Novelist Tracy Chevalier considers the fate of some sparkling stones in Guy de Maupassant's famous story The Necklace. Show more

Novelist Justin Cartwright thinks about corporate America and how it is vividly caught in Sloan Wilson's novel The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit. Show more

Art critic Laura Cumming considers the famous black dress worn by 'Madame X' in the 1880s, after she posed for the artist John Singer Sargent. Show more

Critic Peter Bradshaw considers the case of the little red coat, worn with poignancy in England and with menace in the alleyways of Venice in the classic film Don't Look Now. Show more

Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman recalls the words of Leonard Cohen's song Suzanne, and how they dressed a generation of young women. Show more