Fashion, beauty, design, personal style, independent brands and visual trends shaping contemporary lifestyle culture.
Style after 40 does not need a rescue plan. It also does not arrive with a universal set of rules about hemlines, colour,...
ByStuart CallaghanJuly 27, 2026Costume design does more than make characters look convincing. Clothing helps establish period, class, occupation, mood and personality before a character says very...
ByFiona CarrellJuly 23, 2026Cottagecore turns rural life into a visual language: floral dresses, old kitchens, wildflowers, bread, sewing, baskets and the suggestion of a slower daily...
ByStuart CallaghanJuly 22, 2026There is no single Gen Z wardrobe. That is the first useful correction to most discussions of the subject. Younger shoppers may mix...
ByStuart CallaghanJuly 17, 2026Secondhand clothing has moved well beyond the old divide between charity-shop bargain hunting and specialist vintage collecting. In Britain today, the market stretches...
ByStuart CallaghanJuly 7, 2026London street style is difficult to summarise because the city does not dress as one place. What appears in Shoreditch, Peckham, Soho or...
ByStuart CallaghanJuly 2, 2026A new cultural venue opens in Durham on 22 August, bringing contemporary art, local history and a restored museum building back into public...
August 22, 2026Amid the noise of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, a small jewellery exhibition in Stockbridge is asking visitors to look at landscape in a...
August 9, 2026Small talk is easy to underestimate because, by definition, very little appears to happen. A remark about the weather, a few words with...
July 29, 2026Community gardens are easy to romanticise. A few raised beds, a shed and a line of beans can quickly become shorthand for neighbourliness,...
July 28, 2026Style after 40 does not need a rescue plan. It also does not arrive with a universal set of rules about hemlines, colour,...
July 27, 2026Home baking does not need to be described as a revival, a form of therapy or an antidote to modern life to be...
July 26, 2026