Paris fashion week: Bouchra Jarrar shows she means business at Lanvin

New artistic director focuses on practicality and classic glamour at the Hôtel de Ville, a change perhaps inspired by falling profits

Vetements to relaunch its 2014 collection

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Governmental garçons: how politics turned French style on its head

A new book celebrating French style is coming out, just as France is changing its view on fashion. Blame Nicolas Sarkozy, blame the recent burkini ban, but French fashion is now all about boyishness

How brows became the beauty obsession of the decade

Fluffy, HD or microbladed, eyebrow grooming is a boom business thanks to icons such as Cara Delevingne

Foundation stone: leading architects on the homes that shaped them

How does your childhood home influence the one you make yourself? Seven leading architects look back at the foundations of their career

10 of the best foodie retreats in rural France

These charming B&Bs, guesthouses and gîtes offer comfortable pitstops on a French adventure, but with their mouth-watering regional food and wine they may prove hard to leave