Ellie Pithers

The actor joins Ruth Negga, Janicza Bravo and Fontaines DC’s Grian Chatten to salute the Irish designer

The cover queen and horsewoman on beanie hats, home saunas and her lost life as a librarian

We select the cleansers, tints and creams that never clock off

The $100mn brand has built a hyper-loyal following by keeping things simple

The entrepreneur on multigenerational make-up and the ‘five-minute face’

As brands are quietly scrapping their sustainability targets, Akyn aims to be a case study in eco excellence

It’s one of the world’s oldest and most brutal sporting rivalries. So why is a French couture house giving it the time of day?

These adhesive solutions claim to solve everything from anxiety to hangovers. Do they deliver?

Meet Ross J Barr, London’s most popular acupuncturist

The smart guide to super-fine layers

A new designer has uncovered a trove of “eccentricity” in Copenhagen

The food writer has cooked up a Christmas candle. It’s something to feast on

The artist has turned an old French schoolhouse into a gloriously sprawling home

Gabrielle Greiss’s farmhouse in rural France creates the perfect backdrop for her fantastical pieces

The first Black étoile at the Paris Opera Ballet talks racism, regimens and recognition

Meet the stable of new horse-inspired fragrances

Gallerist Lucy Chadwick on the Gallic cool of her seaside home

Sculptor Katharina Kaminski is exploring her intersex identity with her candlemaker partner Rodrigo Garcia

I was born in Warsaw and I feel very attached to the city. In my 20s I moved to New York to do an internship at Proenza Schouler. My boyfriend, now my husband, wanted to stay in the US. But I always wanted to come back. It led to me launching a made-in-Poland accessories brand here. No one thinks of Poland when they think of bags or leather. Friends in fashion were asking, “Are you sure?” But it turned out to be a great idea. When we launched Chylak in 2014, we saw people with Polish surnames bu…

My personal style signifier is a hat. I’m vertically challenged, so I use a chapeau to extend my height when I’m not wearing heels, or when I’m wearing a silhouette that needs me to look taller. A good lid ends the sentence in every look – it’s the punctuation. I keep my collection in storage, rotate them, then sell them off when I’m fully done. I’m launching a bespoke range of my own one day. The last thing I bought and loved was a pair of Dries Van Noten mesh basketball pants I got when I was…