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Outdoor entertaining can be made more so by lavish tents and their near relatives out in the market
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Keeping up appearances
A little bit of optimistic flamboyance will make the right fashion statement during a financial crisis
Pièces de résistance
The hairpiece is back. Edwina Ings-Chambers says bird’s nest-sized buns, huge chignons and tight curls provide instant glamour
Brave new pearl
Unique materials, new techniques and bold innovations are redefining contemporary jewellery
The noses in the know
Perhaps people now have a need for exclusivity and speciality when it comes to fragrances, writes Edwina Ings-Chambers
A midlife crisis of a handbag
Susie Boyt has fallen half in love with a huge Chanel handbag. Gaudy, flashy and cheap-looking, it’s as brash and as bold as a bag could be
Flirt, marry, merge
‘Skin+Bones’, an exhibition at London’s Somerset House, attempts to expose the symbiosis between architecture and fashion, writes Edwin Heathcote
A contemporary marriage
Miuccia Prada symbolises perfectly the dizzying merger of fashion and art. The designer tells Peter Aspden about her plan to house a 500-piece collection at the Prada Foundation’s new headquarters
Costumed dramas
Superhero attire is designed to conceal a secret ‘identity’, but it often functions as a magic screen on to which the repressed narrative may be projected
Why mother knows best
A parent’s job needn’t just be helping the child to grow up – the primary concern should be making the child’s life as lovely as possible, writes Susie Boyt
Smoothed operators
Business travellers have fewer excuses to arrive in rumpled suits as new technology provides everything from climate control to crease resistance
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