The power of music in film is undeniable, but it’s clear some songs have outlived the films they were created for. This awards season we remember some Oscar-winning greats…

BORN in Bemidji, Minnesota on June 21, 1921, Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell was the daughter of a former US Army lieutenant and Geraldine Jacobi, who had been a travelling actress. After the family

A shocking pink bob and bright blue eyeshadow form my first glimpse of Zandra Rhodes. Seated in her design studio in South London, Rhodes has just got back from Bath, where she has been viewing the wo

It would be easy to envy children of famous stars, growing up among the glamour of Hollywood, but it didn’t always make for a happy relationship, as these mums and daughters discovered

Silver, red or even black, marriage gowns of the past were seldom white, until Queen Victoria opted for the hue of purity in 1840, discovers Matthew Dennison

I don’t live at home with my three younger siblings anymore. I have my own flat which is shoe-box-sized, but mine, and I can read there whenever I like. I’ve always been a reader, ever since my mum sh