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A musician from a North Korean military band during the opening ceremony of a new dock at the port of Rajin in July East Asia’s fashion craze for so-called ‘killer heels’ has managed to make its way...

The essential 'movie' prom … Jon Cryer and Molly Ringwald in Pretty in Pink. My daughter's school is having a prom for the first time this year. What's a suitable prom outfit for a 14-year-old? Name...

Model Lindsey Wixson holds the Moschino iPhone case on the catwalk at Milan Fashion Week. It's unusual to see a magazine editor pulling a box of McDonald's French fries from her Chanel handbag at haute...

The glass-roofed atrium at WCEC It seems entirely appropriate that the British Museum, a building bursting with the loot of emperors, kings and pharaohs, should be extended by lords. Lord Foster brought...

A model presents a creation by Italian designer Giorgio Armani Giorgio Armani, who turns 80 on Friday, recently celebrated his 40th anniversary in fashion. His brand is a blue chip name all over the...

A model demonstrates a virtual fitting room The London Eye is probably the right place for blue sky thinking, and there is a lot of it going on as the capsule dangles over a sun-kissed, picture-postcard...

Primark label with a message in Swansea Several weeks ago a story appeared in the South Wales Evening Postabout a shopper who found a label stitched into her Primark dress: "Forced to work exhausting...

It is completely impossible to interview Diane von Furstenberg. It is almost as impossible to meet her without falling just a little bit in love with her. The first, because it is not in her nature to follow...

It's a warm early summer day in New York, and at a fashionable photographer's studio in fashionable Soho Iman is having her portrait taken. On the walls are dozens of enlarged close-ups of other people who...

Juicy Couture – the American brand famous for its tight-fitting velour tracksuits – could be heading for a zip-up of production. A year after its parent company Kate Spade sold the brand off, sales have...