Published September 29, 2025 Louise Trotter’s debut at Bottega Veneta was the standout show at Milan Fashion Week. That’s according to Simon Longland, director of buying – fashion at Harrods. See fashion showBottega Veneta – Spring-Summer2026 – Womenswear – Italie – Milan – ©Launchmetrics/spotlight He said the “debut felt strong, assured, and already deeply in…
Nick TriggleHealth correspondent BBC Three years ago, a fashion editor friend returned from Milan Fashion Week bursting with a story to tell. Most fashion editors stayed at the same hotel, she explained, and each bedroom had its own mini fridge. After checking out, en route to the airport, a stylist in her party cried out…
Published September 29, 2025 Net-a-Porter founder Natalie Massenet and her ex-partner Erik Torstensson (co-founder of Frame) have ended a messy lawsuit in which damaging allegations had been made. Photo: Pixabay They told US publication Page Six that “the parties are pleased that all of the unfortunate litigation between them has been withdrawn”. Massenet had said…
When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things — including a crucial event that happened while she was still growing inside her own mother’s womb. It depends on the quality of the egg cells that were already forming inside her fetal ovaries. The DNA-containing chromosomes in those cells must…
Physicists in Australia and Britain have reshaped quantum uncertainty to sidestep the restriction imposed by the famous Heisenberg uncertainty principle – a result that could underpin future ultra-precise sensor technology used in navigation, medicine and astronomy. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle, introduced in 1927, says that you can’t know certain pairs of properties – such as…
Published September 29, 2025 Debenhams Group has struck a key deal to drive its expansion plan with its brands having launched in the US via Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s and Nordstrom online. Karen Millen The company is taking its “most popular British fashion labels” to America, with Coast, Warehouse, Oasis, Nasty Gal (which was originally an American…
An international research team from Switzerland and Germany, led by Gaël Spicher (JURASSICA Museum, Porrentruy, Switzerland), has described a new ichthyosaur species based on fossils curated at the Urwelt-Museum Oberfranken (Bayreuth, Germany). The study was published in Museum für Naturkunde Berlin’s open-access journal Fossil Record. The new species was named Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis, in reference to…
A decade ago, scientists first detected ripples in the fabric of space-time, called gravitational waves, from the collision of two black holes. Now, thanks to improved technology and a bit of luck, a newly detected black hole merger is providing the clearest evidence yet of how black holes work — and, in the process, offering…
After the formation of the Solar System, it took a maximum of three million years for the chemical composition of the Earth’s precursor to be completed. This is shown by a new study by the Institute of Geological Sciences at the University of Bern. At this time, however, there were hardly any elements necessary for…
Georgina RannardClimate and science correspondent Gwyndaf Hughes/BBC Nadine Mitschunas is the UK’s first rice grower Gwyndaf HughesClimate and science videographer In an ordinary field in a quiet part of east England, a unique experiment is taking root. “When I tell people what I’m doing here, they think I’m joking,” says Nadine Mitschunas, the UK’s first…
