THE fashion world welcomes fabulous eccentrics. Attention is vital for survival, so those who strike a dramatic, individual, colourful presence get media space and transform column inches into lucrative fashion roles.

Fifty years after Marilyn Monroe’s death, a new exhibition reveals unseen pictures, her size eight dresses and her secret beauty routine. Suzanne Harrington reports

BEING an outsider is never easy but with marginality comes the rarefied privilege of bucking trends or indeed, creating them.

It’s served by dozens of direct flights, and spilling over with great shops, restaurants, museums and shows. It’s London, baby, and it’s time you paid another visit, says Pól Ó Conghaile.

IN A GALLERY shop the other day, surrounded by Banksy prints and street artists that were so cutting edge that nobody but the gallery owner had heard of them, there were several prints of Marilyn Monroe by the pop art god Peter Blake.

Film star Debbie Reynolds is selling off her collection of memorabilia associated with some of Hollywood's biggest stars.

MADONNA has won a fight to keep ramblers from wandering just yards from her country mansion.

New photographs of Kate Moss and Vivien Leigh are to be unveiled as part of the Unseen Vogue exhibition.