Fashion designers are deserting vertiginous heels but still want to put you on a pedestal. Emma McCarthy says the smartest shoes have suddenly got a lot more sole... more
Italian luxury goods group Prada prices its Hong Kong share offering at the lower end of its planned range, meaning it will raise $2.1 billion (£1.3 billion) which is $500 million less than originally targeted... more
So George Osborne has fired the starting gun on the auction for Northern Rock - a one-time building society that became a bank, went into the FTSE 100, then went bust and had to be nationalised in February 2008... more
Pension funds and investment houses may have been keen to sign up for shares in Prada's $2.6 billion Hong Kong flotation, but the public have been less so, it has emerged... more
Shares of Italian fashion house Prada, which is floating shares in Hong Kong, could be overpriced by as much as 41 percent, an influential Hong Kong brokerage, Phillip Securities has said... more
She played with The Fall, dated Nigel Kennedy, helps Gok Wan, and owns one of London's über stores. And her mantra, stylist Brix Smith-Start tells Liz Hoggard, is 'every customer is special'... more
Italian luxury goods company Prada receives approval to list shares in Hong Kong, moving ahead with plans for an initial public offering worth about $2 billion... more
Good news for armchair shoppers and Alice Temperley fans alike: this month the London-based designer is taking her Alice by Temperley label online... more
Milan Fashion Week opened with Alpine deluxe. D&G made après-ski chic with its chunky reindeer-knitted bodysuits in burgundy and white, and yeti boots ... more
Girls who don’t care to look like the sequined fairy off the top of the Christmas tree this month, be of good cheer. Karen Dacre offers the elegant alternative... more
Women's footwear has long been about sex. This season's must-haves stretch so high they've been dubbed 'vagina boots'. But who actually dares wear them, asks Liz Hoggard... 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
Orlando Bloom and his new love, Victoria's Secret lingerie model Miranda Kerr, made their first public appearance together in her native Australia over the weekend. The pair arrived arm-in-arm for a day at the races in Sydney, where they drew more attention that then action on the track. It was a case of mixing business with pleasure for Miranda, who was at the event as the face of Australian retailer David Jones
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