Cannes 2017 awards: visceral power overlooked in favour of bourgeois vanity

The Square was a decent pick for the Palme d’Or but there were disappointments: notably the jury’s failure to get fully behind the outstanding Russian film Loveless

Millennial ‘influencers’ who are the new stars of web advertising

Beauty vloggers and cult celebrities are being courted by luxury brands

Jaguar Land Rover posts record sales thanks to demand in China and US

UK’s biggest car manufacturer sold 604,009 vehicles in 12 months to end of March, the most in its 95-year history

Jean-Michel Basquiat breaks US art record with £85m sale

Painting by Basquiat, who died aged 27, is most expensive at auction of any US artist, also breaking record for a black artist

V&A makes case for the rebellious beauty of Balenciaga

It is milder than McQueen, but there are monsters, ghosts and glamour in the museum’s account of a fashion giant

In the Cannes superyacht-off, size isn’t everything

Forget the film festival: the real showdownø on the Côte d’Azur is between Abramovich’s Eclipse and the Barclay Brothers’ Lady Beatrice