Karl Lagerfeld receives Paris honour at Chanel’s greatest hits show
German designer awarded city’s highest award as autumn/winter haute couture collection deploys classic Chanelisms
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Major Paris exhibition celebrates 70 years of Dior fashions
Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams also shows off the work of his successors such as John Galliano and Maria Grazia Chiuri
Haute couture fashion week gets pastels, petals and pinkness
The Rodarte show was set in a 16th-century cloister at Port-Royal Abbey – a crumbling square around a lush, overgrown garden
Former Paris stock exchange to be reborn as major new art museum
François Pinault, the billionaire luxury brand owner, will convert the 19th century Bourse de commerce into art museum with architect Tadao Ando
Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition showcases the world
Annual show includes works by Tracey Emin and Cornelia Parker, with emerging artists from DRC, Peru, Spain and India
In the Cannes superyacht-off, size isn’t everything
Forget the film festival: the real showdownø on the Côte d’Azur is between Abramovich’s Eclipse and the Barclay Brothers’ Lady Beatrice