Canine couture: fashion’s biggest designers team up for Battersea Cats & Dogs Home

November 8 will see Westies in Westwood, Dachshunds in Deacon, and Staffies in Stella as dog accessories created by Britain’s leading designers are auctioned off in aid of Battersea Cats & Dogs Home.

BY Bibby Sowray | 10 October 2012

Occasionally, fashion uses its power to make good and the night of November 8 will see one such…

Raf Simons on his Dior couture debut

The newly-appointed creative directior of Dior explains the concept behind his debut couture collection for the French fashion house.

BY Bibby Sowray | 18 July 2012

Everyone who is anyone has had their two pennies’ worth on Raf Simons’ Dior couture debut, except the man himself. Until now.

Speaking in a video posted on Dior’s official YouTube page, Simons explains…

Paris Haute Couture: Martin Margiela’s guide to staying stylish under wraps

Veils? So yesterday. Couture Fashion Week closed with a ‘bling’ as Martin Margiela’s models took to the catwalk under cover of crystal.

BY Belinda White | 05 July 2012

Yesterday we reported how veils were all the rage the Paris couture catwalks, from Raf Simons’ hairnet-like face wraps at Dior, and Giorgio Armani’s intricately beaded and bejewelled veils,…

Paris Haute Couture: Christian Dior autumn/winter 2012

Belgian designer Raf Simons dug deep in the Christian Dior archives for his debut at the French fashion house, but this was no slavish homage, writes Lisa Armstrong.

BY Lisa Armstrong | 02 July 2012

Police whistles, a chanting crowd, the city lullaby of angry car horns…it was business as usual outside the Dior couture show in Paris….