The parents of girls as young as 10 are paying $700 each to enter their daughters in a junior Miss World beauty pageant.

From the high of winning an Australasian fashion competition, an Otago designer is fighting to receive her $12,500 prize money.

Pop stars One Direction have expanded their business empire by launching a cut-price jewellery collection.

A backstage look at the Couture Spring 2013 collection shows in Paris.

Supermodel Kate Upton's saucy Super Bowl advertisement has been criticised by a parenting group for "selling sexual objectification".

Delicacy, nature, architecture and timeless, effortless beauty. Those words describe one of the most sumptuous displays seen this season - courtesy of Valentino. Designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli, and their indefatigable Italian seamstresses, surpassed even themselves perfecting the delicate Valentino silhouette by subtly softening it and exposing more of the neck. The designers said they were inspired by a garden.

Jean-Paul Gaultier makes us travel to Rajasthan through his latest haute couture collection.

French singer Vanessa Paradis has signed up to front fashion house H&M's new environmentally friendly line.

Only a few living designers can execute a couture show where almost every look glistens as much with classic timelessness as it does with innovation. Fashion legend Giorgio Armani, 78, is one of them. Proof was Armani Prive's spring-summer 2013 show on Tuesday: a finely balanced affair contrasting the classic with the exotic.

Viva joins designer Stella McCartney in Miami for a sneak peek at her new sports collection.

A routine of yoga, siestas, massages and seriously healthy eating leaves our editor and her partner blissfully re-energised.

To celebrate his label’s birth as an official Paris couture house, Alexis Mabille went one better than handing out sugared almonds - he sent them down the runway. The French designer’s first show since being made a bona-fide holder of the haute couture appellation was a saccharine affair, from the bubblegum-pink venue to the frothy confections on display.

Giambattista Valli chose the gilded splendour of the Italian Embassy in Paris as his venue, his fourth collection was mostly sleek and sculptural.

Christian Dior chief Sidney Toledano said the house is winning new couture customers and that China is the "big market of tomorrow'', as womenswear artistic director Raf Simons kicked off four days of shows in Paris. Lee Radziwill, sister of the late Jackie Kennedy, and Princess Charlene of Monaco were among those who turned out for Simons's second couture show since replacing the disgraced John Galliano last year. Bernadette Chirac, wife of former French president Jacques Chirac, and Valerie Trierweiler, President Francois Hollande's partner, were also in the front row.

Jeans with moisturising and slimming properties are the latest offering from the fashion world.

Rihanna will make her debut at London Fashion Week with her Rihanna for River Island clothing collection.

Dozens of hopeful models turned out to the Albany shopping mall, keen to be the next big thing on the runway.

An advertisement featuring Mila Kunis in her underwear has been banned in Britain.

US actress Julianne Moore believes that whichever way you look at getting older "wrinkles are not funny".

Taylor Swift has sparked rumours she underwent a breast enlargement after showing off a noticeably fuller cleavage on red carpets recently.