Anna Chesters The three new Chanel nail colours for spring What’s the story? In beauty terms, it all starts with Chanel No5. It is the best-selling fragrance in the world. The world! That’s a lot of people all going around smelling the same. It started life back in 1921 when Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel was...
Sophie Wilkinson Coco Chanel, who may have inadvertently ‘invented’ sunbathing. Photograph: Alex Stewart Sasha/Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis In the millennia preceding the industrial revolution, pallor was popular within the upper classes, hinting at a noble life of leisure spent indoors. Dark skin was associated with serfdom and toiling in fields all day. Using poisonous whiteners to...
Eva Wiseman Getting fresh: fake it with fig. Photograph: Alamy What fig fragrances do is make things smell like the outdoors is meant to. The outdoors is meant to smell of wet wood and things cooked on fires. Instead it smells of Red Bull and dirty hair. So you fake it with fig. It’s...
Sali Hughes ‘Men generally seek weightless, quick-drying moisturisers with no hint of oiliness.’ Photograph: Rui Faria for the Guardian My first journalism job was as grooming editor of a men’s magazine. Since then, I’ve attended countless men’s skincare launches, and no amount of pseudo-scientific marketing waffle has managed to convince me that the structure...
Invisible Woman Katie Price, Newsnight guest. Photograph: WireImage I’d like to have been a fly on the wall at the planning meeting for Newsnight on 7 February. “We’re doing a studio discussion, Mr Paxman. Oh, and by the way it’ll be 15 women who’ve received PIP breast implants; the health minister; Naomi Wolf. And...
Anna Chesters A few picks from UK skincare brand Simple What’s the story? Launched in 1960 with a perfume-free, colour-free soap, UK skincare brand Simple has to this day continued in the manner it started. The idea is, well, simple – don’t add any unnecessary nasty stuff and you won’t upset sensitive skin. This...
Luisa Dillner Moisturisers contain humectants that attract water and keep it in the skin. Photograph: Alamy There’s so much hype around moisturisers that you have to wonder how good they really are. How can a potion revive skin that has been battered by cold winds and dried up from the central heating? As we...
From nail varnish to jewellery, sunglasses to running shoes, here are the little extras that will make an outfit
From nail varnish to jewellery, sunglasses to running shoes, here are the little extras that will make an outfit
Must I have the new must-haves? 15 Oct 2005 Jess Cartner-Morley: The fairy godmothers of fashion have waved their magic wands once more, sprinkling a sugar coating of desirability on to a motley crew of must-haves.
