Fashion

Wear your food and eat it too: The McDonald's clothing range will be available to purchase online.

McDonald's launches its own fashion line

Livia Gamble   McDonald's revealed the new range this week at the McWalk fashion show in Sweden.

Undressed: an exhibition of 350 years of underwear in fashion showing at The Powerhouse Museum.

Functional to seductive: 350 years of underwear

Lisa Visentin   From the functionality of billowing bloomers to the skimpy satin numbers of the present day, the Undressed exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum offers a peek inside the boudoirs of women and men across 350 years of evolving fashions in underwear. Below are some of the collection's feature pieces.

Derek and Hansel from Zoolander star in the new Valentino advertising campaign.

Zoolander stars in Valentino's new fashion campaign

Jenna Clarke   Not content with crashing Valentino's Paris Fashion Week show to announce the Zoolander sequel, Derek and Hansel now appear in campaign-style images for the luxury Italian fashion house.

Mela Purdie crepe double-knit riding jacket, $409.

Get the look: White of way

Strong suit: Heidi Klum does white all right.

Head to toe is the way to go

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge is also the Princess of Polish.

How Kate Middleton makes ASOS look expensive

Beauty

Ariana Miyamoto.

Why some critics think Japan’s Miss Universe contestant isn’t Japanese enough

Peter Holley   By most of the rest of the the world's standards, Ariana Miyamoto is thoroughly Japanese.

Transgender teen Jazz Jennings stars in a campaign for Johnson & Johnson.

Transgender teen signed to skincare campaign

Michael Koziol   In a sign that corporate conceptions of what constitutes beauty may be slowly widening, a major brand has signed a transgender teenager to a skincare campaign.

Paolo Ballesteros uses makeup, coloured contact lenses and wigs to transform into some of 2015's biggest stars.

Makeup artist's uncanny impersonations of celebrities

Mary Ward   His unbelieveable Instagram pictures made headlines in October, and now Filipino makeup artist is back.

Squeaky clean? It might not be good for your skin.

How often should we shower? Much less often than you think

Jared Leto arrives at the 2015 Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills in February.

Has Leto lopped off his locks?

David Walliams takes on Cara Delevingne and Cindy Crawford in a new advert for Rimmel's Red Nose Day campaign.

Cara and Cindy look a bit ... different

Wellbeing

The new apple? Quinoa.

A daily bowl of quinoa to live longer?

Sarah Berry   An apple a day is so passe.

Kayla Itsines

Who is Kayla Itsines?

Mary Ward   Who is Kayla Istines and why is she at war with someone who eats bananas?

Bacon and eggs for better health? hold up.

Fat and protein no panacea to portliness

Sarah Berry   High fat, high protein diets are popular, but are they the antidote we've been looking for?

MIND diet: Grains, vegetables and healthy fats are your brain's friends.

This diet could be key to reducing Alzheimer's risk

A contestant celebrates her weight loss on the most recent season finale of <i>The Biggest Loser</i> US.

Does losing weight really make you happy?

Smoothie operator: Kicking off your day with protein can help keep off the pounds.

Making a meal out of smoothies: just add grains and beans

Home & Style

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio poses for a photograph at the British Academy of Film and Arts (BAFTA) awards ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London last year.

Leonardo DiCaprio is renting out his Palm Springs abode

Livia Gamble   Leonardo DiCaprio's grandiose Palm Springs apartment can be rented for a king's ransom.

Make your home office a place of calm and creativity.

Make your home office homely

Megan Blandford   If you have the freedom to work from home, make it an office of inspiration.

Green cleaners.

'Green' cleaning products may not be what they seem

Alana Schetzer   Consumers buying products marked "green" or "natural" may think they are doing the right thing for the environment, but scientists have discovered a link between many common ingredients and risks to human health.

Danger alert: Stay away from mouldy nuts.

Pantry staples: How long can you keep food in your cupboards?

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Allergy risk may be tied to how you wash your dishes

Five-second rule: foods high in sugar and salt are safer to eat after being dropped on the floor.

Five second rule: Four times it's not okay to eat food off the floor

Life

Sleeping more than eight hours a night was linked with a 30 per cent greater risk of early death, an analysis of research found.

Sleeping more than eight hours linked to death, stroke

Michael Koziol   A new study finds adults who get more than eight hours a night are at risk of sleeping themselves into an early grave.

Hinge profiles show a user's workplace, education, height and hobbies.

'Classier Tinder' launches in Sydney

Mary Ward   It's being marketed as a "classier Tinder"

Krystal Barter, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt at the Unbroken premiere in Sydney.

The Australian woman who counselled Angelina Jolie

Jenna Clarke   Prior to her ovariectomy Angelina Jolie requested a meeting with fellow BCRA 1 sufferer and Pink Hope founder Krystal Barter.

How many men with prove to be Tough Mothers?

Challenging men to be mum for a weekend

Author Peter Bregman says the 'four-second rule' will help you break your bad habits.

Four seconds to change your world

Fetuses of mothers who smoked (top row) moved their mouths and touched their faces more frequently.

Smoking while pregnant may harm baby's central nervous system: study