From Bruegel to Nabokov and The Silence of the Lambs, butterflies have flitted through our imaginations and into our culture. Patrick Barkham pins up the choice specimens – and finds out why new film The Duke of Burgundy is awash with them
Gucci showed clothes for Wes Anderson bookworms rather than sunbathers. Versace got digital with hashtags. Milan – fashion’s most classic capital – is out to reinvent itself
David Marks: ‘Our house and our livelihoods were on the line. Then – in front of the world’s media – it didn’t lift up’
They’ve starved, stripped and suffocated. We’ve seen them sleep, do shopping and read out lists. Now, PJ Harvey wants us to watch her record a whole album while she sits in a big box. Time to pack in art’s most claustrophobic trend?
The Grand Budapest Hotel has been nominated for nine Oscars – if only there was one for ‘best location’ so the eastern German town where it was filmed could win
Olivier Rousteing, the fashion house’s 28-year-old creative director, explains why he’s obsessed with social media and star power