Cardiff chic: Kiti is big on Scandi and LA brands like Annine Bing, Ganni and Stine Goya and has the inside line on new discoveries.Cardiff chic: Kiti is big on Scandi and LA brands like Annine Bing, Ganni and Stine Goya and has the inside line on new discoveries.The ObserverFashionFrom upcycled floral dresses to cutting-edge style, these small independent businesses have something for everyone 1. Kiti, CardiffA proudly Welsh, colourful confection of fashion treasures for women of every age.

Film blogFilmThe (censored) story of Serge GainsbourgAnd so, it seems that the string of biopics suffering from "selective memory" is set to continue. As a slightly obsessive Serge Gainsbourg fan (but then, is there any other kind?) I was initially very excited when I found out about the forthcoming film of his life, Serge Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life, to be released next year. But after some research, I discovered that this may well be a film to file away with the disappointing recent stories of three other hero(in)es of mine: Dylan, Cash and Piaf.

Ask Molly RingwaldSmoking‘It’s a powerful urge we parents have, to save our own kids from suffering the same things we did’My parents are smokers. They smoked when I was a child, in the car, in the house and everywhere in between. I was used to having conversations with them through clouds of smoke, until I hit adulthood, at which point smoking, and its adverse health effects, began to disgust and worry me. Now I have children of my own and live in a different country.

Julie Manet and Her Greyhound Laerte, 1893, painted by her mother, Berthe Morisot. © The Bridgeman Art LibraryJulie Manet and Her Greyhound Laerte, 1893, painted by her mother, Berthe Morisot. © The Bridgeman Art LibraryThe ObserverPaintingReviewDulwich Picture Gallery, London Brushstrokes shiver, tremble and fly in this rare UK show of the French artist’s elusive, intimate work – albeit one shared with numerous men “What a shame they are not men,” Édouard Manet wrote of Berthe and Edma Morisot, upon meeting the gifted young artists in 1868.

Christina Crawford, aged 7, with her mother, Joan … ‘We don’t recognise the long-term psychological damage that is inflicted on people who are abused.’ Photograph: Bettmann/Bettmann ArchiveChristina Crawford, aged 7, with her mother, Joan … ‘We don’t recognise the long-term psychological damage that is inflicted on people who are abused.’ Photograph: Bettmann/Bettmann ArchiveChild protectionHer memoir of life with her abusive adoptive mother, the Hollywood superstar Joan Crawford, was perhaps the first ever to document child abuse from the point of view of the child.