Fur is back – would you wear it?
Nearly 70% of fashion designers used fur in their autumn/winter 2013 collections. Is fur still taboo, or will it soon be seen on the high street?
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Qataris stake their claim to a place at the top table of global dealmaking
With an eclectic list of interests united only by a belief in investing for the long term, the emirate’s sovereign wealth fund is being taken seriously at last
Billionaires’ basements: the luxury bunkers making holes in London streets
A new billionaires’ craze for building elaborate subterranean extensions is making swiss cheese of London’s poshest streets – but at what cost?
Top 10 guide to the Alsace wine route
Alsace marks the end of the grape harvest with a host of festivals in October, making it the perfect time to visit the vineyards and villages along France’s famous wine route
Kim Jones interview: the beauty of menswear
Alice Fisher meets Kim Jones, the brilliant, bashful and very street-savvy designer who reinvented Louis Vuitton menswear
A bag of Cox’s and the champion of cheddars
Sturminster Newton, Dorset: Among the familiar barrel-shaped rounds, the shallow wheels of a Leicestershire maker’s cheeses were a curiosity