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1. Ray Bradbury's The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit

   5/5Journalist John Walsh recalls a pristine white suit in a short story by Ray Bradbury.
2. F Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night

   4/5Justine Picardie, editor of Harper's Bazaar, celebrates Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night.
3. Federico Fellini's 8 1/2

   3/5Stephen Bayley celebrates some timeless eyewear, carried off brilliantly in a famous film.
4. Francoise Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse

   2/5Rachel Cooke on a famous pair of 'peddle pushers' in the novel Bonjour Tristesse.
5. James Whistler's Symphony in White, No 1

   1/5Art historian James Fox describes an intriguing 1860s painting of a girl in a white dress.