Royal Ascot and Wimbledon: Dressing up for Britain’s summer season of sport

Fresh from a trip to Cannes, to take in the brands, celebrities and agencies this week at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, James Emmett provides David Cushnan with a postcard of who was there and why.

Elsewhere, what does Royal Ascot’s formal dresscode say about the event? And is Ascot’s grandstand facility one of the most underrated in all of sport? 

Plus as the area around the Leaders studio in Wimbledon gets decked out in its tennis finery, ahead of this year’s Championships, there’s the latest on the player protests around the Grand Slams, and snap reaction to the renewal of the BBC’s contract to broadcast the tournament in the UK until at least 2033.