Leah McLaren

This month, I'm abstaining from abstinence

Increasingly, we live in a culture that promotes the January detox as a balm to body and soul, but really it is a sign of our increasingly conflicted relationship with alcohol.

Vote

Jennifer Lopez: Hit or miss?

We do the trendspotting each week, then let you have your say

Russell Smith
Advice

What is the least painful way to shed a beard?

To shed a full beard, just clip and shave

The year ahead

Fashion and design trends 2010

Globe Style checks out the coolest offerings, from cute crop tops to chic Canadiana

Grooming trends

Welcome to the new barbershop

Now, guys can enjoy a shave, a manicure and even a game of foosball under one roof. Grandpa wouldn't recognize this barbershop

Q&A

Designer Prabal Gurung on his 'overnight' success

It was a Tweet from Demi Moore that made Hollywood flock to Prabal Gurung's sharp dresses. Amy Verner talks to the rising star about his quick rise to the top

Decoder

Fashion decoder: chunky men's watches on women

'Men's watches have traditionally represented taste, class and luxury'

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Style
The best (and worst) in fashion and design from 2009

We went Gaga over a certain Lady last year, but overheated Dubai’s dubious excess left us cold

Decoding the decade
Style icon of the decade: Sarah Jessica Parker

What came first for Sarah Jessica Parker: a natural flare for decade-defining style or the role of sartorial star Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City?

Parker recently told Glamour magazine that this crinkly metallic Nina Ricci dress, one of the last to be designed by Olivier Theyskens, 'weighed less than a quarter of an ounce.' Wispy fabric aside, the style is consistent with several other SJP frocks: no sleeves and low necklines.
In Pictures
GQ Britain's Best Dressed for 2009

Twilight's Robert Pattinson takes a bite out of the competition to be named GQ U.K.'s sharpest dresser

Trends, deconstructed
Decoder: Tattoo prints

Tattoo chic has made a big splash in mainstream circles

Madonna (pictured with her son, David, and daughter, Lourdes) wears an Ed Hardy tee in Malawi earlier this year.
Knockoff
The look for less: little black dress

There is something simple – and constructed – about these dresses that separates them from other boob tubes

Photo gallery
Toronto Fashion Week

New digs in the city's west end and a new energy gave this year's shows a hit of adrenaline

Metallics and sequins added glitz to Pink Tartan's girly basics. The seven-year-old label has developed a loyal following.
Video
Inside a Globe Style photo shoot

Inside a Globe Style photo shoot

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Cross-border shopping calculator

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