Forget the LBD: why you need a little velvet dress this season

There’s been a velvet revolution on the catwalk for autumn/winter and now it’s taking over the high street

Beats surrender: how headphones became the must-have accessory this Christmas

Mum, dad, kids, the professional footballers in your life … all will be happy this year with some ludicrously expensive cans

From Serbia to Morocco: my hunt to find Burberry fakes

Photographer Toby Leigh explains why he spent a decade hunting down fake Burberry checks, from Serbia to Morocco to north London

From Posh to classy: how Victoria Beckham won over fashion world

Hard graft, force of will – and cash to invest – helped turn former Spice Girl into a respected designer and businesswoman

Jacqueline de Ribes: fashion lessons from a French socialite

The French aristocrat, socialite and designer has spent six decades as a couture muse – and now her style is being celebrated at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York