If Robert Nixon, 9, lived in Egypt, where his mother, Heba Nixon, grew up, he could be looking forward to new clothes for Christmas. "Everything was new - new shirts, new pants, new dresses, new ...

In our fashion-led times, you could be fooled into thinking that we’re the first to wear slogans, bright colours and thrift chic, but a new exhibition at the Whitworth Gallery shows that the ancient ...