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Beauty

The Five Paris Pharmacies Worth Knowing

Paris has no shortage of pharmacies. What changes is the stock, the pricing and the quality of the advice. Citypharma is the obvious name, but it is not always the right choice. These are the five to keep. 1. Citypharma 26 Rue du Four, 6th Arrondissement Best for: Price Citypharma remains the place for a serious restock. La Roche-Posay, Avène, Bioderma and Nuxe are here in depth, usually at prices that make sense when buying several products at once. It gets busy, so arrive knowing what yo

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Villa at Tierras above Mononaftis, on Crete’s north coast

Travel

The Hotel Is Down the Hill

The Orfanake family has spent 35 years building hotels in Crete. At Tierras, much of the hotel has been moved somewhere else. Roē, the smallest of the five villas at Tierras, has a suspended infinity pool, 115 square metres of terrace, a barbecue, private parking and a washing machine. Tierras sits above Mononaftis on Crete’s north coast, around 20 minutes from Heraklion airport. Each villa has its own pool and kitchen, and housekeeping comes between nine and two. A chef can cook in the house,

Palacio de los Ángeles hotel in Haro, Rioja, with interiors by Trenchs Studio

Travel

Haro, Paris, London.

For more than a century, Rioja’s wine capital has had an improbable habit of finding itself connected to the wider world. A new hotel suggests the visitors may finally be staying longer. Haro has long had a grand little saying about itself: “Haro, París y Londres.” The town links it to its early embrace of electricity, a story that has not suffered from repetition. In 1890 Haro became one of the first Spanish towns to introduce electric public lighting, a novelty visible to passengers arriving

Fashion

The Missing Middle of Fashion

Aaron Esh’s first AllSaints collection arrives today. The more interesting question is whether a brand like AllSaints can restore something fashion has spent years hollowing out. The old AllSaints shop did a lot before you reached the clothes. The light was low. Singer sewing machines filled the windows. Leather, iron and grey timber made a branch in a shopping centre feel faintly illicit. It was retail theatre, but it also established something that has become increasingly rare: you knew whose

Culture

The Advantage of Being Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton understood something that increasingly feels difficult to explain: you can take your life seriously without taking yourself particularly seriously. The hair was huge. The nails were impractical. The clothes were knowingly excessive. She spent decades making jokes about all of it, leaving very little for anybody hoping to expose her. She had usually got there first. Algorithms classify our taste. Apps quantify our bodies. Artificial intelligence can analyse a message received at 11