Swing out sister – it’s time to embrace the 60s shift, says Annmarie O’Connor.

BETWEEN forkfuls of salad in a New York restaurant, TV presenter Dawn O’Porter, 35, is remembering the 2011 Baftas.

No decade of the 20th century is as talked about as the 1960s.

Chanel once said that the knees were the ugliest part of a woman’s anatomy, perhaps this is why she was the first modern female designer to put women into trousers.

* Kelly Osbourne keeps trying to do retro, badly. Here, she channels her inner Mary Quant and looks old for her age in this clumpy, frumpy Sixties navy snore, complete with purple beehive at the E! 2013 Upfront event in New York.

SIMON DOONAN of luxury department store Barneys New York remembers being a teenager in the Swinging Sixties.

SHORT hair has always been synonymous with social or personal change: an intimate expression of revolution.

His first photography job was with the Beatles, and since then Terry O’Neill has worked with many of the biggest names in showbiz. As he prepares to return to Cork — his father’s birthplace — for a major exhibition, the legendary snapper tells Alan O’Riordan about life in the fame game.

T’S my mother’s birthday. She’s trying on a wig in my brother’s kitchen. Not because she wants to. My brother found the wig in his children’s toy box and wants us all to try it on. My siblings and I know the look in my brother’s eye from childhood; rolling over like a dog is our only option. He’s not made it to CEO for nothing.

EVERYONE loves a comeback, or do they? The mini-skirt, which celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this year, looks set to make a return and turn heads yet again.

Vidal Sassoon, the hair stylist and fashion world pioneer who created a natural look in the 1960s and built a multi-million-dollar business on his name, spelled the end for the 1950s-era bouffant.

Acclaimed hairdresser Vidal Sassoon has died at home surrounded by loved ones after losing a battle with leukaemia, his family said.

The Decision

I WOULD hate to be stuck with people my own age the whole time.

Britain’s favourite wheeler-dealer, Del Boy Trotter, is to return to TV screens, it was announced today, in a new comedy drama about his teenage years.

ONE in three over-60s regrets letting a perfect partner slip through their fingers and a whopping 66% of those questioned in a new survey says the swinging ’60s passed them by.

A CAMPAIGN was launched yesterday to promote Limerick as a cultural break destination.