Once stuck in a 9-5 rut in a Wellington office job, Gala Darling donned a new identity and created a new life as a New York style and self-help guru.

She may enjoy glamour in Hollywood, but Rachel Hunter has revealed a life more ordinary when she is in NZ.

More than 15 beauty spas have offered to cover Rhiannon Hayman's treatment after voucher company Total Experience left her empty handed when it filed for liquidation this month.

Hold on to that holiday feeling while harnessing a little help to weather the hot season well.

Claire Stapleton uses the power of shopping to help those in need.

Labour leader Phil Goff has been asked the big question: has he been indulging in the dark art of Grecian 2000?

A calculated risk can pay dividends, and where fashion shows are concerned, Thom Browne is a sure thing.

Great news for students - jeans left unwashed for a year are no dirtier than those that have been worn for a fortnight.

Isaac Hindin Miller reports from the French capital on the latest in winter menswear fashions.

In the lead-up to their appearance at the Big Day Out, Billie Rogers and Emily Littler share their style preferences with Viva.

If you want to minimise chances of a shark attack, leave your fluorescent boardshorts or yellow polka-dot bikini at home.

Isaac Hindin Miller reports from Italy's style capital on the latest in winter menswear fashions.

What do you get when you combine fashion's young in-crowd with sumptuous food and great wine in a stylish Hawkes Bay lodge? A chic alfresco party. Viva was there.

Isaac Hindin Miller reports from Italy's style capital on the latest in winter menswear fashions.

Isaac Hindin Miller reports from Italy's style capital on the latest in winter menswear fashions.

Check out who's wearing what at the first of this year's big Hollywood award ceremonies.

Cooling spray-on mists are a summer godsend.

Grab your diaries for Viva's essential guide to what everyone will be talking about in 2011. Here's to an eventful year.

A NZ's Next Top Model trailer has been slammed as taking its cue from sick videos where animals are crushed by women in high heels.

It's now that shops start to push their various diet supplements, that magazines and newspapers pontificate on the new year's new you.

To most 8-year-old boys, the idea of a sartorial dilemma is whether or not to change tops after a Heinz spaghetti spillage.

Board shorts had arrived with surfing sometime in the 1960s and looked good, I had to admit, when the wearer was standing on water. But those of us decently immersed had no use for them.

A Maori design network vying for a slice of the $1.5b tourism spend projected during this year's Rugby World Cup, has struck a deal with an international retailer to pitch its product to the world stage.

Insidiously, over the past decade or so, a new cult of physical perfectibility has crossed the Atlantic.

When we head to the beach, Kiwis have clear preferences on what to wear. What we put on our feet leaves us more divided.

A group of Auckland retailers wants to remind shoppers of the pleasures of buying in stores.

A New Zealand makeup artist has risen to the top of her field, painting the skins of the world's most famous people, but this year she is homesick.