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The strange potency of cheap perfume

8 February 2025 9:00 am

Adelle Stripe has constructed a memoir around 18 key fragrances, but it is the Body Shop’s cheery Dewberry that evokes her worst teenage experience

French fancies

1 October 2022 9:00 am

Mrs Harris Goes to Paris is a comedy-drama based on the 1958 novel by Paul Gallico about a cheerful, kind-hearted…

John Galliano at Paris Fashion Week 2010

Bad boys of fashion

7 February 2015 9:00 am

Philip Hensher explores a dangerously intoxicating world, and discovers just how quickly famous designers can become an irrelevance