Louis Vuitton’s Nicolas Ghesquière brings digital punk to Paris catwalk
Show at Frank Gehry-designed gallery, featuring models resembling wild creatures from Mad Max, sees fashion house marry high art with big commerce
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Forget fashion shops: how designers embraced art exhibitions
In fashion, it’s all about the blockbuster exhibition, with multiple fashion houses staging their own exhibitions. Is it more than mere vanity?
Six lessons in chic from the Iris Apfel documentary
A documentary about the nonagenarian style maestro opens in UK cinemas this week – and offers many wise words on living a fabulous life
New York Fashion Week Men’s: streetwear, champagne and dandies
As the inaugural New York menswear fashion week draws to a close, we report from the frows of Manhattan. But were the clothes cutting edge enough to rival Paris, London and Milan?
Lab-grown leather is coming, but is the industry ready for it?
A startup, Modern Meadow, is attempting to develop a biomaterial alternative to leather as prices rise. Will it succeed – and will it have a market?
Saint Laurent’s skinny model is just the thin end of the wedge
It’s not just the skinniness of these young women that we should be worried about. It’s the fashion industry’s fetish for female frailty