UK’s first sustainable European oysters go on sale

Certified native oysters, prized for their fuller flavour, will be sold at branches of Whole Foods Market

Kaftans, round sunglasses and Dior: how the Royals won fashion

A reworked exhibition, looking at the progressive fashions of Princess Margaret, Princess Diana and the Queen over the years, proves how these three royals were style leaders

Will Kanye West triumph? Are the four fashion capitals over? New York fashion week is asking questions

A month of fashion shows for autumn/winter 2016 is about to begin, starting in New York on Thursday. Here are six things that will be the talk of the front row this season.

If we could create a Fashion Utopia, how would we want it to be? A flash-forward to the possibilities of multiple happier futures

Fashion Utopias: IFS 2016. Between 19 – 23 February 2016 the West Wing at Somerset House will be transformed into an imaginary terrain. Utopia 2016 is four seasons of activity celebrating the 500th anniversary of the publication of Thomas More’s Utopia. Published in Leuven in December 1516, More’s Utopia presented an imaginative and playful vision … Read more

Surreal estate: inside Margaret Thatcher’s Chester Square retreat

It’s received Ronald Reagan and other heads of state, and given its bombproof door perhaps other less savoury offerings, too

Burberry runway collections to be combined for two annual shows. Collections available to purchase immediately afterwards

Seasonless, immediate, and personal. Burberry announced plans to change the way it creates, presents and sells its runway collections. From September 2016, the British fashion empire will replace its current four show calendar with two shows. Seasonless, immediate, and personal, the new format and calendar have been designed with a global audience in mind. The … Read more