Beauty: new hybrid foundations

‘Giorgio Armani’s Maestro proved such a game-changer that everyone ran off to try to better the original’

From Dover Street Market on Instagram and shawl chic to Di Mondo and The Jungle Book remake: what’s hot and what’s not on Planet Fashion this week

High fives: Shawls, boilersuits and Instagram. Low blows: Di Mondo, the Hartnett/Egerton pairing and Christian Bale as Bagheera

Tackling climate change one rock at a time

Whitewashing a mountain in Peru, creating artificial glaciers in Ladakh and trying to hold back the ocean in the Maldives – some ingenious schemes to combat climate change are highlighted in Gaia Vince’s latest book, Adventures In The Anthropocene

What every man should know about fashion in 2014

What does smart casual actually mean? How much should one spend on a suit? And is it ever OK to wear a fleece? We answer 2014’s most pressing style conundrums

The Masai Mara: ‘It will not be long before it’s gone’

As lodges and shanty towns proliferate in Kenya’s Masai Mara, drastic and urgent steps are needed to save this beautiful game reserve from becoming an environmental disaster