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Juliette Binoche (right, as Coco Chanel), Glenn Close, John Malkovich, and Ben Mendelsohn (left), a Netflix original, explores how designer Christian Dior and contemporaries such as Cristóbal Balenciaga and Pierre Balmain all contributed to the development of modern fashion. Coco Chanel (inset) - lauded for her designs, but also feared for her conduct during the war, which has cast a pall over her image. 'The details of what defined them in their personal lives, the powers that influenced them, and the specific choices they made -- which is what led to a cultural revolution that brought hope and life to a world destroyed by the Second World War,' says Todd A Kessler, the show's producer.'

SARAH VINE: Molly Russell, a schoolgirl, would have turned 19 if she hadn't taken her own life in 2017. I'm currently in the same situation as my own daughter, whether at college or in her first career, or perhaps going back to university after a year of travelling or working abroad. Excited and trepid in equal measure, first serious relationship, first time away from home. Traipsing around Ikea's duvet covers and fake pot plants, living off beans on toast, drinking too much at the student bingo night, and getting a stupid tattoo. Instead, she will remain a 14-year-old girl in school uniform, a girl with an unsure smile and whose life was cut tragically short. For those she may have been, and also for her family, she breaks the heart. But there is also rage. Rage and agony over the injustice of a world where children like Molly - children of innocent young souls - are exposed to things far beyond their years and emotional maturity.

At the Giambattista Valli show, Princess Alexandra of Hanover (left) and Princess Sirivannavari Nariratana Rajakanya of Thailand (right) were both photographed. Princess Alexandra, who has been attending Paris Fashion Week since she was 18, wore a leopard print structured dress with buttoned down the front. Princess Sirivannavari, on the other hand, wowed in a baby pink Thai dress.