Alessandro Michele, Gucci’s phenomenon, receives the prestigious International Fashion Designer of the Year award

Gucci’s Alessandro Michele receives the prestigious International Fashion Designer of the Year award at the 2015 British Fashion Awards. Gucci powerhouse currently ranks No.2 in the global luxury goods market. Creative Director Alessandro Michele has a very big contribution to these results. Taking the reins as Creative Director back in January 2015, his appointment marked a brave … Read more

Garance Doré on what makes the French so chic: ‘Elegance is refusal’

The fashion icon and daughter of immigrants grew up in Corsica and made it to the top of the fashion world. One thing is certain: she’s not going back to France

Swiss couple Iwan and Manuela Wirth top art power list

Wirths praised for changing model of how art is bought and sold, while Ai Weiwei ranks second and Nicholas Serota falls to fifth

Green news roundup: coral die-off, wildlife in Chernobyl and Africa’s largest windfarm

The week’s top environment news stories and green events. If you are not already receiving this roundup, sign up here to get the briefing delivered to your inbox

What’s new in ski resorts for the 2015/16 season …

Sleeping in an igloo, the creation of the US’s biggest ski area, a high-speed rail link to the Alps… we round up the season’s developments

Ai Weiwei, Julian Assange and graffiti grannies – the week in art

Ai Weiwei and the Celts conquer London. Plus extraordinary outsider artists, endangered buildings and the real Alice in Wonderland – in your weekly dispatch