From the joy of capes to the great tights uprising: seven style lessons from couture

This season’s high-fashion shows have schooled us on hosiery, eggs and what the industry is determinedly calling ‘athevening’. Here’s everything we learned from the Paris catwalks

Rosenthal meets Versace in Baroque Punk and La Medusa tea ceremony

Rosenthal “Baroque Punk” Limited Edition porcelain set and “La Medusa” Limited Edition. Tradition meets rebellion in the fresh new limited edition tea sets from Rosenthal meets Versace. Limited to only 49 pieces and designed for an original tea ceremony, Baroque Punk Limited Edition and La Medusa Limited Edition are bold and innovative, the essence of … Read more

Versace stops the traffic in Milan with a twist on camouflage

Donatella Versace mixes camouflage with leopard-print swirls and mines military garb and shades of khaki for the label’s spring/summer collection

Love to hate luxury property in London? This is why you’re wrong

Luxury high-rises like the Aykon Tower, ‘poor doors’ and off-plan sales to the overseas super-rich can all play a role in tackling the city’s housing crisis

First private residence project of scale in London fully designed by a luxury fashion house

Versace Home for London’s Aykon Nine Elms fashion residences. There is a huge appetite for luxury property investments in London. Luxury real estate developer Dico UK Property Holdings, a wholly owned subsidiary of Damac International Limited, has announced the first of its fashion residences in London with a 50-storey, 360 unit project with interior designs … Read more

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