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A vintage year for beauty

18.11.09
Ever yearn for the time when grooming was de rigueur? Now London has plenty of luxury retro salons for ladies and gentlemen... more

Get wild and woolly for winter

17.11.09
Whether you snuggle into your knitwear by the fire or out of doors this winter, there is only one trend - the bigger the better, says Karen Dacre... more

It's not time for a Zaha Hadid backlash

17.11.09
The world's most glamorous architect has just unveiled a futuristic new museum in Rome - and her Olympic Aquatics Centre is taking shape. They may be extravagant, but there is still value in thinking big... more

Cheer up! It's fashionable to smile

12.10.09
When Anna Wintour and Posh Spice are both caught on camera showing teeth, you know something's afoot. Happiness isn't just infectious, says Jasmine Gardner - it's fashionable, too... more

Welcome to Chanel country

06.10.09
At Paris fashion week's Chanel show, guests sat on imitation hay bales in front of a wooden barn, while models emerged from an archway cut into a giant haystack... more

This week we're loving

06.10.09
To mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month, New Zealand design duo Zoe and Morgan have joined forces with Breakthrough Breast Cancer and mywardobe.com to create a mini-capsule collection... more

French fantasy: behind the scenes at the Paris Couture shows

24.07.09
The Paris Couture shows are a whirlwind of tulle, diamonds and bows... more

Lily Allen's outfit is a little bit silly

28.04.09
If Lily Allen is going to a fancy dress party, and she’s decided to go as a hoodlum.... more

French cross Channel to buy Chanel in London

23.03.09
Channel-hopping shoppers are taking advantage of the weak pound and flocking to London to snap up famous French brands, retailers said... more

Let them meet Kate! Spirit of Marie Antoinette at Chanel

10.03.09
At the Chanel show guests gleaned final confirmation of a fact they had suspected for some time: that the front row is more important than the clothes... more

The best front row ever

04.03.09
Just as we were beginning to despair about the lack of A-listers at Milan Fashion Week... bang, Dolce & Gabbana gave us the best line-up in years... more

Lily Allen may not mind fame so much after all

04.02.09
She may moan about the perils of fame, but Lily Allen wasn't complaining when she was given a bag of freebies by Chanel.... more

Putting a stop to world ugliness

05.01.09
Hands up who worked last Friday? Karl Lagerfeld, for one... more

In the red

29.12.08
It’s de rigueur to face up to the downturn with a defiant scarlet pout... more

Welcome to the house of Chanel

03.10.08
Stock markets might rise and fall, but Chanel is unassailable: at least, this was the message it sought to put across in its Paris show... more

Lily Allen's hot pink boots are made for recording

12.09.08
Lily Allen is certainly making a performance out of her daily trips to the studio. But this time she's let her hot pink 'shoe-boots' do the talking. ... more

Singer Lily Allen steps out in a pair of gravity-defying looking platform shoes

11.09.08
Lily Allen's shoes no doubt raised more than a smile, if not a full on belly laugh as the singer stepped out in west London wearing a pair of gaudy, gravity-defying platform soles.... more

20 years on and the world's greatest supermodels are back - without a wrinkle between them

26.08.08
They should be well past their sell-by date - but the original supermodels of the Eighties and Nineties are eclipsing many of their teenage rivals and fronting this season's most coveted collections. ... more

The Eighties supermodels who are back in Vogue

26.08.08
The veteran supermodels are back: two decades older but mysteriously unwrinkled, they are eclipsing rivals half their age this autumn... more

Golden oldie Claudia still making waves at Chanel

28.06.08
Nineties supermodels are still reigning supreme with Naomi Campbell fronting a campaign for Yves Saint Laurent and Claudia Schiffer being chosen as the face of Chanel’s Autumn/Winter collection.... more

Chanel casts a £3million spell on Mademoiselle Hermione

14.06.08
As Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films, she is used to dealing with all sorts of revolting potions. And now Emma Watson is to be the new face of the Chanel fragrance Coco Mademoiselle.... more

Tara Palmer-Tomkinson flashes her sweaty armpits in transparent shirt

11.06.08
Tara Palmer-Tomkinson made a less than fragrant appearance at a Chanel store opening in London, when she lifted up her arms to reveal her enormously sweaty armpits... more

Trinny Woodall steps out with wedding ring in bid to end marriage split rumours

11.06.08
Television star Trinny Woodall attempted to dispel rumours that her nine-year marriage was on the rocks as she stepped out wearing her wedding ring last night.... more

Give us a cocktail ring: Celebrities flash the new darling of accessories

24.05.08
After gigantic handbags, celebrities are flashing the latest fashion must-have: cocktail rings – and the bigger the better.... more

Anna Kournikova flaunts sexy secretary look and forgets to button up her shirt revealing lacy bra

16.05.08
Despite taking a break from professional tennis, it looks like Anna Kournikova has kept in shape. Regular gym sessions have served the 26-year-old well as the Russian beauty turned heads arriving at the Raleigh Hotel for the Chanel cruise show in Miami yesterday... more

Still super: Claudia Schiffer plays sex kitten for Vogue magazine

14.05.08
She dominated the catwalk during the 1990s, now Claudia Schiffer is proving she's still worthy of supermodel status. The 37-year-old has stripped off - save for briefs, hold-ups and a feline mask - in a provocative cover shoot for the German edition of Vogue magazine... more

TomKat and the Beckhams turn on some old-fashioned glamour - but was it TOO old for Posh?

06.05.08
Team Cruise and Team Beckham reunited on the red carpet last night at the social event of the season, the annual Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute Gala, which drew a who's who roll call of international stars ... more

Supermodel Claudia Schiffer falls for fashion maestro Karl Lagerfeld during New York photoshoot

26.03.08
She may be a 37-year-old mother of two but supermodel Claudia Schiffer yesterday showed why she still cuts it in the fashion world. She looked stunning in spats and a beret during a New York photoshoot with Chanel maestro Karl Lagerfeld. The German model appeared lose her composure for a second when she stumbled to the ground. But with Lagerfeld snapping away, it became clear it was all part of the project for the French label... more

Karl, king bitch on the catwalk

02.11.07
Lagerfeld Confidential documents the life of the designer who, if he wasn't so talented, would be easier to detest, says Becky Davies.... more

Big names sign up for Fashion Rocks

14.09.07
Lily Allen, Joss Stone and Beth Ditto are among those who will perform at this year's Swarovski Fashion Rocks concert at the Royal Albert Hall.... more

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