James Franco Seeing in Techno Color

James Franco, L.A.’s Chateau Marmont and spring’s Techno Color sunglasses. Italian fashion house Gucci turns the spotlight on its new Techno Color Sunglasses Collection with a film directed by and starring James Franco, the ambassador of the luxury Italian label since 2009. Last year, France produced “The Director,” a documentary about Gucci creative director Frida … Read more

Summer style: why it’s all about comfort and joy

Forget the no pain, no gain attitude this coming season. The living is definitely easy in loose shapes and flat shoes

Dolce & Gabbana versus Victoria Beckham: a great fashion comic-spat

From Karl Lagerfeld to Roberto Cavalli, fashion is an industry packed with outlandish characters who revel in playfully picking fights

Emporio Armani’s first Swiss Made watches

      For the first time ever, Emporio Armani combines its design with Swiss watchmaking know-how Emporio Armani promotes its new Swiss-made watch collection which debuted at Baselworld 2014, a first for the Italian luxury brand, through a new cool video featuring a Swiss bank vault setting full of precious secret horological elements. Emporio … Read more

From bomb sites to Bulgari: V&A falls under the spell of Italian glamour

A new exhibition charts how postwar Italy transformed the world’s perceptions of it, using its greatest export: style

Phoebe Philo: ‘I find mediocrity hard’

Céline’s uncompromising creative director gave a rare interview to Alexandra Shulman, discussing the political statement behind her work and the fashion industry’s attitude to women’s bodies