Many of Paris’s museum cafes and restaurants now offer a lot more than coffee and cake. You can now expect great food and magnificent art – and some take their cuisine so seriously they merit a visit in their own right
Autumn/winter 2015 ready to wear collection makes reference to heritage but patent boots, seen in couture show, add a sassy edge
Couture-in-bloom theme in Paris as designer showcases floral ideas, keeping it modern to the last
Paris’s gargantuan new concert hall is two years late, cost three times what it should, and its architect even snubbed its opening … Oliver Wainwright tackles a tyrannical new mothership
Being a nerd, geek or swot is now cool. Nerds have inspired fashion trends and TV programmes, and now there
The in-demand architect behind projects ranging from Parisian housing to Victoria Beckham’s Mayfair store talks about fashion, function and the power of physical space in a virtual world