From basic hair to dirty-stop-out chic: summer style lessons from couture

Haute couture is fashion at its most eye-wateringly expensive and extravagant – but, from mussing up your ponytail to reclaiming pink, some of the shows’ strongest styling tips can be adopted for free

The house always wins: Chanel show takes a spin at grand casino glamour

Karl Largerfeld’s Hollywoodification of fashion continues with Julianne Moore and Kristen Stewart adding to the cocktail chic at Paris’s Grand Palais

Body building: welcome to Beyoncé towers

Queen Bey’s curves have inspired a new skyscraper. But it’s by no means the only superstar-shaped building out there

Christian Dior is all abloom in nod to Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights

Raf Simons’ take on florals had little to do with the allure of flowers – his couture fashion show was instead a bold commentary on the commodification of beauty

Versace couture fashion show: Paris wowed by show of chiffon-clad strength

Designer Donatella Versace’s latest collection was an extravagent show marked out by an abundance of orchids and a vulnerable, medieval vision of femininity

Alwaleed bin Talal: meet the Saudi prince giving away all his money

The high-flying royal, who sued Forbes for ‘underestimating’ his fortune just years before handing it all to charity, seems to defy the cliches of a Saudi magnate