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Milan Fashion Week: Gucci’s smart revamp ensures brain over brawn

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Alessandro Michele, the brand’s new creative director, begins work by discarding traditional glitz with a pared back, philosophically influenced womenswear show

This year’s development summits have many mountains to climb

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The central goal of the 2015 summits is to chart a course towards the eradication of extreme poverty, more equitable globalisation, and climate stability, writes Kevin Watkins

1970s fashions billow back on to red carpet at Baftas 2015

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Glamorous, louche and corset-free – the shapes of the let-it-all-hang-out decade have fans from Julianne Moore to Monica Bellucci

How Monet became blue chip: the language of wealthy art buyers

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Painting of the Grand Canal expected to fetch up to £30m, amid surging interest from super-rich in Asia and Middle East

Sales of printed books fall by more than £150m in five years

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New figures from Nielsen BookScan show continuing decline since 2009 as more and more readers migrate to ebooks