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

Why confront the ugly lie of Islamic State with a tacky fake?

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)

The genius of Cecil Beaton’s interiors

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…

I’ve just met the future Mrs Taki — again

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…