Category: Fashion and Beauty

  • To heat style or air dry your hair? That is the question

    To heat style or air dry your hair? That is the question

    Breadcrumb Trail Links Life Fashion & Beauty Shopping Essentials Style & Beauty Everything you need to know about air drying your hair. Get the latest from Aleesha Harris straight to your inbox Sign Up Published Sep 15, 2024  •  Last updated 50 minutes ago  •  6 minute read Nix heat styling tools in favour of air-dry…

  • How delicate beauty looks completed Roksanda’s Regency-inspired London Fashion Week show

    How delicate beauty looks completed Roksanda’s Regency-inspired London Fashion Week show

    Roksanda’s latest fashion show took a leaf out of the Bridgerton fashion playbook, combining Regency-inspired outfits with contemporary cuts and extravagant eveningwear. To complement the fashion, Dominic Skinner, the show’s key make-up artist and director of artistry at M.A.C Cosmetics, said the beauty looks were to be “flawless and wealthy, but with a rawness to…

  • Why settle for beige? Embrace the colours in your wardrobe and makeup

    Why settle for beige? Embrace the colours in your wardrobe and makeup

    I have always been a big fan of bright colours: romanticising the springtime meadows bursting with flamboyant plant life, to always opting for colourful mocktails at every party I attended — the brighter they were, the more palatable they seemed. <span class="lg-gallery " data-exthumbimage="https://www.thedailystar.net/sites/default/files/styles/small_1/public/images/2024/09/15/imgl5150.jpg" data-src="https://www.thedailystar.net/sites/default/files/styles/very_big_1/public/images/2024/09/15/imgl5150.jpg" data-sub-html=" Photo: Adnan Rahman “>

  • Why settle for beige? Embrace the rainbow in your wardrobe and makeup

    Why settle for beige? Embrace the rainbow in your wardrobe and makeup

    I have always been a big fan of bright colours: romanticising the springtime meadows bursting with flamboyant plant life, to always opting for colourful mocktails at every party I attended — the brighter they were, the more palatable they seemed. <span class="lg-gallery " data-exthumbimage="https://tds-images.thedailystar.net/sites/default/files/styles/small_1/public/images/2024/09/15/imgl5150.jpg" data-src="https://tds-images.thedailystar.net/sites/default/files/styles/very_big_1/public/images/2024/09/15/imgl5150.jpg" data-sub-html=" Photo: Adnan Rahman “>

  • Richard Quinn brings the ‘tradwife’ aesthetic to the runway in Fifties-inspired LFW collection

    Richard Quinn brings the ‘tradwife’ aesthetic to the runway in Fifties-inspired LFW collection

    Richard Quinn’s latest London Fashion Week collection showcased Fifties-inspired silhouettes, seemingly channelling the ‘tradwife’ aesthetic that has recently taken TikTok by storm. The trend glamorises 1950s suburbia through rose-tinted glasses – and while some aspects of it are somewhat controversial, Quinn’s designs firmly steered clear of any potentially murky areas. Instead, he zeroed in on…

  • Influencer Aditya Madiraju’s BTS Peek Of New York Fashion Week Prep

    Influencer Aditya Madiraju’s BTS Peek Of New York Fashion Week Prep

    Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Influencer Aditya Madiraju has garnered a following of over 1.4 million fans on Instagram and over 6.4 million likes on TikTok. Fans love his friendliness, makeup hacks and willingness to be vulnerable—including talking about feeling self-conscious before attending the fashion editor-, media- celebrity-packed presentations at New…

  • Richard Quinn Spring 2025 Ready-to-Wear Collection

    Richard Quinn Spring 2025 Ready-to-Wear Collection

    In a way, the 1930s ballroom at the Dorchester Hotel stands for every traditional ballroom in every super-luxury hotel in every city: venues for happy family celebrations, weddings, receptions, anniversaries, award ceremonies, what-have-you the world over. It was the perfect place for Richard Quinn to make his point about how his business has grown—quite hugely—to…

  • Ahluwalia questions the concept of ‘home’ in poignant London Fashion Week show

    Ahluwalia questions the concept of ‘home’ in poignant London Fashion Week show

    Priya Ahluwalia’s latest runway show knitted together homely British comforts with the rich tapestry of her Indian and Nigerian heritage. Ahluwalia is an independent designer known for her patchwork techniques, transforming deadstock denim into fresh fashion. Sustainability is central to the designer’s mission, which has won her the Leader of Change gong at the Fashion…

  • The Viral ‘Clavi Cut’ Just Got The Edgiest Update At LFW

    The Viral ‘Clavi Cut’ Just Got The Edgiest Update At LFW

    London Fashion Week never fails to feel like a fever dream. As the quickest stopover on the fashion month world tour, blink and you just might miss all of the action that takes place during the six-day schedule of shows, presentations, and parties. While the week’s lineup might be brief, the designers’ collections that debut…

  • All The High Fashion Nail Art Inspiration From The SS25 Runways

    All The High Fashion Nail Art Inspiration From The SS25 Runways

    Amelia Bell is the Senior Site Beauty Editor at ELLE UK, developing beauty strategy, writing, editing, and commissioning, and overseeing all beauty content for the site. Amelia has a particular interest in sustainable beauty practices, exploring the skin-mind connection, and decoding the latest treatments, tweakments and runway trends. She also has bylines for Women’s Health,…