It’s handbags: accessory labels do battle at London fashion week
Mulberry’s catwalk return and fun designs from Anya Hindmarch and Hill & Friends raised stakes in a UK market worth £2.7bn
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La Macchina del Tempo: a journey through Alfa Romeo’s historic collection
In 2015, Italian car manufacturer Alfa Romeo celebrated its 105-year anniversary by opening its historical museum in Arese, Milan, Italy to the public. The museum – named “La macchina del tempo” hosts a bookshop, café, documentation centre, a test drive track, events venues and a show- room with a customer delivery area. Museo Storico Alfa Romeo … Read more
The problem with self-driving cars: who controls the code?
Should autonomous vehicles be programmed to choose who they kill when they crash? And who gets access to the code that determines those decisions?
The £30m bookshelf: Pierre Bergé and the greatest stories ever sold
With Impressionists on their walls and priceless books on their shelves, Pierre Bergé and his former partner Yves Saint Laurent were the ultimate collectors. But now the art and YSL have gone, Bergé says it’s time ‘to attend the funeral’ of his library
Museum of Tomorrow: a captivating invitation to imagine a sustainable world
Rio de Janeiro’s new museum, focusing on ideas rather than objects, ecology more than technology, is a little trippy, a little hippy, very worthy but rarely dull
From baroque to bling: how France became king of high style
In early modern Europe, as political power shifted, one country became a leader in luxury. Now the V&A’s new galleries reveal how, through conflict and colonialism, France gained its artistic supremacy