Dries Van Noten channelled 1950s glamazons, Balenciaga offered everyday couture, while Rick Owens transported showgoers to an alternative universe

The Conservative leader on wading into culture wars, why the Tories have been too ‘complacent’ about business — and ruling out a rightwing coalition with Reform

Four places to catch a seasonal display

A good cast and elegant set tell the story of the bad-mannered Bliss family — but this production is as shallow as its characters

As female buyers drive sales growth, the split is widening among brands between maintaining the category status quo and offering unisex designs

The watchmaker is building on historic connections with jewellers as pressure increases on the market for timepieces

The ratings-topping show is back with a starry and surreal cast, from Richard E Grant to Ross Kemp

The enigmatic photographs, videos, objects and texts on display in ‘Father Country I Do Love You’ are like a gallery version of the conspiracy buff’s corkboard

Dakota Johnson, Anne Hathaway and Josh Hartnett lead a glossy but appallingly scripted literary love-triangle thriller

A dazzling follow-up to ‘Demon Copperhead’ plunges us into the grief, yearning and disappointments of a once-promising pianist in rural Tennessee

Taking a chartreuse suit worn by Kate Moss for Prada as inspiration for the hub of the home is unorthodox, but the sentiment makes a statement

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The UK jeweller has boosted its long-term prospects after securing a cache of scarce pink stones from the defunct Australian mine

Simpson’s Tavern served City diners for more than two and a half centuries. After months of delays, difficult discoveries and a £1.3mn renovation, the opening of Cloth Cornhill has brought the historic site back to life

Patrick Radden Keefe’s ‘London Falling’ and Anand Gopal’s ‘Days of Love and Rage’ are joined by four works of biography, from Alexander the Great to James Baldwin

Disaster was averted on a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv after one pilot stabbed another

Where the key cards are each placed poorly, endplay mid-hand saves declarer

An oil rig triggers catastrophe in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s overblown satire of American bullishness

A timely biography strips away the myths of the muse and restores this 19th-century virtuoso to her rightful place in the Romantic canon

Istanbul’s annual cross-continental swimming race is no place for Byronic triumph

The UK rowing contest’s title sponsor is replicating the unisex approach of its J12 watch with the men’s and women’s cups

Anna Seidel on where to soak up the city’s banks, bookstores and radical creativity

Cynthia Shanmugalingam’s gloriously adaptable combination of rice, eggs and aromatic spices makes a virtue of whatever you have left to hand

Frieze highlights, foraged Martinis and Boodles’ new townhouse

The country’s current crop of craftsmakers is challenging not only age-old traditions but the speed of contemporary Korean culture

The British shoe brand celebrates its 10th birthday with a new store

Hengrui Pharma’s experimental drug could be taken just once a week

Sky’s swaggering eight-part series has a top-quality cast put to the service of some high-class fluff

Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says the 15 national museums and galleries ‘must be free, forever, for everyone to access’

Gaspare Spontini’s tale of a vestal virgin’s forbidden love once took Europe by storm. So why does this Handmaid’s Tale-inspired staging fall so flat?

In an unexpected plot twist, cinemas are back

Puzzle: what is White’s fastest winning move?

Nick Foulkes meets the modern alchemists

10 of the best EV converters

Demna offered retail therapy at Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana made the case for maximalism while Louise Trotter got crafty at Bottega Veneta