fashion
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The cold-shoulder party dressPreviews of next year’s collections make it clear that it will rule 2017 as well
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The best copper clothes for men of all agesWarming tones of copper and brown were a big catwalk trend for AW16. Mix with off-white to keep the look fresh
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Phyllis Posnick's styling for Vogue – in picturesUS Vogue’s top fashion editor works with photographers to inject style with sci-fi and fantasy.
shopping
talking points
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Blue Velvet's enduring look: light and shade – and the odd gas maskDavid Lynch’s classic is in cinemas again to celebrate its 30th anniversary. And in case you’d forgotten, it has a style all of its own
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Brigitte Bardot: the style icon – in picturesDiscovered by a magazine editor as a teenager, Brigitte Bardot became one of the most iconic faces, models and actors of the 1950s and 1960s and a muse for Dior, Balmain and Pierre Cardin
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Bones – fashion’s new toxic obsession?A recent fashion article advises women to wear low-cut dresses to flaunt their clavicles. What next? Miniskirts to show show off your femurs?
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Why everything in fashion is getting biggerFrom the catwalks to the sky at night, everything is getting bigger and wider, is it a way of comforting ourselves during an age of uncertainty?
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Vetements' Lotta Volkova: 'Conventionally beautiful things are...boring'Stylist Lotta Volkova is the brains, the muse, the collaborator and the model of choice for Vetements, the cult eastern European designers currently shaping fashion. Meet the woman of the moment
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Classic chic v sportwear: this season's style swapWhat happens when a political journalist swaps clothes with a fashion editor?
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Chloé's Clare Waight Keller: 'Having a muse galvanises me'Chloé is renowned for producing great looks which straddle the line between boyish and ultra-feminine, so when creative director Clare Waight Keller stumbled across a collection of photographs of a solo female motorbike trip across the middle east in the 1970s, she knew she had found her muse
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Beauty looks for A/W 16 - in picturesBrittle and brash, with Guy Bourdin-style black eyes and red lips, this season Saint Laurent’s beauty came straight from an 80s nightclub
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Platforms are back: men's shoes reach new heightsJazzy, kinky, sexy. This season’s catwalk footwear for men puts a welcome, out-there take on the mundane boots most guys trudge about in
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Editor's picks: sporty style - in picturesTeam your hoodie or quilted jacket with leather or cashmere to take the athleisure trend to the luxe sportswear level
news
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H&M's Kenzo launch causes website to crashWhile online shoppers were frustrated, fashionistas who queued at the London flagship store had a much better experience – with the logo jackets and pinafore dresses proving especially popular
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'Provocative' new exhibition to reveal his inspirationsNorthern Irish fashion designer is set to oversee gender based art show which will connect the dots between modernism and fashion
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people
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Meet Dr Pimple Popper, celebrity dermatologistThanks to her bewilderingly addictive zit-busting YouTube films, Dr Sandra Lee has 2 million Instagram followers, clients across the world and her own acne cream
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'If you don't have a great body, how do you make a body look great?'The supermodel dishes up some wisdom with her revolutionary underwear line
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Frank Ocean’s mum: ‘He’s so proud of what I’ve done’Katonya Breaux left her job in construction to make suncream that works for all skin colours – which is why she didn’t have time to lend her vocal talent to her son’s international smash hit ...
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The lady with a beard: ‘If you’ve got it, rock it!’At 25, Harnaam Kaur holds the world record as the youngest woman to have a full beard. For years, she was bullied. Now she’s an Instagram star
the shows
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DKNY confirms the future of fashion: the boilersuitFormer Public School designers riff on Ghostbusters for their eye-catching New York finale, in the brand’s first show since it changed hands in July
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Mary Quant talks about her first job – fashion archive, 197716 December 1977: ‘I was paid £2.50 a week to work from 8.30 to 5.30 and I spent the first three months ironing veils’, the fashion icon says
regulars
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Sali Hughes on beautySali Hughes on beautyBeauty: Christmas gifts for him indoorsMen love a quality grooming gift, provided it’s not of the novelty variety
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you may have missed
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Fisherman fashion – making waves in menswearHipster fashion is sunk so designers have trawled the workwear trend and come up with a new look – think Aran jumpers, wide-legged trousers and rolled up beanies. But what do real fishermen make of it?
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Grace Coddington: the woman who made fashion artOver 30 years she created some of US Vogue’s most exciting and influential photo spreads, but now Grace Coddington has stepped aside. Is this a turning point for the industry?
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Catwalkies: Cara Delevingne's dog removed from the runwayThe supermodel brought her dog, Leo, to Karl Lagerfeld’s Chanel front row – where he was removed before the show started. But what was going through his canine mind?
the big picture
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Look good in leather – in picturesWhether it’s a classic biker jacket or a chic skirt, it’s time to channel your inner rock star
Sali Hughes on beauty Christmas gifts for him indoors