Lanvin fashion house appoints second artistic director in two years
Appointment of ‘e-couture’ expert viewed as an attempt to relaunch historic fashion house for a digital audience following Bouchra Jarrar’s exit
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Former Paris stock exchange to be reborn as major new art museum
François Pinault, the billionaire luxury brand owner, will convert the 19th century Bourse de commerce into art museum with architect Tadao Ando
New Jeff Koons sculpture is tribute to victims of Paris attacks
Bouquet of Tulips, currently being built, is to be installed on the plaza outside the Museum of Modern Art next year
Stella McCartney’s flashmob finale ditches strutting for dancing
McCartney cut through the Paris fashion week tension with an open-hearted show that took a strong ethical stance
Furniture that destroys forests: crackdown on ‘rampant’ trade in rosewood
Cites summit moves to protect the world’s most trafficked wild product by placing all 300 species of the tree under trade restrictions
Bulgari’s €1.5m restoration of Rome’s Spanish Steps hit by delays
Economic woes and bureaucracy hold up work on city’s attraction, leaving it closed at height of tourist season