Christopher Kane took a big gamble with his 'neon lace' collection but it's paid off handsomely. Here he reveals his passion for all things bright and bold... more
"Sleep is a luxury I have to do without," a young fashion designer told me recently, his panda eyes offering proof. With four days until London Fashion Week kicks off again, he won't be the only one boosting business at the coffee shops around Shoreditch; almost every designer on the roster would make Goldman Sachs's REM-deprived finest look lazy... 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
Louise Gray's acid-pop colours, disco presentations and yeti coats have made the diminutive Highland lass London's favourite fashion firebrand. Hettie Harvey has a Gray day... 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
The knife attack which so nearly killed Oliver Hemsley rocked London’s fashion community. Now he is the driving force behind Art Against Knives... more
We have been branded badly dressed Britain. Our little island may boast Central St Martins and Savile Row but our European cousins have decreed us the worst nation of sartorial sinners... more
London Fashion Week kicks off on Thursday, with a jam-packed roster of events, both on and off the catwalk. Here Laura Craik gives a heads-up on what’s hot... more
Halston, the seriously glamorous 1970s fashion label, has found its ideal creative director in Marios Schwab, an Athenian Austrian with a forensic eye for the female form... more
In the countdown to London Fashion Week, three of the capital’s most exciting designers talk about money, rivalry and why this city has more creative energy than anywhere else in the world... more
To celebrate London Fashion week, limited edition T-shirts will be on sale, tea-house Yumchaa has created a LFW-inspired blend and Perfect Legs, the self-tan product used my models is available at Boots... more
I am always proud of London Fashion Week (OK, apart from a short period in my truculent twenties when I once wrote that there were too many three-legged trousers for comfort), but never more so than this season... more
The editor of British Vogue talks about her opposite number in New York, that fly-on-the-wall documentary, weight, and how we can still enjoy shopping in a recession... more
It’s a brave woman who reaches for the white bikini. So loud is its amplification of every dodgy lump and bump that wearing a sandwich board emblazoned with the words ‘’I have cellulite’’ would be a far less painful experience... more
The shops are full of new clothes for autumn and you need to move fast. But you can’t buy until you decide which look to go for. We give you a seasonal lowdown...... more
Whether it be in Savile Row, magazines, clubs or just accessible high street fashion, the capital leads the way. These are the names that make the fashion world spin.... more
Earlier this week a pack of eager fashion hounds, buyers, breathless students and general camp hangers-on trotted their way around the Serpentine, guided by pouting Lily Allen lookalikes clutching red balloons showing us all the way to the Luella show... more
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