Cooling spray-on mists are a summer godsend.

Grab your diaries for Viva's essential guide to what everyone will be talking about in 2011. Here's to an eventful year.

A NZ's Next Top Model trailer has been slammed as taking its cue from sick videos where animals are crushed by women in high heels.

It's now that shops start to push their various diet supplements, that magazines and newspapers pontificate on the new year's new you.

Board shorts had arrived with surfing sometime in the 1960s and looked good, I had to admit, when the wearer was standing on water. But those of us decently immersed had no use for them.

To most 8-year-old boys, the idea of a sartorial dilemma is whether or not to change tops after a Heinz spaghetti spillage.

A Maori design network vying for a slice of the $1.5b tourism spend projected during this year's Rugby World Cup, has struck a deal with an international retailer to pitch its product to the world stage.

When we head to the beach, Kiwis have clear preferences on what to wear. What we put on our feet leaves us more divided.

A New Zealand makeup artist has risen to the top of her field, painting the skins of the world's most famous people, but this year she is homesick.

A 22-year-old woman in a borrowed 1960s dress has won the annual Fashions in the Field title at the Boxing Day Races at Ellerslie.

All Danielle Hayes wanted for Christmas was a RipStik.

Some of the country's leading fashion boutiques are playing fast and loose with the law on replacing or refunding damaged goods.

Up to 25,000 people could flock to the Boxing Day racing carnival at Ellerslie today but the horses seem a minor attraction.

The grandfather of Spanish fashion, 81-year-old Elio Berhanyer, has become the latest victim of the country's ailing economy.

Big Day Out songbirds Bic Runga and Kody Nielson share their style secrets and their preference for keeping things simple.

Go with the flow this summer by embracing beachy hair.

A Muriwai-based company's panel mounting system is holding together an exhibit celebrating the fashion house's 125th anniversary.

Handmade bath and body company Lush will release chewable toothpaste tablets next year.

It's not called the silly season for nothing, get decked out like a Christmas tree, writes Janetta Mackay.

Former expat Georgina Robertson has brought the fashion influences of France and England home with her to New Zealand.

From Napier to New York, Nga Waiata's striking jewellery is making some waves.

These wearable winners are sure to please, writes Janetta Mackay.

Outrageous Fortune brought Westie bogan chic into our living rooms - now it's hitting the Auckland Museum in a new exhibition.

Children's toys and lipsticks are at the centre of an investigation which has found a toy that contains lead 314 times over the allowable limit.

Researchers claim to have found the first proof that getting a regular eight hours' sleep a night can make you appear more attractive.

A New Zealander and his US-born wife have won an international competition looking for the 'world's best couple'.