While the US has the largest and most established e-commerce market in the world, it's no secret that Asia and, specifically, China, is catching up fast.

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Women's prison workshops across Italy are joining up under a new commercial fashion brand they hope will help encourage more detainees to learn the trade and give them hope for a future on the...

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Gieves & Hawkes proudly hangs three royal warrants above the door of its Savile Row establishment in London.

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If there's one trend to take away from the summer catwalks, it's the 1950s.

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When Alice Temperley launched her first collection in 2002 - just 25 dresses she had assembled in a garage on London's Portobello Road - little did she think that 10 years later she'd be running a...

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Saint Laurent would often be photographed wearing his safari jacket - long, touching the thigh, belted and with two breast pockets - paired with flared trousers.

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"There is a new attitude from the consumer. He likes to pamper himself, but he also likes to be pampered," says Elisabetta Canali, describing the sort of man who will use the made-to-measure (MTM...

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There was plenty of drama at Christie's Hong Kong Magnificent Jewels auction on Tuesday, which raked in just over HK$640.5 million from about 290 lots including signed pieces from Cartier, Tiffany...

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"Everyone wants to have an individual style," says George Bamford removing his Goyard wallet from his jacket and pointing to the painted initials "G" and "B" to emphasise his point. "Luxury has to...

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If fashion is a barometer for our current state of mind, then the mood on the street right now is rather relaxed. In quite the turnaround, years of body-con dresses, super high heels, the bling,...

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They are two of Italy's top fashion houses, but Giorgio Armani and Dolce & Gabbana have been banned from the official programme of Milan Fashion Week. The reason? The pair are not due-paying...

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As oxymorons go, Allan Chan Chee-kooi has created a fitting one: a smart dummy.

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