Combine the Hindu goddesses Lakshmi, Durga and Saraswati with the typical depictions of abuse, a graze here, a black eye there, an unmistakeable split lip and the result is a powerful message highlighting the plight of Indian domestic … [Read more...]
Front Row at NYFW SS14
Having kicked off late last week, New York Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week for Spring Summer 2014 is well underway. And as usual it's not just the fashion designers, models and muses working the cameras as the front rows have been packed full of … [Read more...]
Topshop’s New SS14 Show Space
Whilst Somerset House remains the focal point for London Fashion Week activities, Topshop's show space runs a close second in providing the most amazing and breathtaking of venues to showcase design talent - such as the no-longer-in-use Kings Cross … [Read more...]
Film Trailer: Runner Runner
The dreamy Mr. Timberlake returns to the big screen in the intense thriller, Runner Runner. Timberlake plays a Princeton college student who turns to online gambling to pay off $60,000 of tuition. After bottoming out, Richie Furst (Timberlake) … [Read more...]
Film Trailer: The Counsellor
To be honest, with a cast such as this - Michael Fassbender, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem and Brad Pitt - and directed by Sit Ridley Scott, we almost don't really mind what the plot entails, but nonetheless we'll tell you. The … [Read more...]
Ear Adornment
From the very moment that New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Punk:Chaos to Couture as its major exhibition for 2013, we just knew that come September - and the slew of autumn winter 2013 pieces - that studs, leather and anything with a … [Read more...]
Challenge Your Beauty Essentials: The Outcome
Having previously explained just how reliant we are on beauty essentials (body wash, toothpaste, deodorant), and yet just how little thought we put into their purchase, and indeed their efficacy, I agreed to put Sure Deodorant Maximum Protection … [Read more...]
Post-Summer Sunshine For Your Hair
I'd like to say that I'm a hair saint in the summer. That I laze beneath the shade of a parasol, smothered in factor 50 with my freshly coloured lengths, spritzed with sun protective conditioning treatment whipped up into a bun and hidden firmly … [Read more...]
Love, Marilyn
We remember Marilyn Monroe as a sex symbol of the past - a blonde haired beauty with a whimsical laugh. But fifty years after her death - two boxes of Marilyn's diaries were found - and her personal life was revealed. So who is Marilyn Monroe - the … [Read more...]
Clean and Lean Flat Tummy Meal Plans
For a surefire way to get a flat, toned and taut stomach, combine your Bodyism Flat Tummy Workout with a clean and lean diet plan free from caffeine, processed foods and refined sugars. Here's the ideal daily diet; Flat Tummy Breakfast A … [Read more...]
Battling The Bulge
Visible Mobile Line (or VML) is fast becoming the male counterpart to the equally-as-unsightly VPL. Just as women (well, most of them) are slowly coming to terms with the idea that (showing) less is more, men around the world seem have taken to … [Read more...]
Burberry’s British Style is Paris Bound
Yes, we have an ever-growing pool of amazing Brit fashion design talent here in the UK, but that doesn't (and probably won't ever) stop us from peeking intermittently across the channel at our Parisian counterparts for never-done but always-chic … [Read more...]
Cara’s New Musical Calling
Cara's chameleon ways appear to extend far beyond that of a clothes horse. Yes she gives good face, (and also some not so good face if you count Instagram selfies) but she's also got one hell of a voice. We may have guessed it, given her popstar … [Read more...]
Mixing It Up
It's not often that TV-made popstrels catch our eye (tending to get placed in the overly-manufactured file along with reality tv "stars") , but at last night's much-talked about One Direction premiere, it was Little Mix rather than the boys who took … [Read more...]
David Beckham, Loose and Lovely for Autumn
We're always pleased to see David Beckham, clothed or otherwise, so whilst the freshly released images of the glorious ex-footballer's David Beckham for H&M range feature just one single shot of DB in tight grey marl boxers, the rest are slightly … [Read more...]
Top Money Making Models
Barely a day goes by without one of their beautiful faces (and bodies) peering out at us from a billboard, advert or print campaign. And so it's unsurprising that the likes of Gisele, Miranda Kerr and Joan Smalls have topped Forbes list of the … [Read more...]
A Hint Of An Eyeshadow Tint
by Chrissy Iley I’m rather liking my chubby eye pencils from MUA. They are somewhat of a discovery. I like the way they can be applied with speed and ease. They are called Colour Blast Eye Shadow Tint, which is what they do – tint rather than … [Read more...]
Olivia Rubin
No doubt the first thing that springs to mind when you think of designer Olivia Rubin is the speech bubble. And so her current collaboration with Gigaset, the home phone specialists sits perfectly as they attempt to bring back the art of … [Read more...]
Kate Moss, The Ultimate Mannequin?
With a career that has spanned two decades and continues to ride high, Kate Moss in undoubtedly one of the most iconic models of our times. And so it seems apt therefore that artist Allen Jones has enveloped her in a bronze metal bodysuit, the … [Read more...]
Marks & Spencer’s Leading Ladies
Grace Coddington for Marks and Spencer. That's a phrase we never thought we'd hear. But then again Tracey Emin for Marks and Spencer doesn't slip so easily off the tongue either. But they are indeed two of the new, rather impressive, roster of women … [Read more...]
Shila, Tel Aviv
by Chrissy Iley I woke up thinking about tahini panna cotta with sesame crumbles and black cherry sorbet. It may well have been the best tahini panna cotta I’ve tasted – actually it’s the only tahini panna cotta. In Israel the tahini is not just … [Read more...]
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
Directed by David Lowery and staring our favorite crop-top wearing celebrity, Rooney Mara, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, is a western flick about a couple on a crime spree. The oh so Bonnie & Clyde action is packed with lassoes, horses, cowboy boots, … [Read more...]
JOBS Opens in the US Today
Starring a scarily uncanny Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs, Josh Gad as Steve Wozniak, JOBS tells the story of the legendary entrepreneur from college drop out to one of the most revered creatives of the 20th century. It only takes one person to start a … [Read more...]
Instagram Peek at Giselle for H&M Campaign
No wonder we're glued to our Instagram feeds. How could we possibly not be when that's where the most fabulous of insider info is divulged. Beyonce's amazing new crop alone is proof of just how relevant the social media tool is right now. And so it … [Read more...]