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Wall St collapse changes fashion

Top drawer ... Naomi Campbell / Reuters file THE fashion industry is being forced to change direction in search of revenue sources to make up for the millions in Wall Street bonuses that have gone up in smoke. With Western...

Revealed: Femme fatale Lily Cole's controversial nude cover for French Playboy

Not for the first time, Lily Cole is raising eyebrows and sending jaws to drop. The supermodel, who won a place at Cambridge and was linked to Jude Law and ageing crooner Bryan Ferry all within a year, has surprised once again...

The master of foot-in-mouth syndrome - Toby Young interview

Published Date: 03 October 2008 TOBY YOUNG still finds it difficult to explain why, on his first day on the job at Vanity Fair in New York, he chose to wear a T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan, "Young, dumb and full of come"...

Well heeled

By Carola Long Tuesday September 30 2008 Manolo Blahnik tumbles into the room wearing an extremely dapper royal-purple suit, purple and yellow knitted tie, orange suede shoes and black circular glasses à la Le Corbusier....

Well heeled: A rare audience with Manolo Blahnik

Manolo Blahnik tumbles into the room wearing an extremely dapper royal-purple suit, purple and yellow knitted tie, orange suede shoes and black circular glasses à la Le Corbusier. He stretches out his hand, and when I...

Underground Railroad - Sticks and Stones

What is it that makes French musicians so damn cool? Serge Gainsbourg was a drunk pervert who never found his musical niche, yet still managed to snag English Blow-Up beau Jane Birkin and earn himself the title of the...

'The perfume houses hate our guts'

Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez are amazed when I tell them that I rushed straight to Liberty and bought a bottle of Miller Harris's L'Air de Rien on their recommendation. The fragrance, created for Jane Birkin, gets four...

Lily Cole strips off for Playboy?

Lily to raunch things up in Playboy? Lily Cole is reportedly set to appear nude on the cover of the French Playboy magazine. The red-haired 20-year-old British model appears on the front of the October edition clutching a...

Hector Zazou: composer and producer of world music

The French-based composer and record producer Hector Zazou was a pioneering figure in the popularisation of “world music”. In the early 1980s he was one of the first to experiment with fusing African music with Western...

Lutz & Patmos

Tina Lutz and Marcia Patmos set their collection at the seaside at the start of summer. As they designed, they were imagining the opening of a beach house after a long, gray winter—letting in the light, taking that first...

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