Hermes, the handbags maker currently fending off the advances of LVMH, is in talks to offload its stake in couturier Jean-Paul Gaultier's eponymous label... more
John Galliano was a boy wonder from Streatham who delighted Paris with his decadent take on haute couture. But years of excess have culminated in the untimely end of his career... more
Luxury goods manufacturers ranging from Swiss watchmakers through Scotch whisky distillers to the iconic Burberry fashion house are counting the potential cost of the Japanese crisis... more
Bernard Arnault is on a shopping spree. First his luxury conglomerate LVMH took a stake in the French leather goods firm Hermès and now it has been announced that it has acquired control of the Italian jeweller Bulgari. Apparently the Bulgari deal cost in the region of £3.2 billion... more
LVMH, the owner of Louis Vuitton and a host of other big luxury brands, launches a €3.7 billion deal to buy Italy's Bulgari, paying a premium of almost 60% for the high-end watches and jewellery maker... more
Takeover rumours puts a shine on Kalahari Minerals' shares, forcing the uranium miner to rush out a statement confirming it has attracted a suitor... more
A roster of international investors are waiting in the wings if the Barclay brothers' bid to win control of the company which owns the Berkeley, Claridge's and Connaught hotels falters... more
Elizabeth Sieff's family founded M&S, her uncle was shot by Carlos the Jackal and she has just invented a way to make the biggest luxury brands affordable. William Cash meets a shopping maverick who wants you to join her club... more
The luxury goods market will grow next year for the first time since 2007 thanks to recovering demand from china and growing internet sales, according to management consultants Bain & Co ... more
Designers 'gift' a celebrity one of their items, they wear it to parties and are photographed. Sales soar - and it costs a fraction of a normal ad campaign, says Bella Blissett... 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 millionaire singer looked unsteady on her feet as her film director husband helped her to a waiting car at 10pm, before heading back inside the pub the couple own.... more
Pop star Madonna is close to adopting a Malawian girl called Mercy James. Her husband Guy Ritchie is due to pledge his support for the plan on her birthday.... more
Kate Hudson is nothing if not versatile – at least when it comes to fashion. The star transformed from elegant red carpet darling to party-ready frock star in no time at all while in London to promote her new movie Fool's Gold last night... more
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