Rankin’s best photograph: a supermodel in a cow mask

‘I didn’t think models were being treated as people. So we borrowed a farm, put some in masks – and shot them in a cow barn then a pigsty’

Under wraps: the rise of the blanket-scarf

The autumn/winter catwalks had the trend for oversized scarves well covered. How did it become cool to be swaddled?

Thomas Heatherwick’s Coal Drops Yard – shopping in the Instagram age

Thomas Heatherwick’s ‘kissing’ roofs top a new high-end shopping mall in the old coal sheds. But why does the whole King’s Cross scheme not quite feel real?

The Meghan effect: can her ethical and sustainable fashion choices change lives?

The duchess pulls on a pair of skinny jeans … and up to 30 women rescued from human trafficking will be hired as seamstresses

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A portrait created by AI just sold for $432,000. But is it really art?

An image of Edmond de Belamy, created by a computer, has just been sold at Christie’s. But no algorithm can capture our complex human consciousness