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Flights of fancy: backstage at the Paris couture shows

05.02.10
Shows in concrete bunkers, unicorn shoes and Casiraghis dancing by candlelight; the world of haute couture is changing. Today the clients are younger and the designs sexier, but fantasy and decadence still reign... more

CDs of the week

05.02.10
Gil Scott-Heron is back after too long away and it has been seven years in the offing since Massive Attack were on the scene.... more

Being neither fish nor fowl, New Look ain’t made to float

04.02.10
New Look is not cheap enough to be Primark but it’s not enough of a label to warrant its higher prices... more

Strike cancels flights at Paris airports

14.01.10
Flights in and out of Paris’s Roissy-Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports are cancelled because of a strike by air traffic controllers... more

Kingfisher pulling its listing in Paris

22.12.09
Kingfisher, owner of the B&Q DIY stores and Comet electrical chain, today said it was cancelling its listing from the Paris stock exchange due to a "low level of trading"... more

Terminal 2 checks in last passengers

23.11.09
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Schoolgirl lost fingers in art class accident

12.10.09
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Sample some seasonal French dressing

06.10.09
The fashion circus ramps up the glamour for fashion week in Paris. But even the biggest style slaves draw the line at shoulder pads... more

Girl, 17, held for Paris bank raid

20.08.09
An audacious raid on a Paris bank by a gang led by a blonde, gun-toting teenage girl was foiled when her henchmen 'mucked things up', French police said... more

Airline to auction superjumbo tickets for charity

03.08.09
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Kylie Minogue's harem fashion

30.07.09
Kylie Minogue tried a breezy new Eastern look as she indulged in retail therapy in Paris. ... more

Gatwick shut for emergency landing of plane filled with smoke

24.07.09
Relieved passengers leave a plane after an emergency landing at Gatwick... more

How Vélib scheme made Paris fall in love with the bicycle

01.07.09
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Futurism imperfect at Tate Modern

18.06.09
It was a revolutionary movement that boasted of creating a new beauty — but the Futurism exhibition at the Tate misses many of its big moments.... more

Paris on track for 'strike-proof' train

15.06.09
The busiest underground line in Paris is to be given a multi-million-pound overhaul which will make it "strike-proof" and streamlined... more

F22 fighter withdrawn from Paris in spy row

15.06.09
Depressed it may be in the teeth of the worst slump in history but the much-awaited fixture of the aviation industry, the Paris Air Show, took off amid a Franco-American spying row... more

Christine Ohuruogu enjoys the perfect return

12.06.09
Athletics: Olympic champion Christine Ohuruogu breezed to victory in her first 400metres race since last September at the Montreuil International in Paris... more

Briton ‘on the run’ after his lover’s battered body found in Paris hotel

28.05.09
A British businessman was on the run after his Polish ‘girlfriend’ was found battered to death in their £1,000-a-night Paris hotel room... more

British businessman on the run after police found girlfriend battered to death

28.05.09
A British businessman was on the run after his Polish ‘girlfriend’ was found battered to death in their £1,000-a-night Paris hotel room... more

Lily Allen's band trash hotel room after boozefest

19.05.09
Lily Allen has boasted that her backing band trashed a hotel room in Paris.... more

Virginie Ledoyen: ten years after starring in The Beach

05.05.09
Still reigning over French cinema ten years after she set sail for The Beach, Virginie Ledoyen grants Janine di Giovanni an audience...... more

St Laurent's Deco armchair sells for a record £19m

26.02.09
The three-day sale in Paris of the paintings, furniture and objets d’art of Yves St Laurent ended last night in record prices and a stampede out of money into art... more

Mobs arrested as rioters call for 'Sarko out'

30.01.09
At least 30 alleged rioters were due in court after serious disturbances brought chaos to Paris... more

High fashion strikes gold in the East

28.01.09
ES Magazine's spies at the couture shows in Paris report that the atmosphere is "febrile" and that new clients are jostling with each other for the best seats... more

Armani rolls out the red carpet in Paris in Paris

27.01.09
Forget hemlines and lipstick sales: the most reliable indicator of the economy is the celebrity front row... more

Suddenly Britain is more to my taste

06.01.09
I have long been suspicious of the joys of British holidays... more

Madejski's Degas sculpture expected to make £12m

06.01.09
Businessman Sir John Madejski is selling an important sculpture by French impressionist Edgar Degas... more

Just now, it's OK to be American in Paris

14.11.08
The surrealness of it struck me yesterday at Bon Marché. The man at the exchange counter, usually so surly, asked me my nationality. I got ready to do the usual: bowing my head with shame and whispering so no one could hear: "Americaine".... more

I'm glad I know my greengrocer's name

31.10.08
Every Friday I have a ritual in my neighbourhood. It's the day I connect with the local shopkeepers and keep in their good graces... more

Dealer's choice for Aimé Maeght

03.10.08
A new show of works from Aimé Maeght's collection fails to ask where and how he got the pictures, says Brian Sewell.... more

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