Little pig, little pig, let me come in to buy a T-shirt
By Jules Quartly
The universal uniform is a T-shirt and jeans. Add baseball cap and sneakers, everyone’s wearing the same, from Hollywood to the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda.

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A decade ago the fashion industry welcomed Hollywood stars into their business with open arms, but now, many young designers feel they are being squeezed
By Eric Wilson
On Monday night, the 33-year-old designer Phillip Lim, who worked quietly behind the scenes in other designers’ studios for a decade before putting his name on a label that is now sold at Neiman Marcus, won the fashion industry’s highest award for emerging talent. Yet his obvious pleasure at being recognized by the Council of Fashion Designers of America at its annual ceremony must have been tempered by the fact that he was handed his statuette by two women who also call themselves young designers — Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.

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If you think there’s something ditsy about Julie Delpy, prepare for a sock in the mouth. She talks tough about acting, men, and why her new script features so much castration
By Ryan Gilbey
Julie Delpy smokes and smokes. She smokes so much she should consider wearing ashtrays as trinkets. We are in a faux-rustic restaurant in Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz, where she is promoting the sharp and funny 2 Days in Paris, a romcom with bite, which she wrote, directed, produced, edited, scored, starred in and presumably smoked all the way through making. At first I think the only time she’s not smoking is when she’s talking. But she has so much to say — she can rattle off an entire exhaustive answer before you’ve finished asking your initial question — that eventually the division between speaking and inhaling vanishes, and the words are tumbling from her mouth wreathed in smoke. It doesn’t sound very attractive, but remember this is Julie Delpy. She could be up to her elbows in offal, belching the Marseillaise, but she’d still have admirers establishing cults in her name. And chances are she’d still loathe that kind of attention.

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The works on view at the national pavilions at the Venice Biennale pose many questions but provide few answers: The theme of the 52nd Venice Biennale is Think With the Senses — Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense
By Carol Vogel
This picture-postcard city of shimmering lagoons is plastered with red-and-green posters that read Think With the Senses — Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense, the theme of the 52nd Venice Biennale. Since Wednesday, collectors and curators, artists and dealers have flocked here to look at and to gauge the state of new art.

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His £50 million skull is not the only gem in Damien Hirst's shows, but Jeff Koons, an early influence, is less than sparkling these days
By Laura Cumming
There are tickets, there are bouncers, there are cordons and bag checks and then you are in lock-down with the famous skull for five minutes. The experience is somewhere between nightclub, Bond Street jeweler and security vault: anthropologically, nothing like an art exhibit.

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