Luxury brands benefit as shoppers move from festive giving to self-gifting

eBay’s Phuong Nguyen reveals the opportunity for luxury brands as consumers stop buying Christmas presents and indulge in high-end purchases

Sweet in the middle: map reveals Americans’ art tastes, state by state

A new map made by eBay shows the most searched-for artists by its US customers – and it seems that in the midwest, all Americans want for Christmas is the corny, cosy art of Terry Redlin

British Fashion Council to help young designers on to high street

The BFC Contemporary scheme will encourage new designers to focus on contemporary fashion instead of concentrating solely on the catwalk

Tomorrow’s young fashion designer. LVMH Fashion Prize. 2014 designers’s shortlist

The 30 fashion designers shortlisted for the LVMH Young Fashion Designer Prize.   Meet the next fashion innovators. We will certainly hear these names in the near future. LVMH luxury giant has asked eight creative directors from its houses to select tomorrow’s young fashion designer. Some 1,221 designers entered the LVMH Young Fashion Designer Prize … Read more

Carnevale Italiano. Pulcinella, Arlecchino, Colombina, Stenterello, and Brigella re-interpreted

  The Venetian carnival tradition (the annual Carnevale di Venezia) is most famous for its distinctive masks. The first documented sources mentioning the use of masks in Venice can be found as far back as the 13th century Five of the top names in fashion have interpreted the traditional masks of the Carnevale Italiane in … Read more