Decadent 17th century French and Italian aristocrats might well have been able to pick out something to their taste from the offerings of Dolce and Gabbana in their ready-to-wear collection for next spring-summer.

British designer Vivienne Westwood's warm eccentricity and frank sensuality imbue a retrospective opening Wednesday, September 26th in Milan alongside fashion week.

Samsung Electronics said it agreed Sunday, September 23rd to develop new premium electronic products with Italian luxury goods designer Giorgio Armani.

Designers trumpeted warmth Monday, September 17th at a London Fashion Week preview with models draped in silk and muslin taking to the catwalk splashed in bronze, brass, chocolate and caramel.

Alessandra Facchinetti has been appointed to design all the women's wear lines for Valentino after the Italian couturier who founded the label announced his retirement, the fashion house said Wednesday, september 5th.

Gaudy, glamorous and a little bit spooky. Gut's Dynamite Cabarets was one of the hot stocks of the 2008 spring-summer Tokyo Collection.

Young designers hoping to elbow their way to the top will get their chance to shine during New York's fashion week, with the spring-summer 2008 collections set to be unveiled here.

Legendary Italian designer Valentino, who has dressed the world's most glamorous women for decades, announced his retirement Tuesday september 4th, saying it was time to bid farewell to the world of fashion.

Designers are using South Africa's premier fashion event to showcase the ethnic diversity and traditional culture of the Rainbow Nation as well as demonstrate a growing national pride.

A Vienna-based stylist is to redesign the wardrobe of the wife of Turkish presidential aspirant Abdullah Gul, including her Islamic headscarf which upsets secularists.

A shoe store so large it requires its own postal zip code opened in New York's upmarket Saks department store Friday, August 17th promising to satisfy even the needs of Manhattan's designer-hungry shoppers.

German fashion house Hugo Boss may soon be on the look-out for acquisitions to grow and wants to buy a second brand name, the group's chairman Bruno Saelzer said in a newspaper interview published on Tuesday, July 24th.

The Indonesian launch of a British designer Anya Hindmarch's bag set for Friday, July 20 was cancelled after chaotic scenes in Hong Kong earlier this month when the item went on sale there.

A Hong Kong shopping centre was Friday, July 6th forced to call in police when huge crowds of people, hundreds of whom had queued overnight, demanded to be let in for the launch of a designer bag.

From John Galliano's celebration of 500 years of painting at Christian Dior to Jean-Paul Gaultier's irreverent take on European and Indian royalty, the latest round of haute couture shows for winter 2008 began and ended on an upbeat note.