From across the political spectrum, people voiced their concern. Even Michael Gove issued a holding directive earlier this year, slowing the project’s progress. What a rare story of people power. Along with the archive documents, the other objects that are important are the garments and the dresses and gowns themselves. There’s truth and fact in those so it’s almost contextualizing her through the objects, which was the Galliera’s intent originally. They speak volumes and that’s the wonderful thing about an exhibition as opposed to a book, that people and visitors can come and make up their own mind and look at something and think “wow, it’s beautifully made. It’s so simple but actually the finish, the cut is incredible.” It’s realizing fashion history right in front of you. Everyone knows Chanel is a legendary designer. She changed fashion. But, actually how and why? To see those 100-year-old garments right in front of you and to see how timeless they are, it is quite wonderful to show that rather than just telling.

Sky Sports coverage will be led by presenter Gigi Salmon, alongside Tim Henman and Laura Robson who will offer their expert analysis and insights across the two Tours, with Jonathan Overend on the match commentary. The Sky Sports team will also be joined by additional talent and co-commentators at various events across the season. Sky has agreed new five-year partnerships with both ATP Media, the broadcast arm of the ATP, and WTA Ventures, the commercial arm of the WTA, which will see over 80 tournaments made up of 4000 matches available on Sky Sports, NOW and WOW. The show, which continues until Feb. 25, is a remounting of an exhibition that opened and closed and opened again at Paris’s Palais Galliera in the middle of the pandemic in 2021. The V&A’s version maintains its title and spirit but adds in 100 new garments sourced from its own collection plus elements of Chanel’s collaborations with British textile mills and an exploration of the designer’s connection to stage and screen.For further access, fans will also be able to follow their favourite players and gain deeper insights from both Tours via Sky Sports News, the Sky Sports app, on SkySports.com and via Sky Sports social channels.

Truly, a picture can paint a thousand words. The image is of a beaming orb displayed as a giant eye that shines out across the urban landscape. It never sleeps, and neither will you if you are near enough to its glare. A dystopian, nightmarish sight, it is quite literally an eyesore. I am talking, of course, of the recently opened Sphere in Las Vegas, its LED screens displaying 360 degrees of video and adverts for up to 24 hours a day. The developer, MSG Entertainment, had hopes of building another one in Stratford, east London, which was proposed to be as tall as Big Ben. Watch the best players and biggest moments from the ATP and WTA Tours – coming to Sky Sports in 2024 How does something that exists as an exhibition somewhere else evolve when it comes into your hands? Earlier this year I wrote about noise pollution, and how it disproportionately impacts lower-income communities (why should peace only be for the wealthy?) and dreaded what the Sphere might do to an already noise- and light-polluted part of London, in one of the city’s most economically deprived boroughs. Stratford residents dream far more of affordable housing than, say, 360 degrees of DFS adverts beaming across their borough.