I can't imagine Anna Wintour was ever a punk with safety pins and bondage trousers, besides she was 28 years old in 1977 so hardly a rebellious teen from the suburbs. However, she has chosen punk as this year's theme for the Metropolitan Museum's annual Costume Institute exhibition.

I can't imagine Anna Wintour was ever a punk with safety pins and bondage trousers, besides she was 28 years old in 1977 so hardly a rebellious teen from the suburbs. However, she has chosen punk as this year's theme for the Metropolitan Museum's annual Costume Institute exhibition.

The average American woman owns about 20 pairs of shoes, but if you are fanatical about footwear - this post is for you. The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York is mounting an exhibition entitled Shoe Obsession, and...

The Milan Fashion Week schedule is an impressive list of powerhouse labels from Armani, Prada, Fendi, Cavalli, Versace and Gucci. Italian luxury brands also appear impervious to the economic crisis thanks to demand from wealthy consumers in the Far East. So why...

The Milan Fashion Week schedule is an impressive list of powerhouse labels from Armani, Prada, Fendi, Cavalli, Versace and Gucci. Italian luxury brands also appear impervious to the economic crisis thanks to demand from wealthy consumers in the Far East. So why...

2012 saw HBO score another hit with Girls, with its multi-tasking writer, director and star Lena Dunham winning best actress at The Golden Globes this week. The show follows the lives of four recently graduated twenty-something women as they make their way in New York, but unlike its big sister...

This week sees the opening of a major new exhibition in London celebrating the 50 year career of one of fashion's most illustrious designers, Valentino Garavani. "Valentino: Master of Couture" focuses on the ever more rarefied world of haute couture. The exhibition at Somerset House showcases over 130 hand-crafted designs;...

This week sees the opening of a major new exhibition in London celebrating the 50 year career of one of fashion's most illustrious designers, Valentino Garavani. "Valentino: Master of Couture" focuses on the ever more rarefied world of haute couture. The exhibition at Somerset House showcases over 130 hand-crafted designs;...

When do luxury labels lose their cachet? Forbes Contributor Blue Carreon wrote earlier this year that as the Hermes Birkin bag is so ubiquitous in Singapore and Hong Kong - is it possible the bag has gone out of fashion? Ubiquity signals the death knell for exclusivity and nowhere is...

The fashion world is moving on to spring/summer 2013 Ready-to-wear this month; but for the rest of us summer is winding down and we're getting ready to update our winter wardrobes instead. So here is a quick edit of the top trends for fall/winter 2012-13.

In today's blog I thought I'd share my fabulous finds at this week's Scoop International Show. Launched in 2011 it's an industry fashion fair for boutique labels held at the Saatchi Gallery in London's Chelsea.

Scoop prides itself on being fashion forward and nurturing creativity. This year it...

Last week Glamnet's owner, Joanne, was invited to preview the Daphne Guinness Collection which will go under the hammer at Christie's tonight. Daphne was there to present the collection, and talked movingly about her friend and fellow fashion muse Issie: "the sale was the only poetical way for me to...

How to follow last year's record-breaking Savage Beauty Alexander McQueen exhibition? The Met has turned to 'Ugly Chic', surreal style, skeleton dresses, lobsters and torn flesh.

Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations is the title of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute spring 2012 exhibition; launching this week with the...

Last week I visited the Global Salone Internazionale del Mobile, a.k.a. Milan Design Week 2012; it's the largest interior design show in the world and where all the leading brands come together to exhibit. Manufacturers and designers choose this event to launch new products and innovative technological design for the...

Fur, leopard print, geometric prints, gothic and silver are the key trends to emerge from Milan Fashion Week's fall/winter 2012-13 collections. This was confirmed by a trip to the White Milan Show, a fair for fashion buyers that takes place concurrently with the big name designer runway shows.

Fur is...

A couple of years ago, no urban fashionista would be seen dead in a jacket with corduroy elbow patches. How things change - practical country clothing, once the preserve of farmers and fisherman, is now fashionable and has spread to the city and suburbs....

Last Season fashion referenced the 1940s, this season designers have revisited an earlier vintage. The Jazz Age proved a strong influence on Milan and New York Fashion Weeks last September, and is set to be one of the key trends for Spring/Summer 2012.

Both...

Today I am feeling buffed, scrubbed, soft and dewy. My new glow is the result of a day of indulgence at Milan's QC Terme spa; I'm not sure how long it will last, but for now I am feeling blissed out. Anyway, I got...

Marie Claire's online magazine has a gallery of The Ten Best Oscar Dresses of All Time, but I think they should rename the article The Ten Best Oscar Dresses of the Last 10 Years. Not one dress pre-dates 2001 and the magazine...

The 1940s are back with us! OK, not the war or the rationing thank goodness, but the style of that decade is definitely having a fashion renaissance. Films like The King's Speech and Madonna's Wallis Simpson biopic, W.E., have helped re-awaken interest in...