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Seve Ballesteros tribute bid fails as French get Ryder Cup

17.05.11
Golf chiefs hand 2018 tournament to Paris and defend decision not to award it to Madrid... more

After hours: my champagne costume drama

03.05.11
I have two reasons to dress fabulously tonight. The first is to look edible for my man, as always, and the second is because it's a fancy dress competition to win a Methuselah of champagne... more

Heavenly scents - the best fragrance classics

08.12.10
Here are some of the best of the vintage scents that have returned to us, as suggested by scent guru Roja Dove — how contemporary they seem... more

Greed, egos and yet another blot on the horizon

12.10.10
Proposals to turn a Hampstead mansion into a ‘pleasure palace’ merely highlight the flaws of the planning system ... more

Phoenix seize the day

02.08.10
Live with the Versailles quartet expanded to six, Phoenix raised their game to a startling new level... more

Annie Leibovitz staves off financial disaster in £15m deal

09.03.10
Annie Leibovitz, whose subjects have included the Queen, Michelle Obama and John Lennon, has been bailed out for the second time in a £15million deal that will force her to sort out her chaotic finances... more

Minister’s niece slashed throat of lover then told police: I am a monster

11.01.10
Niece of defence minister Quentin Davies slashed the throat of her younger lover before telling police: 'I am a monster'... more

Gordon Ramsay’s £4.3m nightmare: new accounts reveal empire’s losses

11.01.10
Full gruesome details of the financial disaster that almost destroyed Gordon Ramsay’s business empire are laid bare... more

Carla Bruni, a very modern Marie Antoinette

29.10.09
France's leading society magazine has produced a devastating portrait of Carla Bruni as the country's new Marie Antoinette.... more

High kicks in Colombia

02.09.09
Reckon you can salsa? Jane Cornwell did, before she tried to cut it on the dance floors of Cali, where being a salsero is a way out of the ghetto... more

Pints and Pimms in the great outdoors

22.07.09
Beer gardens get a makeover with treehouses, cabanas, fountains - and good food... more

‘Harrods of the antiques world’ falls victim to the recession

21.07.09
Fine art dealership known as the Harrods of the antique world has gone into administration... more

Retreat from Paris

01.07.09
A new exhibition opening next week celebrates the forest of Fontainebleau that inspired the Barbizon painters. Philippa Stockley follows in their footsteps... more

Mean machine from Kensington Wine Rooms

21.05.09
The Kensington Wine Rooms re-invents the wine bar just about ideally, according to David Sexton.... more

Baroque and roll at the V&A

01.04.09
The French invented the Baroque style in the 17th century as an exercise in economic stimulus - and it went on to rule the world... more

Gossip makes the world go round - thank God

24.10.08
IF THERE'S one invitation I regret turning down it's the one that Lord Rothschild extended to me on the request of Countess Maya Schoenburg... more

V&A leads celebration of 'dazzling' age

20.10.08
London is set to go Baroque next year when the Victoria and Albert Museum heads a cavalcade of events celebrating the style epitomised by Louis XIV's palace at Versailles... more

Murano goes back to roots

27.08.08
Head chef Angela Hartnett's Italian heritage shines through in her superb cooking at Murano - the latest venture from Gordon Ramsay.... more

This isn't the first threat to Greenwich's glorious park

31.07.08
With growing fears that Olympic equestrian events may damage the ancient beauty of Greenwich Park, residents are campaigning to get Olympic chiefs to amend their plans... more

This isn't the first threat to Greenwich's glorious park

30.07.08
With growing fears that Olympic equestrian events may damage the ancient beauty of Greenwich Park, residents are campaigning to get Olympic chiefs to amend their plans... more

Kamikaze Girls is full of oddball eastern promise

05.06.08
Tetsuya Nakashima's film, Kamikaze Girls, is acted with real panache and directed with a wonderful sense of absurdity. ... more

Gordon’s French frolics

23.04.08
Ramsay has fun trying to outdo the top Paris restaurants in their own back yard – but some of his culinary quips fall flat.... more

'I'll help to end the f***ing disgrace that is Heathrow'

27.03.08
Whoever said "it is better to travel than to arrive" never went to Heathrow on a bank holiday weekend... more

Scandalous splendour

20.11.07
The Theatres Of Life exhibition depicts the lives of the aristocracy, their tastes in high fashion and their enjoyment of decadent living.... more

Dresses that lifted the post-war blues

19.09.07
The V&A's nicely designed exhibition of 107 pieces, 90 per cent from its own collection, covers the Golden Age of Couture.... more

Honed to a fine pointe

12.06.07
Sofiane Sylve couldn't turn down the lead role in Swan Lake at the Royal Albert Hall - "it's the role every little girl dreams of dancing when she takes up ballet", she tells Keith Watson.... more

Cover-up that's a real art

03.04.07
The Imperial War Museum's exhibition into the development of military camouflage is revealing even to those who did National Service, says Brian Sewell.... more

DVDs of the week

28.02.07
This week's top releases include Oscar winner Andrea Arnold's first feature, a French and Saunders series, and a bonkers Japanese exploitation flick.... more

A Lady Di from the 18th century

19.10.06
Marie Antoinette is based partly upon Antonia Fraser's biography but mostly on director Sofia Coppola's imagination. And, just when things are getting really interesting, the film fades to black. ... more


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