How do I look?
What do you hate - or love - most about your body? Teeth, hair, wrinkles, breasts ... We asked a host of writers about the part that best defines them - their saving grace or the one thing that has them fleeing from the mirror.

'I wish I could've been a rock star. They don't have to talk. Plus they get to sleep all day, do lots of drugs, and have sex with anyone they want'
As head designer at Gucci, Tom Ford single-handedly reinvented sexy. But then he left the company in 2004 and reinvented himself: he wrote screenplays, he played tennis, he had therapy. Vanessa Grigoriadis finds him, at the dawn of his new menswear venture, reining in his fashion libido, and going all posh.

The most powerful woman in television - that you've never seen
Anne Sweeney is the most influential woman in TV. Forbes magazine ranked her as the 15th most powerful person in the world. All we know is that she brought us Lost and Desperate Housewives, and she's about to launch the (clearly fabulous) Cashmere Mafia. Marianne Macdonald meets her - and thanks her.

It's a girl boy thing
Air stewardess Karen Mcleod looks as conventional as her suburban background. But first she discovered lesbianism, then drag and, now, writing. Rachel Cooke reports on the latest, unlikely literary sensation.

The next big thing
It's strange how images of larger women take us by surprise. After all, isn't this what most of us look like?

How I get dressed
Thandie Newton

The rules of summer 2007
A user's guide to Summer 07

What I know about men ...
Mutya Buena, singer-songwriter, 22, lives with boyfriend, one daughter.

What I know about women ...
Kirk Douglas actor, 90, married twice, four sons.

The ex-files
Liz Gilbert and Neill 'Pixi' Morgan

Beauty queen
Kathy Phillips: All you need to know about cleansing and protection.

The beauty test
Kathleen Baird-Murray tests scrubs, lip colours and mineral make-up.

The land of Milfs and honey
Is it so terrible to be fancied by men young enough to be the sons we never had?