Around one in eight British shoppers and consumers has bought a counterfeit watch, handbag or other product in the last year as it becomes more socially acceptable, a study by lawyers Davenport Lyons and Ledbury Research has found.

The man who said, “Everything that can be invented has been invented,” never wore a bra. (Head of the US Patent office, late 1800s)

When native designer Valentino packed his bags for the catwalks of Paris 17 years ago, Rome's fall from the pinnacle of fashion glory appeared complete.

As manager of the Australian Fashion Council, Zoe Edquist sees more child models than most. Today she has been contemplating the recommendations that have been made by the Model Health Inquiry in Britain.

Mercedes-Benz eyewear at Fashion Week Berlin

Paris designers looked to Hollywood on Wednesday with elaborate creations that will rival on the red carpet.

A lecturer from the department of Drawing of the University of Granada (Universidad de Granada) has carried out the first exhaustive research project in Spain that analyses fashion as an artistic discipline, in relation to painting, sculpture or architecture. The thesis written by Luis Casablanca Migueles studies fashion as “a plural phenomenon, one of the most important contemporary artistic disciplines”.

Watching the gowns at the Christian Lacroix haute couture show was like seeing fabric sculptures come to life. The French designer celebrated his 20th year in business with a sumptuous line-up of outfits that swathed the body in folds of rich velvet or puffs of featherlight chiffon.

British designer John Galliano marked his 10th year at the creative helm of iconic fashion house Dior with an extravagant autumn/winter show in Versailles Palace, inspired by impressionist and modern painters.

The Paris haute couture shows kicked off Monday with Christian Dior holding a celebrity-studded catwalk show and party at the royal chateau of Versailles to celebrate its 60th anniversary.

U.S. fashion designer Liz Claiborne, who created career clothes for the surge of women entering the workforce in the 1970s, died Tuesday. She was 78.

A week after Italian designer Gianfranco Ferre died the fashion house that bears his name presented its summer show for men to a tearful audience that gave him a posthumous ovation.