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Lauren Oakey on Warhol’s tragic star Edie Sedgwick: a waiflike, dancer’s body and a penchant for leotards and tights that clung to her tiny frame. It was a tough look for me to emulate, 5 foot 10 with massive red hair, stomping around Cardiff’s Clwb Ifor Bach to The Velvet Underground on a Friday night in worn-down pixie boots, black and white stripes and 80 denier tights, clutching a bottle of ‘lemon and alcohol’ and a Marlboro Light.   But...
Face fuzz is so last week and Michael Hogan is eyeing the razor   It was during this spring’s Sport Relief telethon that I first heard the tolling of the beardy bell. Shane Lynch from Boyzone – you know, the lanky one who used to look like he’d run through Accessorise with his face covered in Copydex, then somehow reinvented himself as spiritual guru to Paul Danan and Calum Best on Celebrity Love Island – was sporting a voluminous hipster...
Want to up your nail game? Natalie Kate Meehan names the must-follow Instagram accounts.   I take nails very seriously. As seriously as I take my hatred of people who walk slowly when I’m trying to get to Whistles on my lunch hour, or who faff about at cashpoints.   There are few greater pleasures in life than sitting on my sofa, with a lemonade ice lolly, watching Celebrity Masterchef and idly scrolling through Instagram looking for nail inspo. My...