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‘I call them erotic landscapes’: fashion photographer Tim Walker on his powerful tapestry of queer Britain

He has shot everyone from Madonna to Rihanna, Kate Moss and Frank Ocean. Now Walker has turned his lens on the activists, artists, writers, models and everyday heroes of gay life Six years ago, Tim Walker was walking in the Highbury Fields area of London when he came across a plaque on the side of a building. In 1970, at these now-converted public toilets, Louis Eakes, chairman of the Young Liberals, was arrested for importuning following a “pretty police” entrapment in which male officers posed as would-be sex partners. It was here, the plaque told the photographer, that the first ever gay ri

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"Goodbye my Russia": a historian looking for his father and a beloved country

Nicolas Werth, a specialist in the history of the USSR, gives himself in a personal book entitled "Goodbye my Russia". The president of the association Mémorial France confronts his path, that of a historian who was hit by the Russian invasion in Ukraine, and that of his father, also a historian, who committed suicide the day after the crash in the spring of Prague.

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A Museum of Information and Press is to be established in Paris in 2029

The Musée de l'info et de la presse (Musip) is to open its doors in Paris by 2029, announced Monday morning its founder-president, Antoine Mariotti, also a journalist in France 24. Supported by Unesco, numerous media – including Radio France, Le Figaro, AFP, Charlie Hebdo and regional press groups – and Reporters Without Borders (RSF), the project aims to create around 20 million euros.

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Sex, drugs and floral fabrics: Celia Birtwell relives her wild times – and wilder outfits – with Ossie Clark

They dressed – and partied with – the innermost in-crowd. As a swirling new show celebrates their fashion creations, Birtwell recalls her happy days with Clark and her sorrow at the loss of David Hockney In the mythical age of bohemia, the psychedelic decade between Mary Quant’s cheerful miniskirts and the first snarls of punk, Celia Birtwell and Ossie Clark were London’s most fashionable couple. Birtwell created the fabrics: daydreamy, botanical doodles that captured the idealism and looseness of the times in wisps of chiffon. Clark magicked these into sensual bias-cut dresses with a freewhee

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Corruption trial: four years in prison and five years ineligible for Rachida Dati

The National Financial Prosecutor's Office demanded on Monday against Rachida Dati four years in prison, two years of which were closed with electronic bracelet and five years of ineligibility and prohibition of the civil service with provisional execution. He also demanded four years in prison against the former boss of Renault-Nissan Carlos Ghosn, on the run in Lebanon, with the continued arrest warrant.

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Taylor Swift becomes most-awarded artist in MTV VMA history with 31 wins

Taylor Swift became the most-awarded artist in MTV Video Music Awards history on Sunday, receiving the inaugural Artist Director Honors and moving past Beyoncé with her 31 awards. Swift, who said she had written and directed 18 music videos, also premiered her self-directed video for “Patient Zero”, starring Colin Farrell and Dakota Johnson.

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The Best Pop Culture Halloween Costumes for 2026: From Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Shrubs to Taylor Swift’s Knicks Shirt

Expect to see plenty of hockey jerseys, hospital scrubs and suspiciously elaborate shrubbery on the streets this Halloween. Some revelers will be channeling Ilya and Shane from “Heated Rivalry,” others will be pulling overnight shifts as the doctors of “The Pitt” — and the most committed friend groups may skip dressing as Bad Bunny altogether […]

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A book written with AI? What we know about suspicions against the writer Thélyson Orélien

Canadian author of Haitian origin Thélyson Orélien is accused of using AI massively for his book "It Was That or Die", in the run for the Goncourt Prize. The accusations are based on results from Pangram, a text detector generated by IA: this software, considered reliable by several researchers, detected that the vast majority of the book would have been written with AI.

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From 50p gold hot pants to Paul Smith suits: how Kylie Minogue became one of pop’s ultimate chameleons

The star’s rise from Ramsay Street to global superstar is the subject of a new book. It’s a journey that has cleverly harnessed the power of fashion to transform, subvert – and shock On 20 December 1989, Kylie Minogue first harnessed the power of fashion. Attending the Australian premiere of her film The Delinquents, she wore a custom sequined noughts-and-crosses minidress by Australian designers Morrissey Edmiston and a cropped blond wig. She also arrived with a new accessory: a rock star boyfriend in the shape of Michael Hutchence from INXS. Before then, there’d been her Neighbours character

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"Just see" by Adèle Haenel: writing to rebuild

She left the cinema to regain her freedom. Today, Adèle Haenel returns with "See just", her first book, a hybrid text in which she explores the gender-based and sexual violence she has suffered, but also the mechanisms of silence, denial and reconstruction. From her childhood to her acting years, from her significant roles to her commitment to violence against women, she questions what has long been far from herself. A "investigation of her own disappearance", as she describes.

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Business Culture Podcaster Sammi Cohen Is Launching Social Commerce Network (SCN), a Livestreamed News Show Inspired by TBPN and Aimed at Being a Next-Gen CNBC

Sammi Cohen has hundreds of thousands of followers who tune in to her podcast focused on the intersection of business, tech and culture — and she thinks they’re hungry for a live dose of her brand of news and analysis. Next month, Cohen is launching Social Commerce Network (SCN), a digital-first business news network livestreamed […]

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In the turmoil, Ed Sheeran denounces the situation in Gaza and acknowledges "mistakes"

Ed Sheeran apologized on Saturday for the polemic that erupted this week when rapper Macklemore was removed from the tour of the British singer for which he had to secure the first parts due to pro-Palestinian comments. "What is happening in Gaza is catastrophic, unjustifiable and disproportionate," said Ed Sheeran at the opening of his first concert in Philadelphia.

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‘I love the boldness of modernism’: New York fashion week goes highbrow

Georgia O’Keeffe inspires the latest Calvin Klein while Michael Kors feels indebted to Alexander Calder Calvin Klein has taken a highbrow turn in the two years since Veronica Leoni took charge. The Italian designer, a philosophy graduate who was schooled in the chic design studios of Jil Sander and Celine, has shifted away from jeans, boxer shorts and logos, stripping the brand to its minimalist bones: slip dresses and simple coats, slim skirts and crisp T-shirts. Leoni called this the “discipline of removal”. Her muse this season was Georgia O’Keeffe, an artist who the brand’s namesake founde

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