Society tries to shield children from violence. We wouldn’t show “Inglourious Basterds” to tweens. But with sex, lines blur and critics spar. The indecent can pass for alluring, and French Vogue proved this sad fact. In a recent iss...

With election season gearing up, we’re likely to see a lot of bland pantsuits and patriotic ties. But some candidates (or their fashionable wives) will don luxe eagle pins or rhinestone flags, the signature of Ann Hand, a woman who’s far ...

Last week, MAC Cosmetics announced a new collaboration with Cindy Sherman, the avant-garde photographer known for styling herself as odd caricatures. Since the ’70s, she’s snapped herself in costume, using cosmetics and prosthetics to mor...

Amy Winehouse looked a bit like a gap-toothed Dita Von Teese in 2004, before the tattoos, tabloids and addictions got the best of her. But that’s not when Chanel demigod Karl Lagerfeld dubbed her “the new Brigitte Bardot.” He praise...

Mulberry bushes are best known in nursery rhymes. Unless you’re a stockbroker. In the past 12 months, shares of British luxury leather goods company Mulberry rose 526 percent to $34 a share, making it the best-performing apparel retail stock in...

“I’ve had waiters yell at me and nutritionists tell me I’m not designed to survive,” says Sandra Beasley, who can’t eat dairy, eggs, beef, soy, mustard and much of the rest of what you can find in a supermarket. In ̶...

Recently, while waiting for a flight at Reagan, I watched a young girl struggle with the June edition of Vogue. She grimaced as she thumbed through it, as though she were reading hieroglyphics or Joyce’s “Ulysses.” After a few minut...

It’s the world’s most popular meat, but you’d be hard-pressed to find it at Safeway. Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough, authors of “Goat: Milk, Meat, Cheese” ($30, Stewart, Tabori & Chang), think this scrawny farm...

If I were directing a made-for-TV film based on Sarah Palin scion Bristol’s new memoir, “Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far,” the finale would go like this: Bristol (played by Katie Holmes), sits down for an on-air therapy sessio...

It’s hard to be anything but enamored with 18-year-old violin prodigy Caroline Goulding, who will perform with the National Symphony Orchestra for the first time in “Tcheers for Tchaikovsky” (Thu., 8:15 p.m., NSO at Wolf Trap, Wolft...

I once lived in a tiny Irish town where it rains 320 days a year. Being a native Floridian, I often took shelter in the local mall, which is where I first heard the term “High Street.” High Street is a shopping district in London; it̵...

Kate Middleton got props for wearing Carrickmacross English lace on her McQueen sleeves when she walked through Westminster Abbey in April. But the delicate fabric — once reserved for big-day dresses and French lingerie — is now also show...

‘Tis the season for intern spotting! This D.C. pastime is an exciting exercise in biological classification. Internus can be seen grabbing vacant seats on the Metro at rush hour or falling out of Georgetown haunts on weekends. But behavioral pa...

Tennessee music festival Bonnaroo came and went this past weekend. Summer music shindigs are about hearing Neil Young and dressing like him, too. But I’m not really a fan of the Buffalo Springfield-at-play look. It’s boho, and it’s ...

Last night, the first lady surely looked radiant at the state dinner honoring German Chancellor Angela Merkel, above. Trying to guess who Michelle Obama would wear made me wonder: What if she chose a German designer? “Wait,” you say, R...