Rebecca Howden

Twenty years ago this April, Kurt Cobain was found lying dead in his home in Seattle, Washington, a gunshot wound to the head. He was twenty-seven years old; he left behind his wife, Courtney Love, his eighteen-month-old daughter, Frances Bean, and hundreds of thousands of flannel shirt-wearing fans, who crowded the streets for days in […]

She was the original It Girl, a Southern belle turned glamorous flapper turned broken-down mental patient. Overflowing with charm and wit, Zelda Fitzgerald was the perfect heroine for a story of Jazz Age decadence. As the wife of the great novelist F Scott Fitzgerald, she became an icon of the decade, of everything extravagant and […]

At the Paris men’s fashion shows in June 2010, there was one question everyone was asking: ‘Who’s the blonde girl?’ It was Andrej Pejic, the 19-year-old Broadmeadows boy who’s taken the fashion industry’s breath away; whipping up a storm of delight, confusion and anticipation about androgyny in fashion. Whippet-thin with impossibly long legs and a […]