Charli XCX, Sabrina Carpenter, and Chappell Roan lead Primavera Sound 2025's history-making line-up, but why is creating a gender balanced line-up still a challenge for so many festivals?

The designer Bob Mackie strolled through a gallery at the Soho Grand Hotel one recent afternoon while a team installed a show featuring his fashion sketches of divas like Cher, Madonna and Tina Turner ...