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The social catwalk - FT.com As the fashion flock descends on New York City, they will be welcomed by cultural mavens suggesting they fill their free time by strolling through the opening of photographer Eugene Atget’s retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, or the show of

How damaging is child modelling? Agencies are snapping up pre-teen celebrity offspring, but does the rush to find the next Kate Moss cause emotional damage?

Window wonderland - FT.com Come December, the term “window shopping” takes on new meaning as boutiques put their creative might into an unspoken competition for the most imaginative displays. Chris Sanderson, co-founder of brand consultancy The Future Laboratory, explains: “Go

Versace for H&M collection revealed - Telegraph The long wait is over as the full Versace for H&M collection is finally revealed.

Paradoxically, the very classical status of the little black dress means that, to reinvent the wheel every season, designers push their creative boundaries in often unexpected ways.

Looking black - FT.com Breakfast at Tiffany’s, the film that probably did more than any other to immortalise the little black dress, turns 50 this month. To mark the event, a memoir about the style-setting film has just been published by Rizzoli, which features scripts,

A number of stores, among them major retail chain Wal-Mart, have started using RFID tags to enable employees to quickly check the stock by scanning items on shelves, and to track products more easily from manufacturing to the final delivery.

Smart jeans: A cause for concern? What if those new jeans you've just bought start tweeting about your location as you cross London Bridge?

Hundreds of workers collapse at Cambodian H&M clothing factory Nearly 300 Cambodian workers passed out in clothing factories last week in the latest of a spate of mass fainting attributed to poor working conditions, prompting an investigation by the clothing chain H&M.

A raid in Sao Paulo found mostly Bolivian immigrants working for a pittance in unsafe conditions.

Zara acts over Brazil sweatshop Fashion chain Zara says it will strengthen its oversight of production after workers were found toiling in Brazil to make clothes for the label.

The process was banned in Turkey in 2009 after evidence was produced to show that 46 former sandblasting operators had contracted silicosis.

Dolce & Gabbana in dock over 'killer jeans' Campaign calls for fashion houses to stop using sandblasting, a technique for producing denim with artificially worn look

The fashion giant Versace yesterday announced that it was throwing its weight behind a campaign to end sandblasting – a manual process used to produce trendy worn-look denim – but which campaigners claim destroys workers' lungs.

Why Versace is putting workers' health before style

Armani's appointment will pitch Italy against Britain on the catwalk as well as the running track, as Stella McCartney is already dressing Team GB.

Giorgio Armani to dress Italian Olympic team | Life and style | The Guardian Italian designer celebrated for relaxed tailoring wins commission to kit out national team for 2012 Games

For marketers interested in mobile, the buzz about HTML5 is promising. This new HTML5 standard essentially makes the juicy, interactive features that made Flash so attractive – video, audio, animation – now achievable within the browser, no downloads or plug-ins required.

HTML5, Apple and the mobile boom: Is your brand ready? - Mobile Marketer - Columns