Betty Halbreich: the most famous personal shopper in the world

The 86-year-old director of personal shopping for Manhattan’s Bergdorf Goodman department store tells us she hates trends and talks about her friendship with Joan Rivers and why she loves Lena Dunham but hasn’t seen Girls

Books inspire Burberry’s show at London Collections: Men

Christopher Bailey says collection’s starting point was a Bruce Chatwin first edition, meanwhile Craig Green ‘gets a bit deep’

The Hotel on Place Vendôme – review

Truffled antelope, anyone? Tilar J Mazzeo’s study of the Ritz hotel in Paris during Nazi occupation takes in sex, collaboration and Hermann Goring in a silk kimono

British Library to unveil £33m newspaper reading room

State-of-the-art facility will store more than three centuries of newspapers and magazines dating back to the English civil war

Arkaeology: the real meaning of the Noah story

The film Noah is outraging evangelicals. But with its hot rain, incest and castration, the biblical story is far wilder, finds Jenny Diski

• Noah: first look review