Kidston trained as an interior designer under the society decorator Nicky Haslam before branching out on her own, and switched her attention to retailing after opening her first store in 1993. Selling vintage fabrics and salvaged furniture revived with a lick of brightly coloured paint, its wares were a hit with housewives in London's exclusive Holland Park neighbourhood. Then a mistake made during an order left her with more duvet covers than she could sell. Kidston took to her sewing machine and transformed the surplus bedlinen into cushions, washbags and padded coathangers, and the homewares business was born. (Garside, 2013b).

The funeral will rival that of Pope John Paul II in 2005, which drew five kings, six queens and 70 presidents and prime ministers as well as 2 million faithful. The closest British equivalent may have been the 1965 state funeral of Winston Churchill. (Smith, 2013b).

The costumes look remarkably grand for home theatricals, the jewellery is startlingly convincing, and the band evidently comprises moonlighting members of the Royal Horse Guards. The principal boy's legs, in silk stockings, are absolutely tremendous. (Kennedy, 2013).

Pantomime and its cross-dressing traditions spring out of that long tradition of carnival and subversion; a time when eveything went topsy-turvy, people were able to mock their rulers, everything became anarchic. That's where it comes from. And interestingly, cross-dressing still has that potency. As a cross-dresser myself, I know it's a licence to cause mischief, and that's part of the role you take on. (Perry, 2013b).

This printer was going to change my life. If nothing else, I could make a working gun with it.

That was three weeks ago. Today I am a broken man. My entire flat stinks of burnt plastic. My fingers are covered in cuts and scabs. If I ever hear the word "extruder" again, I'm going to slit my throat. My life has turned into a mangled CDT lab of confusion and frustration and microscopic foreign bodies that I'm pretty sure have lodged into my eyeball. (Heritage, 2013).

The win for the 31-year-old celebrates an innovative design talent and recognises his part in transforming the reputation of London fashion week. His collections are the highlight of the capital's fashion week, attracting international interest – and in turn business – for the biannual event. Kane was nominated for the same award last year. (Fox, 2013c).

Textiles are usually low on the pecking order of objects in museums and galleries. "As far as we know," says Amelia Peck, Interwoven Globe's lead curator, "this is the first time that anyone has created an exhibition that uses textiles to tell the story of worldwide trade in the early modern period. (Vickery, 2013b).

' "She hadn't shaved her legs."

"How did you feel about that?"

"I was faintly repulsed," he admitted. (Shreve, 2005, p.17).

'If a woman had a man every day in her bed, Agnes wondered, was she then able to sop worrying about an extra pound or two?' (Shreve, 2005, p.90).

'At some point, one simply had to stop caring about how one looked,' (Shreve, 2005, p.132).

A hijab-wearing rapper, Mahmoud has challenged some Egyptians' expectations of how women – and hijab wearers in particular – are meant to behave. Mahmoud, 18, is not Egypt's first veiled rapper, or even its most experienced. But through her appearances on Arabs Got Talent, a variety show that has become a primetime success across the Middle East, she is one of the few to attract something approaching mainstream attention. (Kingsley, 2013).

This picture shows Vivienne with her then partner in business and life, Malcolm McLaren in 1977 (Whitmore, 2013).

Born Vivienne Swire in Tintwistle in 1941, Westwood trained as a teacher before marrying and having her first son. She gained notoriety, and then fame, as the partner of the late Malcolm McLaren when the two set up their clothes shop, SEX, on Kings Road in London. Since then her unorthodox sense of style has led the transformation of the UK fashion industry from an international backwater into a major player. (Thorpe, 2013).