Valentino Garavani, known to most simply as 'Valentino', is one of the world's last great living couturiers. The legendary fashion designer has dressed everyone from Jackie Onassis to Princess Marie Chantal of Greece and Julia Roberts.

London's Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) is marking the unveiling of its refurbished fashion galleries on 19 May with the exhibition 'Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950'.

Economic forecasts might be on the gloomy side right now but couture is booming. Despite eye-watering price tags - not that you'd be vulgar enough to ...

Another season, another round of hand-crafted, high-octane haute couture to feast your eyes on - and the spring 2012 shows certainly gave us a healthy...

If there's one lady who has been stealing the limelight at couture in Paris this week, it's Cameron Diaz. ...

The world's most famous fashion editors, supermodels and movie stars flocked to Paris yesterday afternoon which could only mean one thing - it was tim...

Jessica Chastain and Cameron Diaz, who appears to have cleared her entire diary for the couture shows in Paris this week, were front-row friends at th...

Imagine that Lady Gaga or Daphne Guinness or Anna Dello Russo played football, this would be EXACTLY the shoes that they tottered around the pitch in....

Jessica Chastain spent the last twelve months exploding onto our radars with an array of fabulous fashion and even more fabulous onscreen performances...

At last night's Golden Globes we saw Hollywood glamour at its best, and guess what? There wasn't a fake strip lash, tattooed brow or hair extension in sight. Reese Witherspoon, Charlize Theron and Nicole Kidman all chose to play down their classic coutures and enhance their natural beauty with nude make up, healthy skin and tousled shiny locks.

Answer me this: do you ever try to pronounce the word 'haute' or do you wilfully ignore it in favour of a simple 'couture'? As someone whose tongue actively repels credible foreign accents and pronunciation, any attempt to talk about haute couture with colleagues induces that very dilemma and adds an extra scoop of resentment to my angry (and metaphorical) ice-cream sundae.

Fabergé has announced its first series of authentic Fabergé egg pendants in 90 years. The jewellery brand - a name synonymous with luxury and cra...

Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli unleashed a collection of gorgeous dress after gorgeous dress for a/w 2011/12 in a collection that felt et...

The Lebanese designer is known for his red carpet-ready, rhinestone-encrusted frocks which the Hollywood set flock to, and while his beaded creations ...

Wardrobe essentials (camel coats, Fair Isle jumpers, wide-leg trousers) mixed with classic JPG fun wear (crinoline skirts, bomber jackets, conical bod...

Looking at these pictures of Daisy Lowe at couture week, two things spring to mind - the first is the word 'va-va-voom' and the second is that she's d...

It looks like Olivia Palermo packed her front row couture-viewing suitcase full of cute high street dresses if her latest Paris outfit is anything to ...

The show paid homage to the history of the label with a statue of Coco taking centre stage - atop the column in the recreated Place Vendôme that Lage...

From Alexa Chung to Diane Kruger, Karl Lagerfeld's dark arts drew a stellar bevvy of starlets to his Chanel couture show at Paris' Grande Palais last ...