As grey power takes hold, Rose Mary Roche wonders why so many women are happy to go silver and even more are seeing it as a fashion.

THE fashion world welcomes fabulous eccentrics. Attention is vital for survival, so those who strike a dramatic, individual, colourful presence get media space and transform column inches into lucrative fashion roles.

What connects Knockvicar, Co Roscommon with Nicki Minaj's cleavage?

Is hiring a big name all it takes to ensure a platinum-selling beauty product these days, or in a world where celebrity is now an elastic concept, is it a harder sell? Kirstie McDermott finds out.

Lady GaGa reportedly paid the highest ever price for an Alexander Mcqueen design.

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SITTING front row at a Joanne Hynes fashion show should require seat belts — to counter the creative whiplash on the runway.

PARIS, Milan, London, New York, Cork?

ONE of fashion’s biggest names, US Vogue editor Anna Wintour, has praised the British fashion industry for having a “sense of humour”.

Kate Moss may be losing her style icon status after dropping down a list of Britain's best dressed women.

Singer Gwen Stefani has knocked Kate Moss off the top of the best dressed list.