Visitors can get up close and personal with Meghan Markle’s wedding dress as a new exhibition opens at Windsor Castle. Rachel Marie Walsh meets the curator.

Why is our idea of how a woman should look so inherently tied to the preferred feminine? asks the newly-shorn Geraldine Walsh.

At the Golden Globes, the all-black red carpet took the spotlight off style as actresses dressed not to stand out but to stand together in solidarity against harassment, abuse and inequality, writes Carolyn Moore.

A user on Reddit’s r/Ireland feed has discovered a weird quirk on Google.

Sport never fails to get people talking.

New York and Ireland are inextricably linked. Marjorie Brennan talks to five creative people about their time there.

 

"The best advice I ever got is to try to live in the moment. The past is gone, we can’t get it back."

Furniture designer Eileen Gray was one of Ireland’s most pioneering women, yet most of us have never even heard of her. That’s all set to change now Orla Brady is playing her in a new movie, writes Esther McCarthy.

Monday, midday. I am walking to work with my head lowered, just to be on the safe side.

Kevin Pilley takes a cane-twirling, splay-footed stroll through Charlie Chaplin’s former Switzerland home, which has become a museum to the great man.

Shaved heads, micro-fringes and bowl cuts — can the latest rebellious looks from the catwalks translate to real life? Katie Wright talks to the experts.

Men of the world, take note – the polo neck is back. From Drake to Bond, there’s no cooler fashion statement, writes Troy Patterson.       

It was the year when the most expensive bag ever sold - a Hermes Birkin for a whooping €200,000. Corina Gaffey looks at our obsession with designer arm candy    

You don’t have to be Edie Sedgwick or Twiggy to rock a mini, says PaulaBurns, who reckons minis are the jewel of the fashion world.

Thousands of creams, serums, and other beautifying concoctions are launched every year, not to mention mountains of make-up and fragrances, each clamouring for space in our shopping baskets.

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Loved by camera-ready celebrities, contouring is supposed to sculpt the face into a symmetrical ideal of beauty. So what does TV3’s Anna Daly think?

The western world’s obsession with thigh gaps, concave stomachs and thinspiration isn’t over yet but there’s a definite more towards exercise and nutrition rather than starvation, writes Suzanne Harrington.

GEORGE Best is sitting up in a hotel bed with a gorgeous blonde beside him, when the waiter arrives with a bottle of vintage champagne. The waiter looks at the former soccer star and asks: “George, where did it all go wrong?”

Rebel without a cause James Dean has been transformed into a hipster with a tattoo in an art project bringing some of Hollywood’s biggest stars into the 21st century.

WE FIRST catch a glimpse of the Seabank Bistro last summer — the sun is beaming down, we are driving by wishing we had a convertible; there are diners in summer clothes languishing by outdoor tables, dipping into the al fresco food and sipping on chilled white wine.

Kendall Jenner is getting acting lessons, and mum Kris is said to have her sights set on a Hollywood career for her 19-year-old daughter.

With lots of easy breezy makeup, minimal jewellery and loose hair, the Golden Globes opened the awards season with a red carpet chock-full of sparkly metallics, bright whites and dramatic reds.

Annmarie O’Connor highlights the new year’s not to be missed fashion events.

From the Little Black Dress to the Christmas jumper, Paula Burns gives us the lowdown on looking too cool for Yule.

Emma Straub says the ‘naked face’ look makes an edgy non-conformist statement about a woman, while Paula Burns argues thick brows define a face, promoting a natural beauty and urges us all to banish our tweezers.

Can you imagine being so dedicated to vintage clothing that you wear it to work, going out at night, even doing your weekly shop? 

Everyone knows that getting eight hours of shut-eye a night will ensure you look your best, but did you also know you can harness the power of sleep to boost your natural beauty?

Technology is wonderful.

From Michael Jackson to the Beatles, Martin Nolan has handled the world’s biggest celebrity auctions. Not bad for a man from Athlone who began his American dream working as a hotel bell man when he won a lottery visa to the states.

Mick Jagger "could be a eunuch", one half of Grace Kelly’s face was "like a bull calf" and Elizabeth Taylor was vulgar and unladylike.

Hot metal, cool stools, fluttering butterflies and expensive wild leather furniture, crafted by hand. All part of this week’s list from Esther N McCarthy.

Photographs of Hollywood stars found in a dusty old filing cabinet are to be exhibited for the first time.

If William Doyle hadn’t bought Grace Kelly’s iconic High Society dress for his Museum of Style Icons, it would have become a debs dress. From Marilyn Monroe to Audrey Hepburn, he tells Vickie Maye the stories behind his incredible collection of iconic celebrity clothes.

From Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor, to the cult of the Italian designer in the 1980s, London’s V&A is paying tribute to the glamour of Italian fashion in a new exhibition.

Mickey Rooney, the pint-size, precocious actor and all-around talent whose career spanned more than 80 years, has died at the age of 93.

She handled Diana's private collection and sold Jerry Hall's wedding gown. Rose Mary Roche meets renowned vintage dress dealer Kerry Taylor.

Nowadays, you can bottle fame and what’s more — it’s a huge earner for the top stars. Louise O’Neill reports on big-money scent endorsement