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More than 3,500 people from 34 countries registered for the chance to bid on the superstar Elton John’s rocket-shaped cocktail shakers, ornate jumpsuits, and black-and-white fashion photography at Christie’s “Goodbye Peachtree Road” auction this week. Two sales over three days featuring the celebrated musician’s belongings rocketed to $14.4 million, with auction-house fees, outperforming the high estimate of $11.3 million.Bidders vied for silver leather platform boots the singer wore throughout the 1970s (they sold for $94,000, more than nine times the high estimate) and an 18-karat gold Rolex watch with a leopard-print dial (it fetched $176,400, about three times the high estimate).Over two and a half weeks, John and his husband, David Furnish, will offload around 900 items they collec...

When Steven Meisel shot the supermodel Linda Evangelista for the September 2022 issue of British Vogue, she hid many of her features beneath a series of hats and scarves. The year before, she had filed a lawsuit after a cosmetic procedure left her “disfigured,” she said, and reluctant to venture outdoors.Ms. Evangelista, 58, seems far less shy these days. She has since been on other Vogue covers and in a television series, and has talked openly about being treated for breast cancer twice. This month, she flaunted her face, frame and a mastectomy scar on the cover of Zeit Magazin, a sister publication of the German weekly Die Zeit, which has an English edition.In the magazine, Ms. Evangelista appears in photos by Cass Bird looking not much older than she did in the ’90s, when she bragged...

The unlikely star of the Apple TV second world war drama series Masters of the Air, the last episode of which is released in the UK on Friday, is not the flight scenes or the solid performances from Callum Turner and Austin Butler, but the jackets. Call it the Masters of the Air effect, but aviator jackets are having a moment.According to the high street retailer John Lewis, searches for the garment have increased by 68% since this time last year. They are soaring at the luxury end, too, with Matches Fashion reporting that sales have more than tripled in the same period. “The sexy older brother of a shearling coat, the aviator jacket is a wardrobe staple that stands the test of time,” says Damien Paul, the head of menswear at Matches.The original aviators – then known as B-3 bomber jack...

After a year-long engagement, Indian billionaire businessman Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani’s son Anant Ambani is set to tie the knot with Radhika Merchant, daughter of industrialist Viren Merchant, as reported by Indian media outlets. Scheduled for July 12 in Mumbai, the prelude to the impending wedding unfolds with a three-day celebration in Jamnagar from March 1 to 3. Intensifying the hype, the guest list is accompanied by a meticulously curated nine-page event dossier and wardrobe guide making rounds on the internet. This comprehensive package, inclusive of a detailed visual mood board, has been distributed to invitees and offers a preview of the elaborate celebration awaiting guests in Jamnagar. Poised to be a glamourous affair, various international dignitaries including Bill Gates, Mar...