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  • Wednesday, 5 April, 2023
    The Art of Fashion: Fantastic Shapes
    Heart and soles: the rising stars of shoemaking

    Meet the new-generation luxury footwear designers with a talent for innovation and a passion for responsible materials

  • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
    HTSI
    Dior, diamonds and Duncan Grant – the passions of Kim Jones

    Obsessed with the Bloomsbury Group since childhood, the Dior Men’s designer has amassed one of the world’s greatest collections of its works. Is he also creating a comparable gang for 2023?

  • Friday, 10 February, 2023
    ObituaryPaco Rabanne
    Paco Rabanne, fashion designer, 1934-2023

    He used metal and plastic to create some of the 1960s most iconic looks

  • Friday, 27 January, 2023
    Watches & Jewellery
    Fernando Jorge: ‘When Beyoncé bought my earrings, I went from being a designer to a brand’

    Celebrity customers catapulted the Brazilian into the jewellery spotlight. Now, with a Mayfair showroom, he is plotting his next steps

  • Monday, 23 January, 2023
    ReviewFashion shows
    Paris menswear: ready-to-wear with a couture spirit

    Saint Laurent showed polished power, while Margiela played on ideas of the handmade

  • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
    Style
    Oscar de la Renta is done ‘keeping up with the Joneses’

    The New York-based luxury brand is stepping away from fashion weeks as it prioritises profits over market share

  • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
    Fashion
    Kingdom of Dreams — the making of modern luxury as a ‘gothic fairytale’

    A behind-the-scenes documentary charts the rise of the fashion world’s biggest luxury labels

  • Friday, 7 October, 2022
    Watches & Jewellery
    A century of surrealism on show in London exhibition

    The Design Museum will play host to more than 300 objects and pieces of jewellery that pay homage to the work of Dali, Cocteau, Man Ray and more

  • Monday, 29 August, 2022
    InterviewFashion
    The Paris luxury label that whispers not shouts

    Designer Marie-Christine Statz on why her Gauchere creations help people be themselves, stylishly

  • Wednesday, 24 August, 2022
    The Art of Fashion
    Autumn 2022

    For our autumn fashion special, we preview a season that marks both a return to elegance and a re-grounding in the essentials: familiar clothes enlivened by clever design details. We also speak to Rick Owens, Marni’s Francesco Risso and the Ukrainian designers who are continuing to keep their businesses afloat, and their teams employed, amid war

  • Saturday, 25 June, 2022
    Fashion
    Streetwear’s Nigo is making ‘real-to-wear’ for LVMH’s Kenzo

    The paterfamilias of streetwear is now leading the LVMH-owned label — and keeping the fashion ‘genuinely wearable’

  • Monday, 20 June, 2022
    Art of Fashion: jewellery
    Balmain’s golden boy Olivier Rousteing breaks new ground

    Following a slew of firsts in the creative director’s decade-long tenure at the French label, Olivier Rousteing is overseeing the launch of another: a genderless fine jewellery collection

  • Monday, 20 June, 2022
    The Art of Fashion
    Art of Fashion: jewellery

    Our annual look at the finely worked metals and gemstones that are not only beautiful to behold and to shoot — as seen in our sneak peek of Louis Vuitton’s high jewellery collection — but also increasingly vital for luxury businesses

  • Tuesday, 5 April, 2022
    The Art of FashionArt of Fashion: the British issue
    Why Vivienne Westwood still rules

    Her designs from the ’80s and ’90s are finding an appreciative new audience on TikTok — and bolstering demand for vintage pieces

  • Friday, 1 April, 2022
    Watches & Jewellery
    In with the fashion crowd: fine jewellers become less precious about trends

    With styles that are more experimental than enduring, designers are engaging a younger clientele

  • Sunday, 27 February, 2022
    New York label Vaquera is making ‘fashion fan-fiction’

    The brand behind a dress resembling a Tiffany jewellery pouch is showing at Paris Fashion Week for the first time

  • Monday, 7 February, 2022
    Dolce & Gabbana Srl
    Dolce & Gabbana to take beauty business in-house

    Italian fashion group to make its own perfume and cosmetics as licensing deal with Shiseido ends

  • Friday, 28 January, 2022
    ObituaryThierry Mugler
    Thierry Mugler, fashion designer, 1948-2022

    A creator of transformative and transporting designs that pushed against the trends and upset critics

  • Friday, 21 January, 2022
    ObituaryFashion
    André Leon Talley, fashion journalist, 1948-2022
  • Friday, 3 September, 2021
    Watches & Jewellery
    My Favourite Pieces: Jacqueline Gestetner’s top five pieces from a lifetime of collecting

    The woman behind the Jacqueline’s Choice events picks items including a stylish Emmeline necklace and a Barbara Crowe bangle bought in the Sixties

  • Friday, 23 July, 2021
    News in-depthLVMH
    Virgil Abloh: Louis Vuitton’s expert collaborator and curator of cool

    Vuitton’s head of menswear is an ‘eternal optimist’ and multitasker who disregards rules and limits

  • Friday, 16 July, 2021
    Person in the News
    Phoebe Philo, the cult fashion designer returns

    Known for creating elegant, empowering clothes, the industry darling is back with her own label

  • Monday, 12 July, 2021
    Luxury goods
    Phoebe Philo to launch LVMH-backed fashion label

    British designer who led Céline for a decade to return to fashion industry with own brand

  • Friday, 9 July, 2021
    Watches & Jewellery
    Jewellers and retailers flock to digital marketplaces

    Companies such as Joor and Nouvelle Box take the place of the trade show due to the pandemic

  • Thursday, 8 July, 2021
    Fashion shows
    Couture shows and clients trickle back to Paris

    Despite the pandemic concerns and hassle of restrictions, designers roll out their 1980s-influenced shows and offer a glimpse of a return to better days

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