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Do you sometimes feel that you are too busy to put enough effort into looking good every day in the way you would like to? If there are too many things to get it all done each day then you might find that its your appearance that suffers most. Thankfully, there are some simple tips that can help you to look better than ever before …

A lot of people spend countless hours thinking about their gym performance and ways to improve it. They learn about things like proper sleeping schedule, adequate diet and lifestyle changes that can have impact on one’s athletic endeavors. On the other hand, there is one thing you are not very likely to hear but which may bear great significance when it comes to it. We …

If I say “tea dress” what do you say? Bourton-on-the-Water? Acorn Antiques? Barbara Pym? Never in a million years? Floral dresses were so over, over, over for such a long time, it can be hard to get one’s head around the fact that they are now straight-down-the-line zeitgeist. That’s right, sprig-print dresses, which used to be seen on little girls and very old ones and …

The fashion pack has its own set of style rules. Heels? Only with stirrup pants. Dresses? Baggy What do you wear on the front row in Fashion Week? It’s probably easier to tell you what to avoid. A full-length ballgown, a swimming costume, anything remotely Village People or a £10,000 crimson fur coat liberated for one night only from the fashion cupboard of whatever magazine …

When a parade of male models appeared on a catwalk wearing leather dresses, knee-length boots, and frilly shorts, some members of the press could barely stifle their chuckles. “At J.W. Anderson the humiliation of the models was made truly complete,” wrote a critic about the designer’s Spring 2013 collection. “One blonde looked so down in the dumps it’s a wonder he didn’t tear the offending …

Meet your new Draper — a big-budget TV series set in a postwar Paris couture house. By Benji Wilson The long road to the unveiling of The Collection, Amazon’s new drama about a family of couturiers in postwar Paris, began at the Victoria and Albert Museum. In 2007, its exhibition The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947-1957 was a breakout hit. One of …

We report from the front row at London Fashion Week to bring you the 12 trends you’ll really want to wear next spring Exhibit one. The ridiculousness of London Fashion Week. A preposterously dressed young woman waiting outside a show she hasn’t seen, to have her photo taken by a photographer she is either friends with or paying or both, in the hope that she …

The Barbican’s exploration of vulgarity in high fashion is classy, serious — and far too kind to celebrity culture Vulgarity is in the eye of the beholder. One man’s leopard-print leotard is another’s monochrome minidress; the loud person standing on the table at the party might believe they are the life and soul, while the wallflower in the corner is quietly judging them. As much …

This week I’m wearing… a quilted jacket I haven’t yet decided whether it makes life easier or more difficult that clothes that used to have nothing to do with fashion, which used to exist in spite of fashion, are suddenly its very beating heart. Take what I like to call the walking coat, for example. It might be a down jacket, like this one, or …

They’re the power brokers behind the industry’s hottest brands If politics is anything to go by, this decade is shaping up to be one that’s defined by soft power. As Theresa May and quite possibly Hillary Clinton join a cohort of international leaders that includes Angela Merkel, Nicola Sturgeon and Christine Lagarde, it’s starting to look very much as though women are about to rule …