Valentino's concoctions of lace and tulle had all the delicate transparency of exotic jellyfish, their luminous membranes pulsating gently in deep-sea depths.

Flower buds curled tight, unfurling frail petals to the tinkle of glass chimes: Issey Miyake's new Japanese designer on Sunday unveiled a poetic spring-summer look based on the life of a flower.

The only rule at Vivienne Westwood is that there isn't one.

Paris Fashion Week kicked off on Tuesday under a cloud of economic pessimism mixed with uncertainty about the creative direction of some of the world's biggest fashion brands including Dior, Louis Vuitton, Celine and Yves Saint Laurent.

Cacophonous floral prints and opulent silks brightened up catwalks at London Fashion Week Tuesday, as the weeklong whirlwind of glamour and glitz featured its last day of womenswear shows.

What's an English beach holiday without rain?

The unveiling of the spring and summer 2012 collections on Friday marked an unofficial end to London's riot-torn, phone-hacked summer and, hopefully, kicks off a bumper fall social season.

Laxman Arondekar, from the Indian resort state of Goa, has got to a point in life where he knows what he wants from a haircut.

Marc Jacobs closed the curtain on New York Fashion Week with a dance hall theme that confirmed some trends for spring and created new ones with a mix of filmy, futuristic fringe, Western-style shapes and drop-waist dresses.

When American Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour visited China for the first time in late 2010 she was blown away by the energy, creativity and entrepreneurial spirit. Wintour, regularly described as the most powerful individual in the fashion world, wasted no time in dispatching Vogue's top photographer, Mario Testino, to Beijing and Shanghai, in a bid to try and capture the China zeitgeist. The results can be seen in the latest issue of American Vogue, which devotes a large section to stunning images of key people in China's fashion, music and art scenes, along with supermodel Karlie Kloss.