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Christian Dior shows there's life after Galliano – and before Jacobs

Saturday, 1 October 2011

Despite the frenetic rumours surrounding the identity of the next creative director at Christian Dior, which dismissed the British designer John Galliano in February after he was arrested for anti-Semitism, the French fashion house demonstrated a cool head as it presented its ready-to-wear collections in Paris yesterday.

Video: Lady Gaga at Paris Fashion Week

Friday, 30 September 2011

Lady Gaga has made a 'special' appearance at Paris Fashion Week, as she makes an entrance via video at the Thierry Mugler show.

It's standing room only at the Balenciaga show...

Friday, 30 September 2011

Harriet Walker: Bench malfunction forces fashion A-listers to their feet in Paris.

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Paris goes Gaga as international crowd gears up for new collections

Tuesday, 27 September 2011

At Thierry Mugler tomorrow night, creative director Nicola Formichetti will be showing a short film courtesy of superstar photographer duo Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, with his friend and collaborator Lady Gaga in the star role and releasing a new soundtrack.

Dolce & Gabbana bring the Mambo back to Milan

Monday, 26 September 2011

The highlight of Milan Fashion Week's fifth day was without doubt Dolce & Gabbana's intensely Italian spring/summer 2012 show.

The chill factor – what makes a brand so cool?

Sunday, 25 September 2011

Jonathan Owen and Peter York: The names are instantly recognisable and worth a mint.

Bye-bye, bling: Italy prefers sophistication

Sunday, 25 September 2011

Harriet Walker finds Milan awash with exotic hues and classic cuts.

Fashion designers offer 'retail theatre' to combat economic gloom

Sunday, 25 September 2011

Even before the curtain fell on London Fashion Week's procession of improbable or impractical offerings, the couture houses were turning the spotlight from fashionistas and on to real customers.

Moschino swirls into the arena to the sound of the Toreador's Song

Saturday, 24 September 2011

Toreadors, the Navajo, Mariachi bands and Frida Kahlo were all on the menu in Milan yesterday – and, amazingly, they were all packed into one vibrant show.

D&G goes out with a fresh and fruity bling-filled bang

Friday, 23 September 2011

Harriet Walker: Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana made the surprise announcement yesterday that they would be closing their D&G line – just as an audience in Milan applauded the finale of the label's latest – and now last – show.

Hugo Boss 'sorry' for using slave labour during WW2

Friday, 23 September 2011

The German fashion label Hugo Boss has apologised for using forced labourers during the Second World War, many of whom had been abducted.

Gucci celebrates 90 years with nod to Blade Runner

Thursday, 22 September 2011

Harriet Walker: Milan Fashion Week opened yesterday with a show of strength and sparkle from an international mega-brand steeped in history.

Miner chic inspires London menswear

Thursday, 22 September 2011

On the final day of London Fashion Week, which was dedicated to menswear, the designer Lou Dalton drew on seemingly disparate sources – the 1984 miners' strike and Matthew Bourne's 'menacing male ensemble' in the film, Swan Lake.

Zara fashions a rise in profits

Thursday, 22 September 2011

Inditex, the Spanish fashion group, delivered a surge in profits and sales in the first half and vowed to power ahead with its international expansion.

Models leave London in the lurch as they head off to Milan

Wednesday, 21 September 2011

Rebecca Gonsalves: Models left London Fashion Week designers in the lurch, it was claimed yesterday, as many departed early to model in Milan.

Shining lights illuminate final womenswear displays

Wednesday, 21 September 2011

Harriet Walker: London Fashion Week has a reputation for its bright young things and they lived up to it in the most literal way at the final day of womenswear shows in the capital yesterday.

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Burberry brings best of British to the catwalk

Tuesday, 20 September 2011

Susannah Frankel: Trench coats came full-skirted at London Fashion Week, for the modern-day English rose.

Fashion week diary: Samantha's long on invites

Tuesday, 20 September 2011

Samantha Cameron was up bright and early yesterday, all fresh-faced in the front row at Peter Pilotto. Perhaps she was shopping for tonight's London Fashion Week Downing Street reception as she later showed up at both Erdem and Burberry. It's a dirty job, and so forth... Rumour had it, though, that she'd already chosen her look. "She's wearing long," said one onlooker.

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Spring fashion? Wintour is still key to the season

Monday, 19 September 2011

Rebecca Gonsalves: It was not a designer name, but a household one nonetheless, that was the big draw on the third day of London Fashion Week.

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Fashion week diary: Dogs? On the catwalk?; Unfashionably late; Attire fit for queen of New Labour; Editors' Ford focus

Monday, 19 September 2011

Dogs? On the catwalk?

Boris Johnson shows he's not ideally suited to role as Fashion Week champion

Saturday, 17 September 2011

Harriet Walker: Boris Johnson is no stranger to high-end mingling, but if he is to preside over the Olympic fashion showcase next year, he'll need to work on his style-set jargon.

Topman stops sales of 'mysogynistic' T-shirts

Thursday, 15 September 2011

Topman was forced to withdraw two T-shirts from sale yesterday following complaints that they were misogynistic and hinted at domestic violence as a humorous subject.

Vogue group opens London fashion school

Thursday, 15 September 2011

Having long passed judgement on the catwalk via the pages of Vogue, a leading magazine publisher is setting up its own fashion school in London.

Agenda: Henry Holland; Skylar Grey; PostSecret; Joe Goddard; Petersham playhouse; Made in Chelsea

Sunday, 11 September 2011

Fashion: Come rain, you shine

Critic of American Apparel may end up being its star

Saturday, 10 September 2011

Nancy Upton entered American Apparel competition with a parody of the label's notoriously objectifying imagery.