Features

27 years of London Fashion Week - in pictures

Wednesday, 16 February 2011

London Fashion Week returns on Friday for the twenty-seventh year running.

Gender-blending: Sexual ambiguity in fashion

Monday, 14 February 2011

Designers' fixation with sexual ambiguity is reaching new extremes, with an explosion of frank and unsettling images of androgyny. Is there beauty in blurring the boundaries, or has it gone too far?

High street heroes: A new line-up at Debenhams

Monday, 14 February 2011

Debenhams was first to offer designer collaborations, in 1993, and now there's a fresh new line-up of young names at the store. Harriet Walker reports

The Fashion Audit: 14/02/2011

Monday, 14 February 2011

What we love, we're not sure about, we're buying and we can't wait for...

Ready To Wear: Fashion shows are becoming ever-more exclusive affairs

Monday, 14 February 2011

The new collections are currently in full flow and if, in recent times, the overriding rule has been to eschew intimacy in favour of high-profile, blockbuster presentation – generating as much publicity as possible being fashion's Holy Grail – that may be about to change.

Agenda: Valentine lingerie; Simone Rocha; Patrick Wolf; The Big Sleep Out; Dan Zanes & Friends

Sunday, 13 February 2011

Susannah Frankel: We fetishise the female form, and then condemn the wish to 'improve' it

Saturday, 12 February 2011

Velazquez’s tautly muscular Rokeby Venus and Ingres’s fulsome Grande Odalisque are exaggerated, hyper-real and not even remotely natural

Natalie Massenet: The queen of e-tail

Saturday, 12 February 2011

The pioneering founder of Net-a-Porter transformed online fashion by giving women exactly what they want. With the imminent launch of her website for men, she might just do it all over again

On Me Back, Arms, Stomach, Chest and Neck, Son

Saturday, 12 February 2011

With tattoos of four Danish kings on his torso, Liverpool's Daniel Agger has taken the crown for football's most elaborate body art. But, as Rob Hastings discovers, he follows a tradition (not always successful) of players who use their skin as a blank canvas

Ethical jewellery: Raise the gold standard

Wednesday, 9 February 2011

Ethically-sourced food, furniture and clothing have become commonplace in British shops. Jeweller Stephen Webster argues that our baubles should be too