Nicky Haslam

Soothing and glorious: Fashion Neurosis reviewed

22 February 2025 9:00 am

Sometimes the mind needs to take a break. And I can’t think of a better stopping-off place than the soothing,…

True or false? The Temple of Bel, Palmyra, before and after its destruction at the hands of Islamic State

The great pretenders

28 May 2016 9:00 am

Can the beauty of Palmyra be reproduced by data-driven robots? Stephen Bayley on copies, fakes and forgeries

Cecil Beaton with Mickey the cat, Reddish house (self-portrait)

Un-Beaton

15 November 2014 9:00 am

The odds were a hundred to one against him. Brought up in bourgeois Bayswater by genteel parents, Cecil Beaton was…

High life

19 July 2014 9:00 am

 Gstaad I write this on 14 July, France’s big day and the 25th anniversary of my father’s passing. He died…