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St. Thomas Yacht Club Invitational Regatta © Carol Bareuther The second annual St. Thomas Yacht Club (STYC) Invitational Regatta will take place on May 14-16, 2021. Run out of the Club's St. Thomas Sailing Center (STSC) in Cowpet Bay, this event will welcome 8 teams representing the U.S. Virgin Islands, U.S.A., and Sweden. COVID-19 safety precautions will be in place per the USVI Government's executive orders. For example, crews are limited to three in the IC24 and will race jib and main, thus eliminating extra crew needed to fly a spinnaker. Plus, competitors will social distanc...

In Fabric, BBC Two, 11.20pm Writer-director Peter Strickland follows the stylised weirdness of Berberian Sound Studio and The Duke Of Burgundy with an off-kilter horror comedy about a desirable red dress that hungers for the blood of any woman that dares wear it. Catalogue model Jill (Sidse Babett Knudsen, who also starred in The Duke Of Burgundy) meets a grisly fate after she slips on the red fabric. The couture becomes an object of obsession for divorcee Sheila (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), who spots the garment in a sale at her local department store. She hopes the striking red dress will em...

March 2021 cover star Angelina Jolie wearing a Burberry polo neck, Max Mara cigarette pants and Chanel flats in an homage to Audrey Hepburn.  Craig McDean Funny Face also formalised Hepburn’s working relationship with the French couturier Hubert de Givenchy. The fashion-obsessed actor (she’s said to have splashed some of her Roman Holiday pay cheque on a Givenchy coat), first approached the bemused designer to create costumes for her role in Sabrina (1954), but too pressed for time, he let her choose from his collections instead. The film later snagged an Oscar for Best Costume...

comments In the 1957 musical romantic comedy "Funny Face," Audrey Hepburn plays Jo Stockton, a shy bookstore employee and amateur philosopher who is discovered by photographer Dick Avery, played by Fred Astaire. The two have a gentle love-hate relationship and end up in a spat at a bohemian club where Dick looks overdressed in a roomful of men in tight striped shirts, while Jo is the epitome of chic in black cigarette capris. Before launching into an iconic dance routine, Jo chides Dick for how his adherence to outdated social mores inhibits his expressiveness.  "As a matter of fact, I r...