‘100% party girl’ and key part of 1980s London club scene designed for Rihanna, Björk, Kylie Minogue and Debbie Harry Pam Hogg, the fashion designer who brought together fashion and music on the catwalk in the 1980s, has died aged 66, her family have said. Hogg, whose bold, futuristic designs were worn by stars including Rihanna, Kate Moss and Blondie’s Debbie Harry, died “surrounded by the loving care of cherished friends and family”, her family posted on Instagram. Continue reading...

How did an Ohio-born dentist-turned bestselling author end up making a killer shark movie in 1930s Australia, and having a beach-town caravan park named after him? A swashbuckling biography unspools the unlikely tale * Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email The story begins with a shadow beneath the waves. A great white, pitiless and silent. Dorsal fin like a mean knife. Eyes dark and empty. The setting: a tight-knit coastal town where the locals are being picked off, one by one. They need a hero – a man with the audacity to challenge a legend. There’s blood in the water. The cameras are rolling. Movie history is being made. Behind the scenes, it’s chaos. There’s a mechanical shark that barely resembles a living creature, and is far more trouble than it’s worth. The production is beset by so many delays and accidents it begins to feel cursed. But the crew push on. There’s a lot riding on this big fish film: fortunes, careers, legacies. Continue reading...

Two iconoclasts of contemporary fashion will show side by side in the first major Australian exhibition since the London designer’s death two years ago