"Am I pretty enough?" It's a rare woman who hasn't pondered the question, silently and secretly.

This week Style File scouted talent around the inner-city streets by the Sky City Grand.

Women who want to wear new-season designer dresses to parties and events this summer but don't want to pay the big prices this can involve are turning to hire companies instead.

In a world that relies on smartphones to keep a track of our lives and the time spent living it, it’s little wonder how the act of wearing a watch has evolved from its practical origins to one that focuses now purely on aesthetics.

In a world that relies on smartphones to keep a track of our lives and the time spent living it, it’s little wonder how the act of wearing a watch has evolved from its practical origins to one that focuses now purely on aesthetics.

Supermodel Kate Moss is set to launch a new line with Topshop, with 40 pieces due to hit stores in April 2014.

The 50-year-old fashion designer began dating former porn star Harry Louis, 25, in 2011.

More than 100 operations - including two liver transplants - are not usually seen on the CVs of beauty contestants.

The beard is many things to many people. It can be fashion statement, competitive endeavour, symbol of both conformity and rebellion...

Flat shoes, from ballet flats to classic penny loafers, are seeing a resurgence of late as designers develop new ways to re-interpret flat shoes as an all-occasion option from work to weekend.

A Kiwi male model has returned home after five weeks in a Japanese jail for trying to run from police who found him with cocaine.

He has a reputation as a ladies man - but last night Paul Henry had eyes only for his daughter Sophie Hopes as she competed in the Miss Universe NZ final.

Evening wear takes a more casual approach this season as fanciful fabrics collide with the practical.

Aspiring designers face up to the hard yakka of the fashion industry, writes Catherine Smith.

Evening wear takes a more casual approach this season as fanciful fabrics collide with the practical. Stylist: Dan Ahwa Photographer: Natalie Slade Model: Jaeger Glucina from Nova Models Hair and makeup: Katie Melody Rogers Stylist’s assistant: Tautahi Subritzky

Beauty giant Dove has been forced to take an advertisement for its shampoo off television screens after it was deemed misleading to viewers.

British actors Benedict Cumberbatch and ex-Harry Potter star Emma Watson have been named the world's sexiest film stars, according to British movie fans. Here are the top ten male and top ten female Sexiest Stars of the Moment:

One will battle for a crown and the other for $100,000 when two of broadcaster Paul Henry's daughters step into the limelight.

What was likely designer Marc Jacobs' last ready-to-wear collection for Louis Vuitton looked like a show in mourning - black, black and more black.

As 20 hopefuls count down the days until they hit a night of glitz and glamour, the Miss Universe NZ competition is aiming to turn heads and change stereotypes.

Alexander Wang's women simultaneously embodied the relaxed modern and carefully elegant looks, their hood-like grey cashmere collars part of one of the most sophisticated collections the designer has come up with in his career. Furs were opulent, some in the form of sleeves running all the way along the arms, some encrusted with diamonds.

We want you to bring all your burning beauty questions to the table when holistic health expert, Dr Libby Weaver joins us for a live chat today, from 12-1pm.

Style File brings you the best looks from an all white themed posh Moet do, and asks you, who wore it better?

It was a beauty pageant but 1989 Miss Otago, Margot D'hondt, says the Miss NZ contest was far from being all glitz and glamour.

Bare-breasted, slogan-daubed and screaming feminists from Ukrainian group Femen burst on to the runway at Paris Fashion Week as Nina Ricci's collection was being modelled.

I went out to a bit of a do the other week; one of those dos where the underlying assumption is that you'll put a bit of effort into your appearance.

Lindsay Lohan's half-sister is said to have spent over US$25,000 (NZ$30,840) on cosmetic work in a bid to look like her famous sibling.