This chart shows whether Thomas Couture’s total sales are going up, and if so, whether this is because more artworks by the artist have been offered and sold or because more high-value artworks have ...

Paris — PERHAPS the extreme opulence in Paris last week speaks to a world that now has 8.7 million millionaires, for whom a $100,000 made-to-order couture gown is a nice little trifle.

Gurugram: Scenes from the Sistine Chapel, the famous statue of Laocoön and His Sons wrestling giant snakes, Thomas Couture’s The Romans in their Decadence painting — Rome has come to Gurugram ...

As Paris Couture Week comes to an end ... the house is once again a dazzling destination for decadence, as it once was when helmed by the late Karl Lagerfeld. Perhaps going back to a time when glamour ...

His painstaking depiction of Roman luxury and decadence still resonates, however, and we could learn how to contextualize and properly appreciate the decadence of our own times by looking at his ...

Certainly there is a whiff of the Gilded Age about it all, with clients lining the front rows of the haute couture shows last week in five-figure evening gowns as the war in Ukraine and the cost ...