I grew up in Wagga Wagga in southern New South Wales and went to university in Bathurst. I was 19 and heading back to uni at the end of the midyear break when I fell asleep on the Sydney-bound train, waking up just after the station where I was supposed to switch to a bus….
The Australian Open, much like the cast of characters who step on to the sunshine-soaked courts every January, has its own sense of style. Over the decades, it has evolved to have more in common with the neon glamour of the US Open than the buttoned-up all-white tradition of Wimbledon, but energetically it lands somewhere…
For 50 years, Giorgio Armani has only ever wanted “to dress real men, not an invented character who only exists on the runway”. Speaking before launching his autumn collection in Milan, this may have sounded a strange thing to say before a fashion show, but it does explain why the Italian designer has rarely deviated…
The art direction and photographs of Oliviero Toscani were provocative not for what they showed – real life, he said, complex and contradictory – but where they were seen. The images, subjects ranging from a bloodied newborn baby to the condemned of death row, would have been unremarkable on the editorial pages of a classic…
At this time of year, many of us rethink our working life, but how can you craft a CV that will catch an employer’s attention and then pull off a winning interview? Recruitment experts share the secrets to getting hired. Apply for jobs that are right for you “It is going to be a competitive…
What do the words “self-care” mean to you? A long scented soak in the bath? A winter run with a podcast as the sun sets? Box-fresh bed linen? It could even be all of the above, in one evening. The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an…