Voyage has a new menswear shop. But will they let you see it? asks James Sherwood

People with naturally beautiful hair can use any old shampoo. The rest of us only get glossy, healthy hair from top product systems such as Aveda and Lazartigue. Now Phytologie, a 25-year-old French company, is gaining ground with a prescriptive, hands-on approach to hair care that's flexible, specific and effective.

Naked legs are for fashion victims only. Here's what to wear with a pencil skirt and stillies

The Agreeable World of Wallace Arnold

is it worth it? At pounds 26, Christian Dior's new formula Svelte Perf ect promises to help conquer your cellulite - but are they selling you a product or a dream?

PARIS DAYS

Christian Dior's brave challenge to post-war austerity, when he grabbed the news pages of the world with his nipped-in waists and generous, mid-calf skirts, is 50 years old tomorrow. Ian Phillips traces the history of the fashion house that is still famous for the New Look of 1947

Dior in Paris: At the Dior anniversary collection, Tamsin Blanchard watches fantastical creations emerge from the hand of the plumber's son

From Eva Peron to Rita Hayworth, the women who wore Dior's dresses chart the story of a great designer. A special gala tomorrow pays tribute to them, reports Julie Street

Scent of Romance is a perfume 'for gels' being launched by Barbara Cartland on her 95th birthday. It will have to survive in a market where a new scent appears every three days. Sarah Stacey investigates the financial chemistry. Photograph by Patrice de Villiers

Think of a shoemaker of the Forties and Fifties and - if fashion history is your thing - you may well arrive at Roger Vivier. The man who created the slender, high-heeled shoes to go with Christian Dior's 1947 New Look, Vivier was so celebrated that Marlene Dietrich wore his heels in Hitchcock's Stage Fright (1950). And Queen Elizabeth II wore shoes by this Frenchman to her coronation.

The archetypal fashion photographer who revelled in controlled chaos. Jane Richards puzzles over the enigma that is Richard Avedon

Christian Dior made a welcome comeback at the Paris spring/summer haute couture collections yesterday with sharp tailoring and elegant evening dresses.

CHRISTIAN DIOR showed its spring-summer 1995 collection yesterday, on the opening day of the Paris ready-to-wear shows.