Well, sometimes. Charlie Porter sorts the wearable from the weird as the catwalk shows draw to a close. Karl Lagerfeld is a canny man. Some designers never veer from their conceptual path, but ...

Already known for his incisive books on eighteenth-century France and the French Revolution, Higonnet will now be celebrated as the author of a beautifully produced work on the Paris of a century ago.

The distance races in the Stade de France brought some of the greatest moments of the 9th IAAF World Championships in Athletics, Paris 2003 Saint Denis (23 - 31 August), which concluded on Sunday ...