Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty review – superficially magnificent
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
A ravishing retrospective of the late designer’s work inspires awe, unease, frustration and covetousness
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Philharmonie de Paris: Jean Nouvel’s €390m spaceship crash-lands in France
Paris’s gargantuan new concert hall is two years late, cost three times what it should, and its architect even snubbed its opening … Oliver Wainwright tackles a tyrannical new mothership
Farshid Moussavi: ‘We are in a world where ideas migrate’
The in-demand architect behind projects ranging from Parisian housing to Victoria Beckham’s Mayfair store talks about fashion, function and the power of physical space in a virtual world
The Turner prize show: voices, videos and erotic tickling sticks
Has the Turner prize lost its power to shock? No – thanks to James Richards’s sphincter shots. But it’s Tris Vonna-Michell’s spellbinding spoken-word travelogues that deserve to win
Beauty: new hybrid foundations
‘Giorgio Armani’s Maestro proved such a game-changer that everyone ran off to try to better the original’
Dyson Cool AM06 review: is this the world’s most luxurious desk fan?
Arguably the best desk fan on the market, Dyson’s newest innovation is ambitious, powerful and very beautiful – but comes with a hefty price tag