Twice a year, the designer's collections give us our early insights into the trends we can expect to see proliferating across the upcoming season. If fashion worked like an investment bank, these ...

It’s a question so simple, yet it piques the interest and curiosity the moment we put ourselves in a thinking posture and ask: What is the colour of water? We learn from childhood textbooks and from ...

Against a backdrop of rising white nationalism, the ‘global authority on colour’ has chosen white as the shade of 2026. Four experts wade in on the implications for everything from interior design ...

There’s nothing worse than forking out for a hair colour appointment, only to have it fade substantially by the end of the month. Fortunately, there are easy tweaks to make to help preserve the ...

If 2025 was all about bold and vibrant hair colours, then the hair colour trends of 2026 represent something of a gear shift. Warm, earthy and relaxed, the shades coming through are deeper and less ...

Our heart often skips a beat when we see our first grey hair strand! And from thereon, the task of finding and trimming the greys begins. However, the easier and more feasible option is to colour your ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Edge Hill University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. I knew there would be an argument. The room had gone eerily quiet. “Isn’t it about time,” my partner began, “that we freshened ...

In April, a team of researchers reported a device enabled them to witness an intense green-blue colour that had never been seen by humans before. After the announcement, they were bombarded by ...

Colour is vital to food and beverage. While not linked explicitly to nutrient content, colour has a less concrete but in many ways just as important purpose: it affects how consumers perceive ...