Dress to impress

Fashion is gloriously pleasurable to describe but fiendishly difficult to analyse. It is a cultural phenomenon that tugs in two directions—on the one hand, we (and to a greater or lesser extent almost

There can’t be many shops that have received the distinction of being commemorated by the Royal Mint striking a coin in its honour. Not just any coin, but a £5 model, either in plain gold at £3,965, o

The piece I’d never part with

Will Hosie Tied to trends: Dior’s new nod ...

The mischievous cultural commentator and diarist who changed the way museums think about the past

It’s a truth universally acknowledged more than 250 years later – and we’re as obsessed with the author as ever