COUNTRY LIFE

Peter Dench considers...

Are you Camp Dior or Camp Chanel? Two new couturiers went head-to-head in Paris. Rebecca Lowthorpe had a front row seat

Charles Dickens Pictures from Italy 384pp. Oxford University Press. £176 (US $230). In November 1843, burnt out and living beyond his means, Charles Dickens resolved on a year-long sabbatical in Europ

This 19th-century Milanese villa has been completely revamped to show the creative side of an avid art collector and his family

Couturier who dressed Jackie Kennedy and Elizabeth Taylor ...