The collapse of the front row at the Balenciaga show set the tone for a Paris Fashion Week that fell short of London's impact, says Karen Dacre... more
American Vogue editor Anna Wintour, former editor of French Vogue Carine Roitfeld and photgrapher Mario Testino hit the floor as black plastic benches buckled at the Balenciaga show... more
He may be worth more than $70 million but to the British fashion industry Kanye West is known, quite simply, as The One Who Turned Up Late For That Christopher Kane Show... more
Can't stretch to designer outfits but find the high-street look too ubiquitous? Laura Craik and Karen Dacre introduce four hot niche labels with catwalk good looks but less expensive price tags ... more
Yamamoto has been playing for decades with centuries of silhouettes. This show is a flutter through the delicate butterfly imagination of a very artistic man... more
Having cast a spell over the whole of Hogwarts in the Harry Potter films, Clémence Poésy has graduated to bewitching fashion designers and film directors. She's magic, says Hermione Eyre ... more
Chau Har Lee, who grew up on a Marylebone council estate, is being hailed as the next big thing in shoe design, with a collection at Selfridges and Kate Moss a big fan... more
Sophia Kokosalaki's fashion odyssey has taken her from a Cretan mountain top to the catwalks of Milan via Hackney. Tim Blanks has an audience with the diva of drapery... more
As the high street giant opens its new multi-million-pound flagship store across the road from Harrods, Vassi Chamberlain asks if the fashionistas of Knightsbridge can be lured into this teenage Mecca.... more
No gimmicks, no showing-off — the month of fashion shows was rounded off with Gallic savoir faire and beautiful stylish clothes. But the star of the French shows was British... more
The Marais in the 4ème arrondissement is a chaotic cobbled enclave, worlds away from the chilly boulevards of 19th-century Paris. Gianluca Longo loses himself among the bourgeois bohemians... more
Analysis: As fashionistas become recessionistas and their appetite for £10,000 python-skin handbags and glitzy watches wanes, companies making and selling top-name brands are anticipating a miserable Christmas.... more
The future Mrs Wayne Rooney is at it again - this time turning heads in a Grecian-inspired outfit ahead of the Grand National and a style competition. The annual style competition was delayed after judge Coleen McLoughlin was caught up in heavy traffic around the Aintree Racecourse
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An ultra-thin Victoria Beckham was spotted in Mayfair today, showing off her skinny legs in an incredibly tight oufit. Posh revealed the extent of her plummeting weight as she showed off her stick-thin pins in a pair of black leather leggings
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