The Look

The glitzy runway shows of Paris, Milan, London and New York attract designers, models, journalists, buyers, celebrities, wealthy clients and knock-of...

How marketing techniques - diffusion, franchising and licensing - can mean success or failure for a designer. And a look at Giorgio Armani's lessons i...

There is a complex of interests among designers, buyers, retailers and the fashion media, all of whom share a common goal - continuing turnover in a m...

From haute couture to high street to street cred, personal identity can be bought off the peg in the form of fads, trends, looks and national styles....

For these three fashion designers, cloth is the essence of the art of design. Futurist Issey Miyake makes hi-tech, innovative use of fabric; Gianni Ve...

No couture season can end without the YSL collection. But the man whom many call the greatest designer of the 20th century is reclusive, sensitive and...