Engraving with rows of heads in hats of different eras, labelled with kings' names and years from Charles VII to 1899.

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Hat styles from Charles VII to 1899 on an illustrated chart

Learning our hat styles. If only to criticise costume films with some authority

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In "Attack of the Clones", the scenes with Padmé Amidala, Queen of the planet Naboo, and Anakin Skywalker in the city of Theed were filmed in the semicircular gallery of the early twentieth-century Neo-Moorish ensemble of the Plaza de España in Seville

Film still: a man with a blue bald head and black gloves sits in a chair at a desk with telephones, a candelabrum with candles beside him.

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New Fantômas series to be based more closely on novels by Souvestre and Allain

Fantômas is to return to the screen as the hero of a new series. The new holders of the rights to adapt the novels about the first European superhero assure us that the image of the legendary hooded villain will now be far closer to the original texts of Pierre

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Don't tell me I'm the only one who finds reading Russian manuscripts of the early seventeenth century reminiscent of the Wonnie meme universe

Don't tell me I'm the only one who finds reading Russian manuscripts of the early seventeenth century reminiscent of the Wonnie meme universe. And don't you dare even hint that you don't read such things!

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Exhibition of Elsa Schiaparelli's work on show at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris

In Paris, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs is showing an exhibition devoted to Elsa Schiaparelli. The display brings together hundreds of her works. The dresses and accessories, executed with the most exquisite workmanship, leave no doubt as to Elsa's significance for world fashion, her undeniable relevance and her

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Sir Ian McKellen has said that he knows his life is drawing to a close, and is still waiting for a call from the showrunners offering him Gandalf in the series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

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Tatler publishes photographs of Princess Diana from her last summer holiday aboard the 64-metre yacht Jonikal, built at the Italian yard Codecasa in 1990 and owned by the Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed

Tatler has published photographs of Princess Diana from her last summer holiday aboard the 64-metre yacht Jonikal, built at the Italian yard Codecasa in 1990 and owned by the Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed. On board this luxurious vessel Diana was spotted in the Mediterranean in 1997 with the

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When You Feel Like a Happy Walrus

Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, 1962

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Maya Plisetskaya's Balenciaga

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The beloved Alla Borisovna and Yevgeny Boldin, her husband from 1985 to 1993, in a photograph by Sergei Borisov

The beloved Alla Borisovna and Yevgeny Boldin, her husband from 1985 to 1993, in a photograph by Sergei Borisov. The photograph is shown at Borisov's exhibition at the Multimedia Art Museum

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Coco Chanel's apartment keeps its interiors from the day she died and is closed to the public

Today Coco Chanel's apartment is closed to visitors, save for the most important guests of the House. Its furnishings have remained unchanged since the day Coco died. There is a video showing the interiors of the famous apartment

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Coco Chanel's apartment at 31 rue Cambon, where she received guests but never slept

Coco Chanel in her apartment at 31 Rue Cambon, in an eighteenth-century building, in the 1950s and 1960s. Coco's apartment was on the second floor of the building that became the residence of her brand. The shows were held on the ground floor, the showroom lay above,