Chateau shuffle-off: Alain Ducasse’s final meal

It has to be the gardens of Versailles in springtime, when nature is at its most generous, and offers an abundance of green and white vegetables

London prime shop rents leap 9% in last quarter of 2015

Luxury retailers battle for prime central sites in trend towards operating fewer but more high-profile stores

From the joy of capes to the great tights uprising: seven style lessons from couture

This season’s high-fashion shows have schooled us on hosiery, eggs and what the industry is determinedly calling ‘athevening’. Here’s everything we learned from the Paris catwalks

Rags and riches: John Galliano’s Martin Margiela collection

At this Paris catwalk show, the philosophy of Maison Margiela was clear: to unpick fashion rather than use it to brandish wealth

The World’s Most Expensive Food review: ‘Escargot pearls’? The super-rich will eat anything if it’s pricey enough

I’m enjoying television’s obsession with obscene wealth – the rich may as well amuse and entertain the rest of us, as well as themselves

Directorless Dior proves it does not do turmoil in classic haute couture show

Three months after Raf Simons’ departure, show at Musée Rodin evokes Dior’s eternal muse: the spontaneous, relaxed Parisienne