‘getting dressed should be a creative experience’

Bernadette Gledhill , from Huddersfield, has worked in the fashion industry for five decades, first as a model, then teaching others how it’s done and these days choreographing fashion shows. The 70-year-old’s career has come full circle, and she shares with us the joy of modelling, and why she’ll never let anyone perm her hair again!

Costumes and colours are integral to a show, says designer Leslie Kavanagh – none more so than in The Handmaid’s Tale , which concludes this week

The “naked dress” has killed individuality and fashion

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A pop-culture star whose public persona once overshadowed her talent, Pamela Anderson has liberated herself from the burden of caricature, emerging as an acclaimed actress and powerful role model. Lydia Slater meets a woman savouring her second act

Straight-talking, mad about make-up and proud to be an Essex girl, Dame Helen Mirren tells Annie Vischer what it means to be an icon