Bailey’s eighties

Barendina Smedley says there is still much to admire, four decades on, in the timeless good taste displayed in the bestselling book The Englishman’s Room

Supermodels, stellar designers, all-night parties and endless Champagne – the 90s was a decade like no other, and Mary Portas saw it all. Here, she charts her fashion journey from window dresser to legendary creative director at Harvey Nichols

Whether it is adding contemporary paintings to a gallery of Old Masters or branching out into territories as diverse as Modernist chairs, Iranian tiles or Churchill memorabilia, the passion for collecting seems to run in some families, as Eleanor Doughty discovers

For 10 years, from 1965 to 1975, snapper BARRIE WENTZELL was the all-seeing eye of the UK music scene. His new book, previewed here, captures the biggest stars at their least guarded. DANNY ECCLESTON is agog.

Even today, when prices for a good Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow have risen to a level vaguely commensurate with their stunning quality, these are still hugely undervalued cars – victims of their own succ

Boris Becker on life in jail When Boris ...