Social media marketing manager Sarah Vaeth (42) from Oregon, USA, who currently wears a corset for 20-hours each day, first tried on her first corset in 2012 in the hopes of correcting her very poor posture, but she had no idea that this would start her fascination with corsets, as she now proudly wears an […]

“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand,” Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote in Frankenstein, exactly 200 years ago. That haunting mystery still beats in the souls of a few special young women today, drawn to a stylish if slightly unhinged witchy-poo trip to the dark side, a penchant for the […]

Caesy Oney is trying to change the conversation around Portland’s fashion industry. As the home of athleisure titans like Nike, Adidas and Under Armor, Portland is often thought of in the apparel world as the Silicon Valley of tactical fleece and astronaut jogging pant innovation. But with Last Heavy, the new line he created with […]

The one problem with living in the Southern Hemisphere (proximity to Europe aside)? The agonising wait we always endure before we can dabble in the new season fashion trends everyone else on Instagram has been wearing for months. But spring is finally here – and with it, the chance to try our hand at the […]

Five years ago, Emma Stone was asked if she’d use a two-week break in the middle of shooting The Amazing Spider-Man 2 to play a role in Birdman. She accepted, but with misgivings. “I wanted to [do it] very badly but was nervous about what that would be [like],” she told an audience at the […]

The Venice Film Festival took flight yesterday with two high-profile pictures destined for year-end awards competition. “The Favourite” is a glam, sexually outrageous English period piece about warring women (Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz) seeking power and position from an often infantile and seriously ill Queen Anne (Olivia Colman). “Roma” jumps back to 1970 as Mexico’s […]

Los Angeles is famous for its movie premieres. In recent years, the vitality of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and the Los Angeles Opera Company have also attracted their share of premieres. Still, I was excited to attend the world premiere of a ballet, Isadora, inspired by the life of Isadora Duncan, choreographed by Vladmir […]

This autumn, looking as if you have a deep understanding of Bauhaus and brutalism is only a pair of heels away here is a phrase popping up as frequently as oligarchs’ penthouses on the London skyline. The expression “dressing like an architect” has become the ultimate fashion compliment. People who wear Prada, or Marni, or […]

There’s no one quite like Becky Sharp. Coming of age in the heyday of the Austen heroine (typically good, kind, humble and determined to do the right thing), William Makepeace Thackeray’s arch, cynical and self-serving Becky provides quite the contrast. Her wardrobe gives her away: the colours are a little too bold, the jewels too […]