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Geoffroy de Lagasnerie says focus on friendships over relationships or family is radical act in today’s societyBuilding your life around close friendships rather than family or romance is a joyous and necessary act of rebellion, and governments should …
Boston Dynamics’ canine automatons steal show in Paris as maison stages modern fable, designers sayWelcome to the age of the super-robot.With their impossible proportions, thousand-yard stares and supernatural ability to walk in 5in heels, catwalk mode…
Royal Horticultural Society links spread of orchard infections to heatwave with trees still at riskThe UK’s fruit trees are under threat as a result of the climate crisis because plant diseases that thrive in warm weather are becoming more common.Each …
Designer Julien Dossena thanks maison’s founder, who died last month, for his ‘radical expression’In silver chainmail hoods and Perspex dresses, aluminium-foil suiting and gleaming white space boots, the faithful came to pay their respects. At the firs…
Camel, toffee and charcoal feature in Ukrainian collection created under Russian bombsYou would never guess from the immaculate tailoring and finely turned silhouettes of the Litkovska collection shown at Paris fashion week that its production was freq…
Fashion house upturns decade’s retrograde image with aesthetic of French muses The 1950s were much cooler than you think. That was the message as Paris fashion week opened with a Dior show that upturned that decade’s retrograde image. Instead of pastel…
Menopausal women could be offered paid time off as part of efforts to support wellbeing of womenMenopausal women could be offered paid time off and working environments with temperature-controlled areas under Labour plans to support the wellbeing of wo…
Latest census reveals 1.2m more unmarried 25- to 35-year-olds in England and Wales than in 2011A slump in the number of younger people getting married has sparked fresh calls to protect rights for those not in legally registered partnerships.Amid a con…
The elusive giant willow aphid goes into hiding in spring. Now the Royal Horticultural Society wants volunteers to help find out whyGardeners have been urged by scientists to help find a mysterious bug which disappears in spring and reappears at the en…
National Trust aims to inspire visitors to reapply forgotten skills to make their clothes more sustainableSome of the garments in the exhibition are made of elegant silk, others of rough-looking wool or scratchy nylon – but what they all have in common…