Tag: The Observer
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Lauren Laverne on style: when art meets fashion
This year’s fashion is inspired by works of art. Choose paint splashes and bold prints to perfect the art of dressing
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Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined – review
Royal Academy, LondonThe Royal Academy’s ambitious look beyond the purely visual aspects of architecture is full of surprisesGallery: see some of the installations from Sensing Spaces
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Inside the billionaires’ superyachts: helipads, tennis courts and a missile defence system
Boat builders can now design almost anything that the mega-rich can imagine – but most just want room for a giant TV
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How the other half fly (to New York)
No tiresome queues, soggy sandwiches … what is it like to part of the A-list? Eva Wiseman reports from a luxury flight to New York (via Shannon)
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Can the burqa be stylish?
To some it’s an object of oppression, to others a graceful and modest form of expression. Elizabeth Day meets the women determined to make Islamic dress both a statement of choice – and fashion
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OFM awards 2013 outstanding contribution: Le Champignon Sauvage
David Everitt-Mathias, a pioneer of foraging and using cheaper cuts of meat, is the chef’s chef who has run one of Britain’s best restaurants for more than 25 years