Plastic is so over. So why do some fashion houses still treat it as cool?

The catwalk positively oozes fossil fuel just as we begin to uncouple our lives from it

America’s costliest house: developer takes $500m gamble on Bel Air eyrie

Niles Niami specialises in homes for the super-rich. All he needs is a billionaire to snap up his LA hilltop mansion called The One

Caviar care home: retirement complex for ‘oligarchs’ to open in Chelsea

Critics attack sale of council nursing home site to make way for world’s most-expensive care home complex

Wines with altitude

Pristine and fresh wines which have been grown in mountain vineyards

Copycat culture: is it wrong to clone a beloved dead pet?

Barbra Streisand has revealed that she has created copies of her dog – but the ethics should give others paws for thought

Can UK designer Paul Surridge save Roberto Cavalli’s leopard prints?

The film Basic Instinct has inspired Surridge’s second collection for the Italian brand