Luminosity- and stellar mass-redshift relations. The black points represent VIPERS galaxies, where red boxes show the selected subsamples. The boxes in M_B absolute magnitude are constructed to follow the redshift evolution of galaxies, as discussed in the text. Coloured lines represent the 90% completeness limits for different sub-populations: orange lines for early-type galaxies, green for early-spirals, cyan for late spirals, and blue for irregulars and starbursts, respectively.