Raf Simons on life after Calvin Klein: ‘I’ve never defined myself as a fashion designer’

In one of his first interviews since leaving the New York fashion house, Simons talks about the joy of designing textiles for Danish fabric company Kvadrat and his plans to open an art foundation

Super supple, oversized and gender-neutral: xxl – Delvaux x Jean Colonna latest Brillant design

      Low-key and seductive, Delvaux’s latest Brillant bag called xxl is the result of a collaboration with French cult fashion designer of the 1990s Jean Colonna. Flexible and infused with a gender-neutral style, this is a bag that is for both men and women. Combining an intimate sense of luxury with a rock … Read more

‘The beauty of controversy’: Louis Vuitton closes Paris fashion week

Label embraces the unconventional with ‘ugly’ clothes on a catwalk based on the Pompidou Centre

Meghan effect on full display in Paris at Givenchy’s show

While the pregnant duchess was not in France for fashion week, the royal connection was keenly felt as the aristocratic was given a chic update

Koons apes the old masters and robots invade Edinburgh – the week in art

Jeff Koons heads to Oxford, Tracey Emin shows new work in London and the V&A debuts a sumptuous survey of Christian Dior – all in our weekly dispatch