Show time: the 2019 shortlist for museum of the year

From the V&A Dundee to the Pitt Rivers in Oxford, public figures including Kirsty Wark and Matthew Rhys champion their favourite museums

V&A car exhibition to mark ‘most important 20th century object’

Museum will feature 15 vehicles from the Ford Model T to the Patent-Motorwagen No 3

V&A to name photography gallery after Sir Elton John and David Furnish

Museum ‘immensely grateful’ for significant donation from singer and his husband

Still fresh as a daisy: Mary Quant’s era-defining fashion

Her exuberant clothes catered to women’s new sense of freedom in the 60s and a V&A retrospective shows Mary Quant is as relevant as ever

• My Mary Quant gem: women on the treasures they donated

New order: the best young designers to look out for this season

What label has everyone talking with its inflatable toy-inspired clothes? And which designer is making pearls a thing for spring? This season, we have the answers

  • Read more from the spring/summer 2019 edition of The Fashion, our biannual fashion supplement

Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams review – style over substance?

V&A, London
A celebration of the Paris fashion house has plenty of gorgeous frocks on display but fails to pin down its founder’s legacy