Amy Schumer’s new film shows Hollywood is the Sunken Place for smart women

Schumer claims I Feel Pretty is all about helping women’s self-esteem when it is in fact one long sneer at her and anyone else who doesn’t look like Emily Ratajkowski

Barbara Hulanicki: ‘The worst age milestone was 40. I locked myself in a bedroom and howled’

The Biba founder and designer, 81, talks about ageing, cheese and young friends

Bobbi Brown: ‘Give me a martini and some dover sole, and I’m a happy girl’

The makeup artist and entrepreneur on having seven hours’ sleep, being a simple chef and running an indie startup

The new stone age – how crystals became a magical style trend

Crystals were once dismissed as hippy dippy nonsense. Now they are popping up on the catwalk and in the handbags of everyone from Adele to Naomi Campbell. Has mysticism gone mainstream?

Model Charli Howard: ‘They told me I was fat’

Charli Howard knew all about the ugly side of modelling. Then one day she decided she’d had enough…

The spray’s the thing: how actors use perfumes to get into character

Playing Thatcher? Dab on Bluebell. Got a part in Hairspray? Reach for the Madame Rochas. We lift the lid on how actors use smells – from the finest fragrances to cheap tinned mackerel – to nail a role

‘I never used to eat salads’: how to look like Kate Moss (according to Kate Moss)

How does the supermodel exercise? Can she cook? And what’s on the menu? (Spoiler: eggs, roasts and sometimes a bit of salad.) Here, she reveals her beauty secrets

Forked tongues and tattooed eyeballs: should body modification be regulated?

Body art parlours are springing up everywhere, but the legislation to govern what can and can’t be done is lacking, leaving some reputable artists up in arms

Vivienne Westwood is as filthy as I am and we both look so much better for it

The designer and her husband have become too posh to wash. And I’m not saying I look stunning, but people are definitely surprised when I say I’m in my 40s – is it because my skin remains unsullied by regular battles with water?

Vivienne Westwood on her secret to staying young: bathe once a week

Fashion designer, 76, says not washing too much is the secret to seeming young, while her husband, Andreas Kronthaler, says he washes even less often