Natassja Ebert(Credit: Natassja Ebert)From making history as Vogue's youngest-ever fashion editor to creating a gown fit for a Kennedy wedding – which would end up covered in grass stains – Vera Wang chronicles her career's surprising trajectory and shares some...
Lucia Iuorio/ Netflix(Credit: Lucia Iuorio/ Netflix)Lampedusa's mid-20th-Century novel The Leopard became a bestseller, then a revered film – and is now a lavish Netflix series. Its withering takedown of society's flaws and hypocrisies still hits home today."Dying for somebody or...
Alamy/ Getty Images/ Netflix(Credit: Alamy/ Getty Images/ Netflix)Meghan's new Netflix series in which she offers cooking and home tips arrives next week. She's just the latest high-profile woman to present herself as a lifestyle guru – and divide opinion in...
AlamyA new revival of Christopher Marlowe's pioneering play about the 14th-Century King of England puts the spotlight back on his relationship with his male "favourite" Piers Gaveston.This week, at its base in Stratford-upon Avon, the world-famous Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC)...
Sydney Opera House (Getty Images)The building of the Sydney Opera House began on 2 March 1959. But when BBC Tonight visited the construction site in 1965, it was plagued by technical problems, soaring costs, vacillating public opinion and political infighting.In...
Natassja Ebert(Credit: Natassja Ebert)In the new series of Influential with Katty Kay, actress and model Brooke Shields opens up about spending nearly six decades in the spotlight and how she finally overcame her imposter syndrome.More than 40 years after Time...
Estate of Corinne Day/ Bridgeman ImagesAn iconic image of Kate Moss marked an explosive moment of change in Britain – and helped to create the culture we now live in. It's among the photographs displayed in a new exhibition that...
Warner Bros Entertainment IncRobert Pattinson stars as multiple clones in the South Korean film-maker's big-budget follow up to Parasite – and while the star himself is entertaining, the film as a whole is a mess.No best picture winner at the...
Bill Stettner(Credit: Bill Stettner)A new exhibition of more than 200 photographs charts 300 years of image-making in the US, showing how the country's history and photography have run in parallel.Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Washington (DCSelf-portrait (1840) by Henry...
Getty ImagesAhead of Kendrick Lamar's headline performance at the Super Bowl half-time show in New Orleans, we explore the rapper's journey from the unforgiving streets of Compton to pop culture ubiquity."I'm not sure why I'm infatuated with death?" ponders a...
