Pensioner stunned as old vase kept in a shoebox fetches £381,000
Unnamed UK buyer pays record sum for Hans Coper piece – bought for £250 in the 1970s – suggesting a boom in ceramics market
The Guardian
Make mine a magnum: the rise of supersize wine bottles in Britain
Waitrose reports sales have doubled as larger bottles move into the mainstream
Logomania: from straight fashion statement to something a lot more complex
In fashion, logos can be status symbols, signs of resistance or more recently, markers of irony. This spring, it’s all about cutting them up – literally – and starting again
• See our fashion shoot of logos from the spring/summer 2018 catwalks
• Read more from the spring/summer 2018 edition of The Fashion, our biannual fashion supplement
Perfect prams for perfect parents: the rise of the bougie buggy
How the rise of the luxury pram capitalised on the status anxiety of a new generation of parents
By Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
Totally Mexico: how fashion stole Frida Kahlo
A new V&A exhibition examines the artist’s enduring image. But is fashion’s co-opting of her aesthetic reductive or true to her maverick spirit?
Hubert de Givenchy: an elegant master of devastating chic
He dressed Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Kennedy and forged a timeless style for a golden age