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Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the FashionmyFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox.Wedding-guest style was once synonymous with the sort of drab…

Hilary Farey is many things: a retired GP, a mother of three, a grandma, a practising Roman Catholic. Now another possible descriptor looms: convict.The 64-year-old, who lives in…

I have plenty to say on the subject of “the big light” in a room. To my mind, single-source overhead illumination is blinding, migraine-making and anxiety-inducing. It’s also…

In early February I was coming back from a lovely sunny break in Marrakech and had to attend a dinner, immediately before the increasingly successful Wine Paris trade fair, to…

I gave up alcohol for Lent and lasted less than two weeks. But my intentions were good. It was the first time I had intended to do Lent in a serious way — call it a Christian way,…

It is Easter week, Jubilee year, and all-out Caravaggio season in Rome. More than half of the artist’s total surviving works are currently and exceptionally in the city that formed…

The first time I saw Rakhi Singh, she was barefoot, playing the violin at the Purcell Room on London’s Southbank. Singh was leading Manchester Collective, the flexible group of…

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Life & ArtsmyFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox.During the past couple of weeks I think I’ve paid more…

Next week, London’s National Theatre will stage Here We Are, the final work by the late Stephen Sondheim, composer of musicals such as Sweeney Todd, Company and Sunday in the Park…

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the StylemyFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox.Ding dong. It’s time for the unveiling of our fourth wedding special. As …