Jane Birkin had agreed to lend her name to the bag after sharing a flight with Jean-Louis Dumas, late former head of Hermès, in the 1980s. Photograph: Rex/Masatoshi Okauchi Reuters in
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Spot checks across the UK will assess whether fancy dress on sale complies with safety standards. Photograph: Joe Fox//Alamy Rebecca Smithers Consumer affairs correspondent Cheap fancy
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People walk past a Louis Vuitton store at Incheon airport in Seoul. LVMH said sales of spirits and cognac to Chinese consumers, including its own Hennessy brand, had rebounded in the third
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Exhibits in the Yves Saint Laurent show at the Bowes Museum. Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images The first exhibition in the UK on the fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent has become the
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Victoria Beckham at her show at New York fashion week. Photograph: Peter Michael Dills/Getty Images Hidden in the small print of the list of nominees for this year’s British Fashion Awards
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Belgian fashion designer Raf Simons at the Christian Dior 2015-2016 autumn/winter haute couture show. Photograph: Francois Guillot/AFP/Getty Raf Simons is leaving Dior after three and a half
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Raf Simons waves goodbye to Dior. Photograph: Ian Langsdon/EPA Lauren Cochrane The similarities between football and fashion once again come to mind this week with the news that Raf Simons
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Alber Elbaz with Meryl Streep at the Fashion Group International night of stars gala in New York last week. Photograph: BFA.com/Rex Shutterstock Morwenna Ferrier Alber Elbaz, the