Lab-grown leather is coming, but is the industry ready for it?
A startup, Modern Meadow, is attempting to develop a biomaterial alternative to leather as prices rise. Will it succeed – and will it have a market?
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Yoko Ono: ‘To be an artist you need courage’
For more than 50 years Yoko Ono has been campaigning – for peace, for feminism, for gun control and, most recently, against fracking. This tireless activism, she says, is at the heart of her work as an artist. Alex Needham meets her at home in New York
From basic hair to dirty-stop-out chic: summer style lessons from couture
Haute couture is fashion at its most eye-wateringly expensive and extravagant – but, from mussing up your ponytail to reclaiming pink, some of the shows’ strongest styling tips can be adopted for free
Body building: welcome to Beyoncé towers
Queen Bey’s curves have inspired a new skyscraper. But it’s by no means the only superstar-shaped building out there
Donna Karan’s greatest fashion achievements
The US designer is leaving the helm of the fashion house she launched in the mid-1980s. From designing clothes for real women to championing a female president, this is why she will be missed
Versace couture fashion show: Paris wowed by show of chiffon-clad strength
Designer Donatella Versace’s latest collection was an extravagent show marked out by an abundance of orchids and a vulnerable, medieval vision of femininity