Jean Luc Godard's muse Anna Karina on why she refused to star in 'Breatless'

We are at the British Film Institute on the South Bank in London, in a greenroom replete with mid-century Lucite orb lamps and potted palms. It is strange to be surrounded by renderings of a period in cinema immortalised by the woman sat in front me  – actress, singer and poster girl of the French New Wave, Anna Karina, now 75 years old. Continue Reading...

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Rihanna and Kanye West kick off autumn/winter 2016 shows, but who cares about the clothes?

New York kicks off the global womenswear calendar for autumn/winter 2016, and its fashion week started on 10 February, but with what? A glut of shows proposing disparate messages, an overwhelming mêlée that, hopefully, will settle down once we lurch back across the Atlantic and begin to unpick everything. But perhaps it won’t. Continue Reading...

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Super Bowl food: A guide to making scientifically perfect nachos for the big game

Even if you have zero interest in sportsball, Super Bowl Day is a great day. Everyone loves snacks, and the best snacks are the ones that are the worst for you, and there's no day so dedicated to the consumption of abundant unhealthy appetizers as this coming Sunday. Who needs a full meal of gluttony? Bah! Spend all day grazing and eat like five times as much. Continue Reading...

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Gucci to hold fashion show at Westminster Abbey

For more than a millennium some of the greatest figures in British history have walked its aisles and transepts, many to be married, or later to shuffle into the next place via its raised tombs: Newton, Darwin, Chaucer, Wilberforce. Continue Reading...

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How to make a pancake, according to the experts

Everyone loves pancakes and wants to know the secret of cooking them. And that partly depends on whether you’re after the thin, crêpe-like European style or the thicker ones more popular in North America as each requires a different approach. Continue Reading...

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They’re back! Top designers rescue flares from dustbin of fashion history

 

In the latest round of menswear shows for autumn/winter 2015, which took place in Milan and Paris last week, a new trouser shape was in evidence – or at least one we haven’t seen for a long while. Flares – the 1970s classic which had apparently been consigned to the dustbin of fashion history – are back. Continue Reading...

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Burberry's ditching of seasonal catwalks signals fashion shakeup

 Burberry has announced it is to abandon the traditional seasonal approach to its catwalk collections in a move thatcould herald a major shakeup for the entire fashion industry.
From September, all of the clothes featured in Burberry’s runway shows will be available to buy immediately, instore and online, a significant departure from the conventional model in which clothes appear on catwalks four months before they go on sale.Continue Reading...

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