After a week of gaffes, No 10 calls in the Happy Mondays singer who helps to launch a T-shirt campaign to banish ‘pastygate’• In pictures: Ryder’s celebrity friends help launch the ‘We’re All Eating This Together’ T-shirt campaign In a move that will astonish both critics and supporters, David...
Alexandra Shulman tells how she copes with panic attacks and won’t compromise with celebrity power Her face has launched a thousand magazines and sold even more, but Jennifer Aniston will not be appearing on the cover of Vogue in Britain any time soon. Vogue‘s editor Alexandra Shulman has revealed...
Star of Clueless Alicia Silverstone has caused a stir by posting video of herself feeding her baby son Bear mouth-to-mouth with pre-masticated food. Aah or ugh?
Billed as the ‘new Bowie’, Jobriath exploded onto the glam rock scene in the 1970s – and then disappeared. Marc Almond salutes a personal hero Britain in the early 1970s was going through a depression: the naive dreams and optimism of the 1960s had soured and evaporated; life was...
Here is my handy guide for celebrities intent on Doing Serious Things. Cameron and Penn, please take note It’s not easy being a celebrity. Oh sure, there’s the money, the cheap self-validation, the sycophants, the freebies, the lackeys … Sorry, where was I? Oh yes, it really isn’t easy...
Modern fairy stories – as told by the Mail and the Mirror – have found a new hero. It’s the story of a lonely ginger prince and his fight to find his princess … I have this vision that one day I’ll be sitting reading bedtime stories from MailOnline’s sidebar to...
It’s budget week, so what better time for billionaire Sir Philip Green to fly 150 celebrity guests to Mexico for a wildly extravagant party? The late John Mortimer famously divided the world into cavaliers and roundheads. Today, let us divide it into people who would attend Topshop boss Philip...
It’s budget week, so what better time for billionaire Sir Philip Green to fly 150 celebrity guests to Mexico for a wildly extravagant party? The late John Mortimer famously divided the world into cavaliers and roundheads. Today, let us divide it into people who would attend Topshop boss Philip...
When Alexa Chung gets dressed, the high street cashes in. Eva Wiseman heads to Central Saint Martins to meet the money spinners and starmakers of the British fashion industry In the print room at Central Saint Martins, it’s as if I’m watching a high-budget dramatisation of how fashion works. To...
Guy Debord predicted our distracted society | John Harris
The Society of the Spectacle offered in 1967 an eerily accurate portrait of our image-saturated, mediated times “In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all life presents as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.” With echoes of the...
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