However sedately it is nestled at number 55 on the famed London thoroughfare of Piccadilly, it is impossible to miss historic jewellers Bentley & Skinner.

From the red carpet to the fashion runway, the New York theatre producer Jordan Roth knows that all the world’s a stage.

At Balenciaga’s SS24 show, swathed in layers of black, out stepped Diane Pernet. The American fashion critic, curator and fashion’s “first” blogger, as she’s often described, since launching her platform A Shaded View on Fashion in 2005, was one of a number of well-known fashion figures to grace the platformed

Derren Gilhooley writes about Habitat, and how the homeware brand healed him following the death of his partner Simon two years ago.

Imagine walking into a boardroom meeting where Mother Nature has a seat at the decision-making table and the ability to say no if rivers are being polluted or soils stripped of their nutrients so that there is nothing for the worms to wiggle through.

Can a fragrance define an era? Coty, the 120-year-old French brand that invented modern perfumery, is looking to mark the 2020s with the launch of Infiniment Coty Paris, a 14-strong collection of genderless, luxury fragrances that thrill with personality, individuality and high-tech artistry.