The Queen's diamond jubilee is to be celebrated with an exhibition of nearly 100 portraits by photographer Cecil Beaton at the Victoria & Albert Museum... more
The Queen's Diamond Jubilee next year is being celebrated by the National Portrait Gallery with 60 images spanning her reign. The show will tour Britain before coming to London... more
Patrick Procktor was a flamboyant, witn society in the 1960s and 1970s. But the artist’s life was blighted by alcohol and jealousy. Gavanndra Hodge paints a portrait of a peacock... more
Yves Saint Laurent’s former make-up director Terry de Gunzburg explains the science behind her miraculous cosmetics which use 24-carat pink gold to lift the skin... more
Lucian Freud gives a rare interview about dancing with Greta Garbo, photographing Adolf Hitler, getting into debt with the Krays and being kept waiting by Kate Moss... more
Nicky Haslam has been to more parties than anyone and knows how to make an evening fizz: start planning three months ahead; decorate the ceiling; invite Paris Hilton; and never, ever engage the host in conversation... more
Never mind the six degrees of Kevin Bacon. Nicky Haslam's forthcoming memoirs, Redeeming Features, has set a whole new benchmark for the small world phenomenon... more
Of all the many adjectives applied to Victoria Beckham, 'sophisticated' has been one of the least used. Until now. Posh Spice is at last living up to her nickname with a glamorous yet refined photoshoot for Vogue, including her first cover. Posing in a series of flowing outfits accessorised with diamonds, the 33-year-old singer and fashion designer evokes memories of the young Princess Margaret, photographed for her 19th birthday by Cecil Beaton... more
Victoria Beckham has made it on to the cover of Vogue. The Spice Girl and aspiring fashionista is featured dripping in diamonds on the front of the April issue.... more
As Harry Potter's sidekick Hermione Granger, she has little problem defending herself from the most wily of
wizards. But actress Emma Watson appeared to fall under the spell of hell-raising rock singer Johnny Borrell when she met him at a London fashion party
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From Kylie Minogue and masterpieces of Impressionism to an invasion of Chinese dance companies, the next 12 months will be a treat for London's arts lovers.... more
Despite his limited palette and deliberately banal subject matter, photographer Emil Otto Hoppé can and does manage to extract drama from the mundane, says Nina Caplan.... more
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