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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

Janet Street-Porter: from Parsons Green punk to Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells

22.10.09
Janet Street-Porter is still the voice of outrage but now she targets the Facebook generation, says Viv Groskop... more

Fashion fixtures: Ashley Cole, Didier Drogba and Florent Malouda

09.10.09
When it comes to the sport of shopping, the Chelsea boys are top of the league. Hermione Eyre sneaks into the locker room to tackle the sensitive subject of style with Didier Drogba, Florent Malouda and Ashley Cole... more

The male Kate Moss: Jamie Dornan

04.09.09
Top model Jamie Dornan reads modern philosophy and wants to be an actor, so why do people only want to talk to him about oiling up and his grooming technique? ... more

Autumn's finest fashion trends

18.08.09
The shops are full of new clothes for autumn and you need to move fast. But you can’t buy until you decide which look to go for. We give you a seasonal lowdown...... 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

WORLD: Carla Bruni and Nicolas Sarkozy spends £660 a day on flowers

21.07.09
Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni have been ordered to cut back after it emerged they were spending more than £660 a day on flowers... more

In search of the good life in SW3 - the It Girl who went green

09.07.09
She’s ditched her car, given up flying, flushes the loo with rainwater and keeps chickens on the roof . . . This is the reformed It Girl It Girl who’s going carbon-neutral in Chelsea... more

The world goes Coco Chanel crazy

11.05.09
She liberated women from the corset. Her friends included Cocteau, Picasso and Chaplin. No wonder Coco Chanel (1883-1971) is the muse for the coolest names in fashion... more

We pay as RBS gives a window to protesters

02.04.09
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Let them meet Kate! Spirit of Marie Antoinette at Chanel

10.03.09
At the Chanel show guests gleaned final confirmation of a fact they had suspected for some time: that the front row is more important than the clothes... more

Kate and the Brits toast their victory with fizz and a fry-up

23.02.09
Our homegrown stars partied into the early hours today but, at Hollywood’s biggest celebration, nothing was more intoxicating than success. Nick Curtis and John Arlidge report... more

I owe it to my grandfather not to join the rush to Aldi

15.01.09
Thanks to my grandad, a proud Thatcherite grocer from Amersham, I have always been something of an expert on price comparison. I'm also a food snob. I was taught always to buy the best you can afford. But how do you define that in a recession? ... more

Conran still pushing the boundaries

14.01.09
Sir Terence Conran's latest venture, Boundary Restaurant and Bar, is the ideal he has pursued all his working life.... more

'Thrift' won't cut it when the recession starts to bite

24.10.08
Five years ago, at the height of the folly, India Knight published a book called The Shops: How, Why and Where to Shop... more

When the going gets tough, hit the shops

09.10.08
As the financial markets dip up and down, anything feels possible and suddenly life seems very harsh... more

War of the Devonshires in The Duchess

04.09.08
Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes are convincing as ill-matched aristocrats in Saul Dibb's period drama, The Duchess, says Charlotte O'Sullivan.... more

Exceedingly Posh cakes: Heidi Klum has given Victoria Beckham a year's supply of cupcakes as a birthday gift

10.05.08
They are calling it the Marie Antoinette diet. And even Victoria Beckham, who strives to be Hollywood's most fashionable – and thinnest – woman, has become a convert to the latest food fad: the cult of the cupcake. Victoria fell under the spell of the brightly coloured cakes after supermodel Heidi Klum gave her a year's supply for her 34th birthday ... more

Fast nosh just got posh...

26.03.08
Inspired by Harrods’ £30 Pot Noodle, we track down London’s jazziest junk food and attempt to find the top posh nosh spots.... more

Cheerful but not cheap

23.01.08
It doesn't get much swankier than Alberico at Aspinalls, a place where the high prices create a virtual guest list.... more

Let them eat bread

02.01.08
The food is overpriced and the service sullen and slow at Mediterraneo, says Mark Bolland.... more

Simply irresistable

25.05.07
His voice is a thing of gorgeous wonder: give Simply Red another decade, says John Aizlewood, and Mick Hucknall will be a national treasure. ... more

Spidey moves over to the darker side

03.05.07
Our superhero in Spider-Man 3 makes a thrilling spectacle of himself - but this time he's too serious, says Derek Malcolm.... more

Tom's place is a victim of its own success

19.03.07
Frank Lampard, John Terry and Joe Cole all dine at Tom's Kitchen, a restaurant so popular that there's a chance the Chelsea footballers might miss a game while they're waiting to be served. ... 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 wacky take on the 18th century

21.02.07
Theatrical artist Karen Kilimnik's solo exhibition at the Serpentine is a sort of rapid-fire 18th-century conversation piece.... more

The Bafta nominations in full

12.01.07
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Who'll be the stars of the arts in 2007?

02.01.07
Our critics introduce the names to watch out for over the next 12 months - the ones you won’t have heard of before, the ones that you’ll suddenly see everywhere – and the one the critics will love best in 2007.... more

Middle class boy with a dark side

07.11.06
Actor Tom Hardy, who stars in Scenes of a Sexual Nature and Marie Antoinette, tells Nick Curtis about the multiple addictions that ended his marriage and threatened his career.... 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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