The culture shapers: marie antoinette

LONDON’S V&A Museum has opened a showstopping new exhibition – “Marie Antoinette Style”. It’s the first UK exhibition dedicated to the woman it calls “the most fashionable, scrutinised, controversial

The Voodoo Queen

Over a long career, John Hardman has specialised to great effect in teasing out, from speeches, decrees, minutes, memoranda, letters, diaries and unsent drafts, the varied moods of French political de

A major new exhibition will chronicle the life and style of Queen Elizabeth II. Rebecca Lowthorpe got a sneak peek at the extraordinary collection

Colour co-ordinated Buccellati has spoiled us with two ...

Roger Vivier brand ambassador Ines de la Fressange tells Rebecca Lowthorpe why good taste always requires a touch of bad…