Victor’s secret: male lingerie is coming to a bloke near you
Could frilly satin and lace underwear, along with form-fitting ‘shapewear’, really replace the traditional vest and Y-fronts?
Body image
Rodent leather and designer kidneys: art in the age of bio-revolution
Bespoke breasts, cloned frog meat and a gold gimp suit all feature in a remarkable new exhibition exploring the cutting edge of science
Rankin’s best photograph: a supermodel in a cow mask
‘I didn’t think models were being treated as people. So we borrowed a farm, put some in masks – and shot them in a cow barn then a pigsty’
Snapchat photo filters linked to rise in cosmetic surgery requests
The trend, labelled ‘Snapchat dysmorphia’, suggests some people are experiencing a worrying blur between reality and social media
Fashion industry told to end its quest for ‘unattainable thinness’
Women’s Equality party demands changes to industry and a minimum body mass index for models
Do you know what too fat looks like?
A study suggests that African American women in the US have a different picture of what unhealthy weight looks like than medical experts, prompting suggestions that pictures should be more widely used with health messages to counter the new normality of excess weight