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‘If you see one movie this year’: Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey set to storm the box office

The summer’s most anticipated film will raise epic questions about culture wars, classics and the nature of film-making

The Guardian - UK

Fashion Becomes Art: a deliciously decadent journey through the surrealist world of Elsa Schiaparelli

“Nobody has been able to pronounce my name properly … but everybody knows what it means,” Elsa Schiaparelli once said, with typical self-assuredness.

The Conversation

New V&A exhibition explores how Elsa Schiaparelli dressed ‘the most masculine city’ in Britain

From Ariana Grande’s Oscars gowns to surrealist collaborations with Salvador Dalí, this new exhibition traces how Schiaparelli redefined fashion.

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Artist, impresario, couturier: V&A to stage Schiaparelli retrospective

Exhibition at Victoria and Albert Museum celebrates Italian designer’s moment-making approach to fashion

The Guardian - UK

Eight of the most beautiful places on the French Riviera to enjoy the backdrop to White Lotus season 4

From golden beaches to storybook villages and handsome harbors, we’ve pinpointed some of the French Riviera’s standout destinations

The Independent UK

‘Lunch could last all day – and night’: inside Coco Chanel’s sun-kissed sanctum for art’s superstars

The French fashion designer’s lavish Mediterranean villa was frequented by everyone from Dalí to Garbo to Stravinsky to Churchill. It has now been lovingly restored – with a thrillingly bolstered library

The Guardian - UK

Inside cult jewellery designer Harriet Vine's shoestring transformation of tired flats into a colourful home

How jewellery designer Harriet Vine turned her Hackney disaster into a fully functioning riot of colour

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8 Art Deco-Inspired Bathrooms — And the Lessons to Learn From Them to Make This Style Work for Now

There are so many easy ways to bring Art Deco styles into a bathroom design, and make your space into a creative jewel box you'll love to spend time in

Livingetc

“Far ahead of the 80s art-rock curve… forward-looking, new wave electronic music with trace elements of prog and glam”: Bill Nelson’s Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam Deluxe Box Set

Ex-Be Bop Deluxe leader’s 1981 solo release is greatly expanded to impressive effect

Louder

80s a-go-go, hanging with Calder and a Scots stitch-up – the week in art

Plus: a magical Picasso print, a farewell to Frank Auerbach and polyamorous bohemian Dora Carrington gets her own show – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

Deborah Levy: ‘A writer’s career is choppy – I was 50 when I found success’

Her ‘living autobiographies’ and novels have earned her legions of fans, but that success was hard won. Deborah Levy talks about stamina, boldness, and finding delight in the details

The Guardian - UK

Portrait of a modernist maverick: last chance to see the Jean Cocteau retrospective in Venice

‘Cocteau: The Juggler’s Revenge’, celebrating the French artist's defiance of artistic labels, is in its final week at Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice

Wallpaper

Design, culture and jewellery: Cartier in Singapore

Cartier is celebrating 100 years of Trinity with a series of pop-ups around the world

Wallpaper

Katia and Marielle Labèque review – Glass’s Cocteau trilogy perfumes the air, literally

Piano arrangements of Philip Glass’s music for his operas based on the French director’s films come complete with bespoke scents

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Evoking genius to defend ‘dark stars’ like Gérard Depardieu looks very French – and it is

Accusations of rape against the actor have divided the nation, with some referring to him as the ‘last monstre sacré’

The Guardian - UK

Kenneth Anger obituary

Influential avant-garde film-maker and author of the salacious book Hollywood Babylon

Evening Standard

The intimate London exhibition paying homage to a legendary lesbian nightclub

Zara Toppin’s latest work takes inspiration from 1930s Paris nightclub, Le Monocle

Salon

Creating Poker Face's retro-chic fits

Trayce Gigi Field told Salon about the "fashionable-ish" Charlie Cale, from the boots and vests to that horse head

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Backed by the Butter Board – then a Cannes premiere: rediscovering the films of Wendy Toye

A dancer, choreographer and director who made her stage debut aged three, Toye was a creative powerhouse who left an estimable legacy as a film director. Now two of her films are being released for a new audience

The Guardian - UK

Jean-Luc Godard obituary

New Wave film-maker who changed the course of cinema with À Bout de Souffle

The Independent UK

The Surreal deal: Elsa Schiaparelli was the mother of strange fashion

The Italian designer’s so-called ‘little jokes’ turned out to have a massive influence on the world of fashion. In the wake of a new exhibition in Paris, Jessica Testa examines her life and work

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: watch out dinosaurs, that big asteroid is coming – and so is David Attenborough

The most soothing voice on the box tells an apocalyptic tale in Dinosaurs: The Final Day. Plus: a killer on the loose in Grantchester. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

The Human Voice review – Ruth Wilson fails to connect in Jean Cocteau’s tale of despair

Ivo van Hove’s production divests this drama of emotional power and momentum, keeping us at arm’s length

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