Fashion & Beauty

PARIS - 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.

PARIS - Stephane Rolland finally hit the right esthetic for his spring-summer 2013 couture show in Paris, perfecting his take on pure architectural styles.

PARIS - One palace, 90 oak trees and more than 3,000 bushes is the kind of luxury that spells only one thing: Chanel haute couture.

WASHINGTON - Michelle Obama made it a fashion tradition Monday night, wearing a custom-made Jason Wu gown to the inauguration balls.

PARIS - There's never a grey moment for haute couture. As it snowed outside, it was a spring garden party for Christian Dior on Monday, the first day of Paris's spring-summer 2013 season.

PARIS - A garden within a garden was the setting for Christian Dior's flower-obsessed — and typically decadent — couture show.

PARIS - Iris Van Herpen's electrifying haute couture show should have come with a warning sign: Danger High Voltage.

PARIS - Maurizio Galante is inspired by nature. To the sound of birdsong, the Italian-born designer presented a textural and organic haute couture spring-summer show 2013.

PARIS - White was the colour of Paris menswear fashion shows for fall-winter. But it was not in the clothes.

PARIS - There was an air of the self-searching Seventies student in Hedi Slimane's debut menswear show at the rebranded Saint Laurent.