Giving credit

The “naked dress” has killed individuality and fashion

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

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

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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

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!