On beauty

On the catwalk, this season’s most covetable prints are gallery-worthy. Naomi Pike traces fashion’s renewed love of wearable art

ALEXA CHUNG HAS BEEN MANY THINGS – MTV GIRL, CREATIVE DIRECTOR, BALLET-FLAT AFICIONADO – BUT SHE REMAINS, FOREVER, A BRITISH STYLE ICON. IN CONVERSATION WITH NICOLA COUGHLAN, SHE REFLECTS ON THE INDIE-SLEAZE ERA (’IT REALLY WAS AS FUN AS IT LOOKED’) AND REVEALS HER NEXT MOVE

WE MEET THE INDIVIDUALS WHO USE THEIR CREATIVE TALENTS TO ENRICH THE LIVES OF OTHERS, THROUGH FASHION AND JEWELLERY TO INTERIORS

BEFORE SARAH JANE BROWN BECAME A PAINTER, she learned to read the sea. Not in the romanticised, windswept sense; but practically, viscerally, day after day. With over two decades working on the water

THANKS TO HER ANTHEMIC AND VIRAL HIT ‘MESSY’, THE MUSICIAN IS ONE OF THE MOST DOWNLOADED WOMEN ON THE PLANET TODAY. SHE TELLS NICOLA FAHEY WHY SHE’LL ALWAYS FIND JOY – AND VULNERABILITY – THROUGH MUSIC

‘IT’S NOT A chest, not a butt, it’s not a torso — it’s a butt-chin,” says artist Jwan Yosef in his charming, beautifully polite speaking manner. “It’s fun for me to abstract body parts of mine that ar