Anna Murphy

1 day ago | thetimes.com | Anna Murphy

I am in my fifties. Like most people of my age or older I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of belly buttons I saw other than my own - beach holidays aside - in the first couple of decades of my life. It was Kate Moss who changed that, in 1993. The newly-minted model, then 19, wore a see-through slip dress to a party, accessorising it with said navel plus a toothy grin and (um) her nipples. The world had never seen anything like it. Even Moss herself claimed to have been surprised.

5 days ago | thetimes.com | Anna Murphy

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Anna Murphy

The Met Gala in New York is always the most full throttle event in the fashion calendar. But a night conceived to celebrate black dandyism was inevitably going to take things to the next level. There were multiple capes, hats and walking sticks, and the bling — on the men, never mind the women — was, at times, blinding. Even before the guests started arriving, the co-chairs were giving it their foppish all.

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Anna Murphy

For us hoi polloi the fact that the first Monday in May is upon us means our minds are on such topics as whether it’s OK to still be using last year’s sun cream. For the famous, the fashionable and the fabulous, however, it signals only one thing: the Met Gala in New York. Arguably the most important fashion night of the year, the opening shindig for the spring exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute is the definition of more is more.

2 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Anna Murphy