Clinique has launched a new limited edition make-up range for Christmas. But you’re going to have to love purple as much as Dot Cotton to be excited by this one. The Black Tie Violets range features products for eyes, cheeks and lips in hues that vary from plum to sugared almond. Apologies for all the food references - I think I must be a little peckish. But with...

Yep, brace yourself and hide your purse. Those naughty people at MAC have just launched another assault of tempting new products that you’ll instantly convince yourself you just need to have. Want doesn’t even come into it.

Fancy dress can be stylish. But usually that isn’t the point. Turning up looking glam while your pals look ridiculous is against the friendship code of honour. It’s bad form. But not when you go to a club night themed around a particular era. Whatever the decade or theme, it’s an opportunity to glam up as much as you possibly can. And perhaps there are none quite...

Glamorous. Over the top. Fabulous. That’s how American designer Michael Kors describes the star factory that is Hollywood. It’s this sexy decadence which has inspired the new fragrance. The Project Runway judge says: “

The Body Shop has called on the big guns for its latest fragrance, Love Etc. Star perfumer Dominique Ropion is behind their latest scent. Ropion has worked on fragrances for brands including Cacharel, Givenchy and Calvin Klein, and assisted on the development of Armani Code, Dune by Dior and Lovely by SJP. This time, his creation fuses jasmine, vanilla, sandalwood...

What: National Chocolate Week runs from October 12 to 18. And it’s only right to celebrate. But the summer diets have gone by the wayside and with the new season

London Fashion week has descended and has left behind it, like an oil tanker with a leak, a slick of fashion detritus. It’s pop-up stores galore in the Capital. This time it’s the turn of French denim brand, Topshop until October 12.

London Fashion Week is fast approaching. And if the stress of trying to nab the goody bags from the front row without security noticing gets too much, or your pretty but impractical shoes are rubbing then it may be time to take advantage of the various discounts on offer around the shows. Retailers at Seven Dials, the shopping area between Soho and Covent Garden, are...

Russian make-up brand Rouge Bunny Rouge has launched in the UK. And I can’t help but think it has been created by hippies with a keen knowledge of certain fungi, if you understand what I’m saying. It’s not just the brand’s darkly trippy packaging and imagery, featuring black and white silhouettes of flowers. Any brand that describes how to apply one of its products...

A thin, claret-coloured pout, flawless alabaster skin with just a hint of peach blush, angular jet-black brows and numerous strings of pearls. Every fashion icon has a particular image, in many cases a famous photograph, that becomes the standard but extraordinary library shot by which we remember them. For Audrey Hepburn say, there’s the chignon, tight black dress...