Fresh from dressing Mikey Madison, Maria Grazia Chiuri draws on Virginia Woolf’s Orlando in new twist on classics

“In fashion, you can’t invent something new,” said the creative director of Dior, Maria Grazia Chiuri, backstage before her autumn/winter 2025 show. But you can reinvent it.

And so, in the Tuileries garden, Chiuri took an everyday basic – the white shirt – turned it on its head, and placed it front and centre in a monumental five-act show that featured mechanical pterodactyls, giant boulders, flashing lights and a lot of lace.

Fresh from dressing Mikey Madison, Maria Grazia Chiuri draws on Virginia Woolf’s Orlando in new twist on classics

“In fashion, you can’t invent something new,” said the creative director of Dior, Maria Grazia Chiuri, backstage before her autumn/winter 2025 show. But you can reinvent it.

And so, in the Tuileries garden, Chiuri took an everyday basic – the white shirt – turned it on its head, and placed it front and centre in a monumental five-act show that featured mechanical pterodactyls, giant boulders, flashing lights and a lot of lace.

Alice Mackey, 42, remanded in custody over death of Annabel Mackey, who was found in a pond in 2023

A 42-year-old woman has been charged with the murder of her two-year-old daughter who died after being found in a pond.

Police were sent to a report that Annabel Mackey had gone missing from her home in Kingsley near Bordon, Hampshire, on 10 September 2023.

Canada’s prime minister says the US president wants to usher in the ‘complete collapse’ of the Canadian economy

• Trump’s Congress speech – latest updates

Justin Trudeau has claimed the aim of a “dumb” trade war launched by Donald Trump is to usher in the “complete collapse” of the Canadian economy and make it easier for the United States to annex Canada.

Speaking hours after the US slapped 25% taxes on Canadian and Mexican goods – and a 10% levy on Canadian energy exports – the prime minister announced retaliatory tariffs on US exports and said his country would remain defiant against the aggression.

Canada’s prime minister says the US president wants to usher in the ‘complete collapse’ of the Canadian economy

• Trump’s Congress speech – latest updates

Justin Trudeau has claimed the aim of a “dumb” trade war launched by Donald Trump is to usher in the “complete collapse” of the Canadian economy and make it easier for the United States to annex Canada.

Speaking hours after the US slapped 25% taxes on Canadian and Mexican goods – and a 10% levy on Canadian energy exports – the prime minister announced retaliatory tariffs on US exports and said his country would remain defiant against the aggression.

Abrdn executives seemed to spend half their time explaining the pronunciation, or complaining of ‘childish’ jokes

• Vowel movement: Abrdn renames itself Aberdeen to remove ‘distractions’

C’mon Abrdn, abndn the silly name, urged this column and many others when Standard Life Aberdeen decided to shorten its name to that of the granite city, just without three-quarters of the vowels. Now – four years and one chief executive later – the nonsense has been stopped. Aberdeen it is, albeit the group still can’t manage an upper case “A”.

“One of the easiest decisions I have ever had to make,” said its new boss, Jason Windsor, undoing the handiwork of his predecessor, Stphn Brd. One doesn’t doubt it.