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When real life meets TV: it's the not-quite-reality show

In ancient times it came in the form of a hagiography with some poor scribe commanded to write a glowing account of the powerful or famous in which any inconvenient blemishes would be smoothed over, presenting the subject in the most flattering light.

Cutest couple ... Shanina Shaik and DJ Ruckus walk the runway during the David Jones Spring Summer 2017 collections launch.

PS DAVID JONES

The contrast between the old David Jones and the new South African-owned one could not have been more clear than when guests filed passed the baby grand piano tinkling away on the ground floor of the flagship Elizabeth Street store en route to Wednesday night's opulent fashion extravaganza.

Charles Lloyd Jones farewells his mother Lady Lloyd Jones at Kingsford Smith Airport as she prepares to go to Paris to ...

PS SPOTLIGHT

We can only imagine what the late doyenne of Sydney society Lady Lloyd Jones would make of today's South African owners and their bags of "spiralised" zucchini in the gleaming new David Jones Food Hall unveiled at her old family store in Bondi Junction on Wednesday night.

Old friends: James Packer in 2005 aboard Arctic P with Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes (right) and Tommy Davis (shirtless, ...

James Packer parts ways with Scientologist

Nearly a decade since PS first revealed James Packer had walked away from the Church of Scientology, the billionaire has expunged the last Scientologist from his inner circle.

Barber Angelo Perri keeps busy at Paris Style Hairdresser, which looks like a perfectly preserved time capsule from the ...

Barber brothers preserve piece of past

"Scissors and comb... never go out of fashion," says Calabrian-born Angelo, 65, neatly turned out in his fitted barber's smock and tie as he works his mastery on yet another client, his 10th for the day and it's yet to reach noon. Indeed, it has been the same routine for the past 50 years, having started at the salon as an apprentice in 1967.

Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark is heading Down Under to indulge his love fo sailing and compete in the Race Week regatta.

Prince Frederik to take helm of Wild Oats

It seems only fitting that the King of Hamilton Island would allow the future King of Denmark to use one of his thoroughbred racing yachts at next month's Race Week regatta.

James Fairfax was a man of refined taste who eschewed the limelight, preferring to spend his time with artists and ...

Fairfax's stunning Retford Park to welcome public

If ever there was a true Gentleman's Estate, it would have to be the magnificent, sprawling home of the late James Fairfax, who departed this mortal coil in January but left one of the most extraordinary gifts to the people of Australia one could imagine: Bowral's gob-smackingly beautiful Retford Park.

Nell Schofield chose a cocktail commando outfit for one of the Cointreau Balls, which was Sydney's grandest party during ...

When celebrities had a ball

In the years before we had to endure Instagram selfies from the Amalfi Coast, mid-winter was one of the hottest times on the Sydney social calendar.

Among Queen Elizabeth II's gifts from Australia is an emu egg carving presented to her by the students and staff at ...

Queen wears Australia bling for PM's visit

While Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull swallowed his republican pride to meet Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace this week, it would be doubtful he could have missed the fabulous sparkling brooch Her Maj wore to mark the occasion: a diamond encrusted jewel in the form of a spray of wattle.