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Luxury

Lost Its Lustre

The decline and hollowing-out of popular luxury fashion is a parable of late capitalism. Iain Overton reports

Luxury fashion is in retreat.

Once a byword for refinement and craft, it now totters in strangely-shaped shoes on the edge of self-parody.

What was designed to signal taste now risks looking gaudy, hollow, and faintly absurd.

Jeffrey Epstein: Steve Bannon’s ‘Mr Fixer’

The sex offender provided strategic and financial support for the architect of Donald Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ movement – despite Bannon’s claims that the late financier’s crimes are part of a liberal ‘deep state’ cover-up. Nafeez Ahmed reports
Nafeez Ahmed

‘Made In Britain’: A Crafted Future?

On Kensington High Street, a few doors from the Underground, stands Japan House, London. Part gallery, part boutique, part cultural embassy, it is a masterclass in national self-promotion.
Iain Overton