US fashion brand Michael Kors to stop using animal fur

Move to adopt synthetic fibres comes six months after protesters heckle designer at New York speech

Taste for champagne falls flat as half of Britons put £10 cap on fizz

Prosecco and cava popularity still bubbling up as austerity leaves buyers unwilling to splash out on luxury French product

V&A futuristic exhibition: from a drone to clean oil spills to a towel-folding robot

Museum plans 2018 exhibition, called The Future Starts Here, exploring how groundbreaking technologies could change the world

Pirelli goes down the rabbit hole with all-black cast for 2018 calendar

Styled by new Vogue editor Edward Enninful, next year’s calendar stars Naomi Campbell, Duckie Thot and others to tell the story of Alice in Wonderland

Developers fight on to make famed Edinburgh neoclassical building into luxury hotel

Urbanist Hotels’ latest appeal against its rejected plans for Old Royal High School reopens battle with group wanting site for St Mary’s Music School