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Fashion
London fashion week: backstage at Karoline Vitto SS25 – in pictures
For her first standalone collection at London fashion week, following two seasons as part of the talent incubator Fashion East and a Dolce & Gabbana sponsored SS24 turn in...
Celebrity
Emmys 2024 red carpet: Ayo Edebiri, Meryl Streep, Andrew Scott and more – in pictures
Drag Race stars Mirage, Amanda Tori Meating, Morphine Love Dion, Sapphira Cristál, Mhi’ya Iman Le’Paige, Geneva Karr, Xunami...
Beauty
Tasteful nudes – lip colours for autumn
Nude makeup is super chic for this time of the year, but everyone’s nude is different, hence my...
Childcare
Parents are anxious, lonely, overwhelmingly stressed – and their crisis affects everyone | Emma Beddington
It is the kind of statistic that makes you do a double-take, because it can’t be right. It...
Food
More than malbec: the diverse wines of Argentina
Altos Las Hormigas Colonia Las Liebres Mendoza Bonarda Clasica Mendoza 2023 (from £12.49, Shelved, Hay Wines, Fenwick) For...
And so farewell, it’s time to say goodbye to my gardening column
So here, my final Observer column. Plot 29 has reached its autumn. Maybe me, too.
I stepped away from the Observer on Friday 13. Twenty-five...
Sunday with Lindsay Duncan: ‘I lie on the sofa and read the paper’
How do you spend Sundays? Absolutely in the pursuit of pleasure, in our case: food. We hire a Zipcar and drive to the farmers’...
Editors’ picks: Can-do khaki – in pictures
Harriet Green, editor, the Observer Magazine‘Belt a jumpsuit for a chic silhouette.’ Jumpsuit,£79.99, mango.com. Chain, £37.99, pilgrim.net. Belt, £340, Déhanche, net-a-porter.com. Ring, £105, byalona.com....
Tim Dowling: all the new puppy wants to do is eat and pee – anytime, anywhere
Thanks to a strict system of positive reinforcement, the little dog has learned that it’s good to pee outside. Unfortunately it still has no idea...
What links Byker Wall, Falowiec and Karl-Marx-Hof? The Saturday quiz
The questions1 Which three crops provide just under half of global calories?
2 What is the UK’s tallest bird?
3 Which group were tried en masse...
Time to retire the office trainers – grownup shoes are back | Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion
There is a saying that goes: you can judge a man by his shoes. Actually, that’s not true, there isn’t. The original proverb actually...