Mulberry to bring in cheaper handbags for price-conscious British customers
New boss Godfrey Davis said the company had got it wrong by following its luxury goods rivals in continually putting up prices
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Venetians fight to save historical, ‘haunted’ island from luxury developers
Poveglia, a deserted 7-hectare rock believed to be the burial place of plague victims, to be leased to help pay Italy’s debts
Queen’s old toys among items to go on display in exhibition of royal childhood
Buckingham Palace exhibition will offer small glimpse into toy boxes and wardrobes of generations of young royals
French historians battle to save face of La Samaritaine
Opponents complain that new glass facade planned as part of redevelopment of Paris landmark will look like a shower curtain
Illegal python skins feed hunger for fashionable handbags and shoes
Python farms could be the antidote to the $1bn-a-year black market in these fashionable and expensive skins
From bomb sites to Bulgari: V&A falls under the spell of Italian glamour
A new exhibition charts how postwar Italy transformed the world’s perceptions of it, using its greatest export: style