Checked shirts have never gone out of fashion, but today this comfortable, rugged cloth of the clans is selling like never before.

Elizabeth Arden celebrates its 100th anniversary and a singular story.

Intelligent, mischievous and absurdly glamorous, French model and eternally beautiful style icon Ines de la Fressange gives a rare interview.

Hair and skincare needs change with time, writes Janetta Mackay.

Combine mother-daughter time with a treat this Mother's Day.

Skin tone is becoming the new beauty obsession, writes Janetta Mackay.

A smattering of freckles may look cute, but blotchy brown spots the size of a 20c piece are rather less fetching.

Kate Sylvester's new collection is simple, subtle and swooney, writes Zoe Walker.

Skin tone is becoming the new beauty obsession.

Isabelle Olson was inspired by her little girl to create gorgeous clothes for children. Viva asks about her own style.

Lights, makeup, camera ... controversy.

Highlighting powders are a lovely all-in-one way of sculpting and illuminating the face.

A bold Aztec print featured heavily throughout Stolen Girlfriends Club's show at Australian Fashion Week, as did diamante encrusted bandannas...

Flats are bad, stilettos are worse. Is there a shoe that will keep the podiatrist happy? Michelle Coursey does some research.

Viva's Zoe Walker blogs from Australian Fashion Week in Sydney...

Handbags, sweaters and dresses were flying as hundreds of shopaholics fought their way into the opening of New Zealand's first Topshop outlet yesterday.

They met "May-oris" wearing "butt flaps", posed with "horny beasts", and were confused about their geography.

Pick a palette like a true professional

Tyra Banks said she chose New Zealand as a location because a lot of young Americans see the country as "a fantasy world".

Find the colour to suit you.

A family-run skincare company claims it is being bullied by a larger rival over its logo, which the rival claims is a rip-off of its own.

Karen Elson is famous for modelling for designers from Gaultier to Chanel, gracing the cover of Vogue.

Take the mystery out of makeup matching, writes Janetta Mackay.

Australian Fashion Week starts next week and some of our top designers will be there to showcase their goods. Viva looks at what else will be hot and happening on the runway this year.

Gus and Irene Fisher have won the fifth annual Arts Foundation award for patronage.

Fed up with vacuous celebrity scents, perfumer Geza Schoen is teaming up with beautiful minds to inspire his new fragrances.

Jean-Paul Gaultier's Classique fragrance is given a makeover.

Trend forecaster Li Edelkoort knows what we are going to wear, eat and drive before we have even thought about it.

John Key wouldn't get into some shopping centres in his latest outfit, but the Prime Minister decided a hooded sweatshirt was what he needed at Gallipoli on Anzac Day.