Vandalised paintings and newly found planets – take the Thursday quiz | Life and style – www.theguardian.com

Vandalised paintings and newly found planets – take the Thursday quiz | Life and style

Shared from www.theguardian.com Once again the task that lies before you is 15 vaguely topical and general knowledge questions, littered with repetitive in-jokes that long since stopped being entertaining. You will meet Ron from Sparks. […]

Audrey Hepburn’s 20 greatest films – ranked! | Audrey Hepburn – www.theguardian.com

A dour western: Audrey Hepburn and John Saxon in The Unforgiven.

Shared from www.theguardian.com 20. Green Mansions (1959) This exotic MGM romance directed by Hepburn’s then husband, Mel Ferrer, was in fact her first big flop. Anthony Perkins plays a Venezuelan refugee whose life is saved […]

New York brand Collina Strada offers a club-ready aesthetic | Fashion – www.theguardian.com

Red/coral coloured velvet sleeveless dress

Shared from www.theguardian.com The New York brand Collina Strada takes sustainability seriously – its website describes it as “a platform for social issues and awareness” rather than a fashion brand – but it’s loved by […]

Velvet gloves to iron fists: how complicit are the wives of dictators? | Life and style – www.theguardian.com

Imelda Marcos talks to the press at the Manila international airport on 10 December 1997.

Shared from www.theguardian.com “These prosecutors are rummaging in my closets, hoping to find skeletons. But all they will find are my beautiful clothes.” So says the fictional Marija Popa, adapting an infamous phrase from Imelda […]

Cheating the audience: what went wrong with Inventing Anna? | US television – www.theguardian.com

Julia Garner, left, and Anna Chlumsky in Inventing Anna.

Shared from www.theguardian.com There’s a recurring impulse throughout Inventing Anna, the nine-part Netflix limited series on the so-called “Soho Grifter”, to apply the scam logic of Anna Delvey – a broke twentysomething Russian émigré who […]