It didn’t need Christopher Kane to tell us that trainers were having a moment. His were a clash of DayGlo colour, worn with similarly popping mash-up dresses. It was a combo that — what with the catwalk lights — felt like a migraine in the making, albeit a fabulous one. (Sitting front row is blinding…

One has posed naked on a magazine cover, the other is first lady of an ultra-conservative state. You might not think that the reality TV star Kim Kardashian and Sheikha Moza of Qatar would have much in common (Harriet Walker writes). However, they are both poster girls for a growing fashion trend known as “modest…

The speed of fashion in 2015 has accelerated so much that high-street stores are revising business models to satisfy impatient customers’ demands for the latest trend. Retailers previously relied on strategies which meant products take a year to arrive in store. Now they are taking pointers from fast-fashion brands such as Zara, whose in-house design…

Ever thought of buying your dream Saint Laurent shoes on Amazon at the same time as ordering a cordless hedge trimmer? No, us neither. But soon, if the online global retail giant has anything to do with it, you might. Ears began to prick up about this arrival on the fashion landscape two months ago,…

He’s the king of bling – and doesn’t care who knows it. Philipp Plein on women, money and what the next generation wants to wear Midday, Milan, in the sunny garden of a snooty hotel with two fashion PRs: one male (four inches of ankle), one female (four inches of heel). Philipp Plein strides over…

After years in Gucci’s back rooms, Alessandro Michele has put Italian fashion centre stage again. Meet the man reinventing the brand for a cooler generation. When the bearded and bookish Alessandro Michele was anointed creative director at Gucci in January, the fashion industry uttered a collective “Alessandro who?”. Few had heard of the 42-year-old designer…