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Fashion Victim: You, too, can make waves on the beach

YOU, too, can look beach body beautiful. Without meaning to diss our own fabulous beach body guide, looking hot on the beach in the figurative, rather than the sweaty sense, is a tall order for anyone not named Gisele Bundchen. Read

Tennis stars are courting style experts

CONFESSION to make. I don’t know or care that much about tennis. Correction, I know that Goran Ivanisevic is fit and Jean Michael Gambill (big star circa 2002) is so gorgeous it was all I could do not to lick him when I was sent to interview him. Read

Fashion Victim: Reality gets in the way of my stylish intentions

AS I write this column, I am sitting in a Spanish airport wondering how it is that, despite spending an obscene number of hours each week scrutinising pictures of celebrities arriving at Heathrow and LAX looking impossibly glamorous, I am about to board a flight home in Havaianas and a creased-up black sundress, which will blow up over my head at the first hint of a British breeze, while suffering a hair malfunction of epic proportions. Read

Fashion Victim: Should I be dressing my age or my shoe size?

IF IT is not Madonna’s terrifying obsession with leotards and fingerless gloves, it is Kylie reneging on her decision never again to be photographed in hot pants now she has passed the magic 40 barrier. Read

Fashion Victim: Great style but lose the Mum, daahling ...

FROM Marie Antoinette through Princess Grace to the Queen of Hearts Princess Diana, the fashion world’s obsession with Royalty is an unwavering one. Read

Fashion Victim: Our retail therapy now much closer to hand

IF SHOPPING were an Olympic sport, then Liverpool would be weighed down with gold medals. Read

Fashion Victim: Fashion we could all Carrie off

SEX and the City was about a lot of words beginning with “f”. Friendship, family, failure and fidelity all featured but the show was most definitely about fashion. Read

Fashion Victim: There’s no summer loving with my clothes

SO SUMMER is here at last. Or at least it is for the time being. And, if you are anything like me, you have not got a thing to wear. Read

Fashion Victim: Madonna is my choice of gym buddy

IT WAS the transformation that none of us could have seen coming. Grace Kelly look-alike and earth mother type Gwyneth Paltrow slopes off to spend a couple of years eating lentils and raising babies – then, poof! Up she pops on the red carpet a long-limbed glamazon. Read

Fashion Victim: Coleen takes new direction in style stakes

BARELY a day goes by when our own super-wag-to-be Coleen McLoughlin is not in the papers. Read

Fashion Victim: It's not so easy to put your best foot forward

WHAT is going on in the world of shoes right now? Don’t get me wrong – like anyone with double X chromosomes, I swoon at the sight of a sexy stack heel and have more pairs than I care to count (well, actually, I know exactly how many I have, they are all boxed, numbered and arranged by occasion, but my bank manager could be reading this). Read

Coleen Mcloughlin shares a joke at the races on Ladies Day at Aintree

Fashion Victim: Liverpool style is always a clear winner

OH, LADIES’ Day at the Grand National Festival. Doesn’t it just sum up everything that is great about Liverpool ladies and their unsurpassable sense of style? Read

Fashion Victim: A courtroom makeover maketh the woman

THERE has been no getting away from one story in the press for months and months and this week it finally came to its full and very public conclusion. Read

Fashion Victim: Criticise Katie and you’re Cruising for a bruising

I MUST admit that this is not something I ever expected to find myself doing, but I think it is time to come out in defence of Katie Holmes. Read

Fashion Victim: Will any of us deign to copy Agyness?

ANOTHER week, another best dressed list. This time, it is Tatler telling us who has got it wrong and right over the past year. Read

Fashion Victim: Lily’s a role model - not just a supermodel

SO IT looks like Marks and Spencer have gone and done it again. After Twiggy, Erin, Laura and Lizzy, they are about to hit the jackpot once more with their latest recruit Lily Cole. Read

Fashion Victim: So what happened to the glamour?

SO FINALLY, after a completely fun-free January, thanks to the writers strike in the US, we got the first proper awards show of the season at the weekend. Read

Fashion Victim: Walking tall could be as good as a workout

BRILLIANT. Finally, scientists have admitted something that I have known almost since I could walk. High-heeled shoes are good for you. Read

Fashion Victim: It’s all about the happy couple

SO HERE it is, our very first Style City weddings edition, and we hope it will help all you brides- to-be (and bridegrooms) make those all-important decisions about the biggest day of your life. Read

Fashion Victim: Asda’s new offering doesn’t work for me

SO ASDA has finally gone and done it. After bringing out cheap as chips wedding dresses and frocks which can make you cool like Coleen for under a tenner, the supermarket giant has launched an outfit for work that costs a fiver. Read