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Glossy mags are still in vogue despite tough times

04.11.09
Media analysis: Newspaper sales are going down. Television audiences are fragmenting. But there is one branch of media that has good reason to be cheerful... more

Young designers win store and tips from Jimmy Choo himself

04.11.09
Two up-and-coming designers from east London have won a competition to get a shop in the West End and Jimmy Choo as a mentor... more

Naomi Campbell mingles with Victoria Beckham at London Fashion week

22.09.09
London Fashion Week has been buzzing with countless parties being thrown.... more

Paul Smith salutes London Fashion Week

18.09.09
Paul Smith, the patriarch of Britain's designers, has seen London Fashion Week develop from a chaotic sideshow to a celebrated international circus. Roll up and see the spectacle, he says... more

Fashion Week’s foreign buyers bring London £18.5million

15.09.09
Boris Johnson’s decision to fly in foreign buyers to London Fashion Week has generated £18.5 million in sales... more

London Fashion Week: the capital's most exciting designers

15.09.09
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

This week we're loving...London Fashion Week

15.09.09
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

Nothing rocks like London Fashion Week

10.09.09
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

Jaeger bosses bring Aquascutum home

08.09.09
Aquascutum, whose trenchcoats have been worn by film stars from Humphrey Bogart to Michael Caine, is back under British ownership... more

London Fashion Week sales to top £100 million

04.09.09
Sales at London Fashion Week are set to soar above £100million as buyers target star names including Matthew Williamson and Burberry... more

Now Williamson ‘comes home’ to Fashion Week

01.06.09
Matthew Williamson is returning to London Fashion Week in September which will delight fans at the show's 25th anniversary ... more

Don't you dare call it frivolous, now we need fashion more than ever

23.02.09
As Fashion Week hits London, let’s celebrate an industry that can lift our spirits — and also help the economy defy the downturn... more

Fashion Week in the swing with Costelloe

20.02.09
Paul Costelloe opened London Fashion Week with a very wearable collection of swing coats and shift dresses... more

Boris Johnson flies in fashion week buyers

17.02.09
Boris Johnson is to spend thousands of pounds flying key members of the fashion world into the capital for London Fashion Week... more

Fashion’s awards for rips and lost knickers...not quite as glam as it should have been

26.11.08
Fashion faux pas dominated the British Fashion Council Awards in Westminster.... more

Jourdan Dunn crowned model of the year

26.11.08
Jourdan Dunn capped a stellar 2008 by being crowned Model Of The Year at the British Fashion Awards... more

Jourdan speechless after award shock

26.11.08
Jourdan Dunn capped off a stellar 2008 by being crowned Model of the Year at British Fashion Awards. ... more

Fashion

02.10.08
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

Cilla shakes a lorra, lorra leg

18.09.08
Veteran singer and TV star Cilla Black showed off a magnificent pair of legs as she flounced down the catwalk, to the strains of her hit song Anyone Who Had a Heart... more

London Fashion Week saved after urgent talks

17.09.08
London Fashion Week will run for five days next February after an emergency meeting between the organisers of London, New York, Milan and Paris fashion weeks... more

'More suffering from manorexia'

17.09.08
There are signs that anorexia is increasing at a faster rate among men than women as the beauty and fashion industry puts a greater focus on males... more

London should wear its fashion flair with pride

16.09.08
The showcase week for an industry worth £40 billion to the economy is under threat from abroad — yet it is the lack of support at home that is just as damaging... more

Blow for London in fashion war with New York's power stylists

12.09.08
With London Fashion Week starting on Sunday, we reveal how its future is today under threat as America's top designers bulldoze aside our home-grown shows ... more

Mayor to reconsider Fashion Week grant in size zero storm

11.09.08
Boris Johnson is to reconsider withdrawing funding for London Fashion Week in a row over sizezero models... more

The £4.5 million threat to London Fashion Week

15.08.08
The British Fashion Council's decision not to bring in health certificates and random drug testing for catwalk models could put funding for the capital's fashion showcase at risk... more

Model Erin sells outfits to support budding designers

15.08.08
Erin O'Connor is clearing out her wardrobe to raise funds for a charity that supports up-and-coming stars of the fashion world... more

Real women aren't served by size zero

14.08.08
Let's face it, the fashion world is allergic to real women. Wriggling out of regulating the catwalk, as the British Fashion Council did yesterday, is symptomatic of an industry in thrall to size zero - and in denial about what the female body actually looks like... more

You can't do this to Keira, fashion magazine editors are told

01.04.08
Magazines face restrictions on the use of air-brushed images promoting an ultra-slim ideal of beauty, the Standard can reveal... more

Agencies hit back over too-skinny models: Blame the designers

15.02.08
Designers have refused to use size 12 models on the catwalks at London Fashion week, agencies said today... more

Brown's plan to make Britannia cool again

12.02.08
London will get a national film centre and a permanent home for its fashion week under Gordon Brown's plans to revive the "Cool Britannia" spirit of new Labour... more

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