English. 'I want to find something special. I like to be surprised, [...]

These days, fashion is rife with the second-hand. Anything more than two seasons old is dubbed 'vintage' and one person's cast-off is another's 'genius find'. With used clothes now so [...]

Last year, Duro Olowu designed a dress that also became The Dress. Empire- waisted, kimono-sleeved, Nigerian-inspired, offered in various limited edition combinations of vintage and modern prints, it was worn [...]

There is a school of thought that holds one should never wear a watch when going out for the evening. To wear one is to want to check it, you [...]

Here's a sartorial dilemma. You are dressing for an IMF dinner where you will sit alongside 120 chief executives and finance ministers. You've got a good suit - polished, well-cut, [...]

Technology should have signed the death-warrant for the finer things in a businessman's life. Why bother to invest in expensive arm candy when the basic timekeeping function of a wristwatch [...]

Until recently, my awareness of essential oils was limited to tea tree (to calm spots), citronella (to ward off mosquitoes) and lavender (to aid sleep). Then I spent a week […]

I love a real beauty tip, a proper, bona fide nugget that promises fabulous results from surprising ingredients. Good ones are rare, but if you ask an industry insider to […]

How often are fashionable clothes flattering? If you are tired of trying on clothes that look great in the glossies but don't translate to real life, a visit to Press […]

Must you take off your knickers for a Brazilian wax? Can you tell a beautician to pipe down during a treatment? If you socialise with your hairdresser, should you still […]

French women encourage their teenage daughters to start their beauty regimes early. If we are to believe what we read, a daily hot-then-cold shower to keep breasts firm and a […]

Should you be thinking of splashing out on a pair of new, mood-enhancing, life-changing shoes, cast aside notions of strappy, high-heeled strips of nothing that are torture to wear. Opt […]

Good-looking feet require effort, especially now, post-Sex and the City, when vertiginous heels are a necessity - even with denim. High heels wreak havoc on feet. The effects may be […]

My friend calls it the ice-rink effect. Her make-up does its job for nine months of the year, but during our short-lived summer, she works up a high gloss on […]

We dealt with waxing last week. This week, it's the best of the rest of the depilators. Most methods of hair removal suit a particular body part especially well. When […]

Waxing is wonderful. It guarantees a hair-free result for weeks and, done properly, it needn't be painful. Some areas of the body lend themselves to DIY waxing, others do not. […]

Shiny, dewy skin has had its day. Those past the first flush of youth should rejoice, for once you've noticed purple patches beneath your eyes, pimples on your chin or […]

I've always dreamed of being the kind of woman who goes for a twice-weekly blow-dry. As we all know, a good 'do' draws compliments in a way that a hastily […]

At last I have found a pair of truly magical shoes. They are rather less attractive than Dorothy's red sparkly pair, and they won't transport you to Kansas. But they [...]

It was lavender, now it's rose. Whether you are spraying a perfume, rubbing on a body oil, indulging in a pedicure or nurturing peace in a flotation tank, you can […]

Spheres, torsos, faces and gems - over the years, fragrance bottles have taken many guises. These days though, you can walk though any cosmetics hall and you'll see a plethora [...]

Don't let memories of shrivelled leaves and flower heads in dusty bowls taint your judgement. Like the scented candle before it, potpourri is making a comeback. Slatkin & Co, the […]

Teenagers love a trend. Right now, the coolest look is that of fashion label Diesel Kids. It's creative but un-put-together, bright but not cheesy-cheerful. In store for girls this autumn […]

Two women sit a few customers away from each other in Selfridges' Salt Beef Bar. One is skeletal, with a face-lift that renders her expressionless, and lips puffed out to [...]

When I got married last year, I set my heart on a couple of details - the dazzling diamante buckles and supremely pointy toes that appeared on a particular pair […]

A man's choosiness about his tie can be compared with a woman's obsession with her shoes. There is so much more to it than just colour. Size, for example. The [...]

Body lotions are personal. Everyone has a preference. Some want a light moisturiser - the kind that soaks into the skin instantly without transferring itself on to collars and cuffs. […]

In winter, exfoliating is a beauty chore that rarely gets done. Come summer, however, a weekly rub-down pays dividends. Buffed skin looks glowing, not dull, smooth, not scaly, and it […]

You can't underestimate the importance of hair,' says Glenda Stone, chief executive of Aurora Gender Capital Management, the London-based organisation that works with companies to attract and retain talented women. [...]

I had intended to shop for a pair of basic black trousers. I returned home, minus the trousers, with an altogether different purchase: two, small, top-of-the-cream-coloured melamine trays. While I […]

There are women who go to the gym and look as though they mean it. They arrive with a neat bag that doesn't bulge with excess, but holds just the […]

I have never been the proud possessor of superstar-straight, shoulder-length hair. Instead, mine drops to the jaw, then kinks and curls like a spaniel's ears. When I wear it down, […]

Salon madness is brought on by the thought of summer. The threat of having to wear a bikini makes waxing appointments, a scheduled buff-and-pummel and an intimate knowledge of the […]

Everyone clings to a maquillage moment. It might be frosted lipstick, stripes of blusher or a ring of perfectly applied kohl. Whatever make-up style you adhere to, you've probably been […]

A number of fashion designers, including Karl Lagerfeld, are advocating the eclectic look in autumn 1996. Formulaic dressing was absent from the autumn catwalks. Hemlines were not uniform, no colour seemed too putrid and no decoration too exaggerated. Individuality and natural style are the keys to success with the anything goes look. Vogue contributing editor Isabella Blow explains that the look is about showing a little originality. The fashion freedom of autumn 1996 allows people to wear whatever they like, in the way that they like it.

FEW events can kick-start a fad diet and an episode of self-loathing as quickly as that summer chore of shopping for a swimsuit. But don't despair -- though swimwear is skimpy, there are still plenty of options to work with, and so many ways to make more, or less, of what you've got. One golden rule applies to all figure types: sports swimwear should be kept strictly for sport. Its purpose is practical, not flattering, and it has the ability to make even healthy chests look low-lying and flat. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

AKAFTAN has been the number one beach musthave for the past ten years, seen everywhere from the Costa del Sol to the Caribbean and on everyone from Coleen McLoughlin to Elizabeth Hurley. Floaty, faded, scattered with sequins, bejangled with beads, it encapsulated the pseudo-hippy vibe that every self-styled Sienna Miller fashion-follower aimed to achieve on holiday. Which is what makes it look so wrong now. That hippy trip is over. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE Little Black Dress celebrates its 80th birthday this year -- but the catwalks for autumn-winter were full of them. Typical. No sooner have we got used to all things boho -- flounces, cheesecloth, clompy boots, Sienna Miller -- than fashion does a U-turn. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THERE'S a scene in the new Cameron Diaz chick flick, In Her Shoes, that spells out the main attraction of a fabulous pair of heels. Diaz's slim, sexy, party-loving character criticises her overweight, workaholic sister (Toni Collette) for having a ravishing shoe collection that remains in her wardrobe, box-fresh and unworn. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PILES of handbags. Box upon box of shoes. A drawer bursting with gloves and scarves, a crate dedicated to headgear and a stacked belt hanger. I stockpile accessories. And I'm not alone. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

GAP has a new poster girl, which means that anyone who has not yet heard of Joss Stone soon will. In the new, global, autumn campaign the 18-year-old soul singer from a small village in Devon, can be seen on television, in print ads and on giant billboards worldwide, belting out her favourite song, God Only Knows by The Beach Boys, and wearing her favourite jeans, Gap's Skinny Fit. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]