Luxury fashion cannot just be equated to 'carrying a designer handbag on your arm'; it's the lifestyle we experience. In the words of Coco Chanel, 'Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street. Fashion has to do with ideas, with the way we live.'

I want you to know that I don't wear vintage every day. No sir! I am actually a little bit of a designer whore on the side... Give me access to Net-a-Porter, a juicy Malbec (see my bio) and a flexible friend (Monsieur's Visa or Amex, I'm not fussy) and you can keep me quiet for hours.

I was first bitten by the vintage bug in 1983, borrowing my grandma's 60s kitten heeled sling backs - they had toes so pointed you could have impaled anyone you kicked. I carefully borrowed a few of grannie's pieces - mostly shoes, jewellery and handbags to add to my puff ball skirts, explosive hair and wrist to elbow silver slave bangles.

It's official - Scotland is having a fashion moment. Harvey Nichols has just celebrated its 10th anniversary, Hayley Scanlan was name Scottish Young Designer of the Year 2012, and today, fashion designer extraordinaire, Karl Lagerfeld, brings CHANEL's Métiers d'Art 2012/13 show to the capital city, Edinburgh.

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A few years ago Fashion Shows were strictly for the media elite only. Top editors sat front row with their notepad and pens and were privy to a preview the rest of us would have to wait months to see. Nowadays however things have changed...

Photo Credit: Courtesy of Misa Harada What is your best all time fashion moment? Back in 2001 when I was starting my company our hats were on the a...

When it's scorching outside, a part of me knows there's a group of very overheated design graduates setting up for yet another year of the New Designers exhibition. Whether it's purely down to the weather or just the 3,500 excited students in one building, the heat is cooled by the refreshing perspective on design that awaits inside.

Team Armani took to Twitter this afternoon to share a sneak peek at Rihanna's new collection for the Italian fashion house... The singer is already...

When I discovered the work of Spanish designer, Elisa Palomino last year, it was a moment of triumph for me. Finally I had found a designer that seeme...

There is always at least one venue at the bi-annual London Fashion Week that strays a little further from the main hub of the event, Somerset House, and insists on testing my time management and cardiac health.

Ever wondered where Jedward get their crazy trainers from, or the Tony the Tiger coats they bumbled about in on Celebrity Big Brother?

Photo credit: Courtesy of Jonathan Adler Style innovator Jonathan Adler recently set up his chic shop in Brompton Cross, London. From interior and t...

Last week we brought you the glossy new Versace for H&M look book, but we've just got our hands on all the imagery from the collection (as well as som...

Finally! Versace for H&M hits stores on 17 November, and quite frankly, we're predicting stampedes. The glossy look book was released this morning,...

Did you always know that you wanted to be a designer? I think it's all I can really do. When I was a child the first thing I did were drawings of f...

Featuring hand drawn illustrations of their subjects with details of the scandal scrawled and cut'n'pasted alongside in a truly punk fashion, CLS brings us some fun, tongue in cheek Ts that include Lady Gaga and the Meat Dress vs Peta, Karl Lagerfeld and Tom Ford's anti-fatty rants...

It was only a matter of time before Cheryl Cole made her foray into the fashion world, and now that she's no longer got that pesky X Factor taking up ...

Photo credit: Courtesy of Wayne Lee Before launching her own line, Wayne Lee was a former buyer at Barneys, who was known to arrive to work wearing ...

Earlier this week we told you that French fashion house Isabel Marant is setting up shop in London, and now there's another hot designer name hitting ...

She's the queen of spectacular graphics and mind-bending prints - not to mention one of the hottest tickets on the London Fashion Week schedule - so n...

It's the go-to brand for stars who love their street style, and now French designer Isabel Marant is coming to London. With an ever-increasing A-li...

These stylish insiders know how to keep their careers and love lives in check. Learn how they met and see what tips and tricks they do to keep the relationship alive.