Luxury player: why Bernard Arnault is making a blockbuster bid for Tiffany’s

France’s richest man has turned LVMH into a leviathan: this move will be the crowning glory of a calculating career

The season to gift beauty: From exclusive beauty advent calendars to exclusive sets

    This is a next-generation Christmas, an interplay of old and new! This Christmas Beauty, Selfridges is exploring a colour-saturated vision of the future. Selfridges rethinks traditional, beloved festive stories and re-tells tales as old as time, but through a modern lens. Product drops in as if by magic in unexpected galactic colourways and editions … Read more

Beauty and the beam: the future of LED therapy looks bright

It’s non-invasive and has been proven to work. But can LED therapy really be a miracle cure for everything from acne to tired skin? Rachel Cooke sees the light

Sali Hughes’s 40 best sustainable beauty brands

From packaging to ingredients, the Guardian’s beauty editor picks the top brands doing their bit for the planet

‘Plastic recycling is a myth’: what really happens to your rubbish?

You sort your recycling, leave it to be collected – and then what? From councils burning the lot to foreign landfill sites overflowing with British rubbish, Oliver Franklin-Wallis reports on a global waste crisis