My fashion and other animals: why flamingos and leopards are in this spring

The covers and campaigns for the new season are awash with big cats, pink birds and bouncy marsupials. What does it all mean?

It’s handbags: accessory labels do battle at London fashion week

Mulberry’s catwalk return and fun designs from Anya Hindmarch and Hill & Friends raised stakes in a UK market worth £2.7bn

Are the 1890s the new 1990s in fashion?

The decadent fin-de-siècle decade of Oscar Wilde and the Moulin Rouge is a fantastically foppish inspiration on this season’s catwalks

Will Kanye West triumph? Are the four fashion capitals over? New York fashion week is asking questions

A month of fashion shows for autumn/winter 2016 is about to begin, starting in New York on Thursday. Here are six things that will be the talk of the front row this season.