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Girls (and bags) on film
As luxury brands eagerly take part in the promotional hype surrounding the ‘Sex and the City’ movie, Vanessa Friedman asks if big-screen product placement can still sell heels and handbags during a downturn
Up close and personal
Filmmakers have discovered a new ‘it’ genre: the fashion documentary and biopic
‘Head to Brooklyn’
Nicholas Lander can’t get enough of the borough’s restaurant-led renaissance
Rules of abstraction
Two rival critics argue over Pollock and De Kooning
The mother of her dreams
Doris Lessing remembers – and reinvents – her parents
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