The latest fashionable size for a woman, the equivalent of the waistband on a six-year-old girl’s skirt, perpetuates the irresponsible and unhealthy message put out by the industry, for commercial gain.

Fashion rules are made to be broken, Rihanna told a glittering crowd of fashion industry leaders, and her outfit dramatically conveyed that message: a sheer fishnet gown, sparkling with thousands of embedded crystals, that left little to the imagination.

The most booked models on the Fashion Week circuit had the waist circumference of a seven-year-old child (22 inches). Annmarie O’Connor explores the unwelcome return of the size zero debate.

It takes 20 people three hours to prepare a model for a Vogue shoot. A new video looks at the role flattering lights, makeup and post-production photo-shopping all play in creating a model woman.

If the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) awards are the fashion Oscars, Nicole Richie wins the ‘too-skinny but great dress’ award for this Marc Jacobs shimmery number, served up with some side boob.

Gwyneth Paltrow has volunteered to be auctioned off as a lunch date.

From celeb-filled fundraisers in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village to state dinners at the White House, rumours of political aspirations for the Vogue editrix are flying around town.

Katie Holmes greeted well-wishers in a black leather blazer and gold beaded heels as she became the latest celebrity to take a serious stab at fashion with her Holmes & Yang preview at New York Fashion Week.

MARY-KATE and Ashley Olsen, whom most people know as the diminutive former child stars of Full House and an endless stream of straight-to-video tween movies, are inspecting a rolling rack of crisp white cotton shirts and another one lined with black stretch-leather leggings seemingly sized for miniature gazelles.

The fashion world has announced another tribute to the late British designer Alexander McQueen.

Victoria Beckham has defended the use of size zero models.

The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) is set to issue guidelines to designers ahead of the city’s fashion week in February.

Rap mogul Sean Combs is about to assume his P Diddy persona again.