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Summer fashion heads into the comfort zone

Voyager shirt from David Jones.

Janice Breen Burns Just as women re-embrace the mother of all discomforts - elastic "shapewear" - men's wear opts for comfort.

Fashion's new power brokers

Dolce and Gabbana frock.

When Dolce and Gabbana positioned bloggers in the front row at their 2010 Spring/Summer show, they signalled the arrival on the scene of a new set of fashion industry power-brokers.

Cool for hats: men's headwear back in fashion

Robert Carroll fits a hat on a customer.

Kelsey Munro Blame it on the races, MasterChef, Australian Idol or So You Think You Can Dance: men's hats are back. And that's good news for a Sydney business that never thought they went away.

Men's fashion: big business

Raven Jones

Peter Munro Lunch time in the city and a lean man walks by wearing grey tights and Jesus sandals. Posing nearby is a posse of young men in jeans dangling halfway down their designer briefs.

Men's fashion - think Bob the Builder

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Janice Breen Burns Simple, minimal, multi-functional men's wear is what you need, writes Janice Breen Burns.

Fashion the Philippe Starck way

Philippe Starck

French designer Philippe Starck is on a quest for responsible clothing, Lizzy Davies reports from Paris.

Fashion thumbs nose at crisis in Paris men's shows

John Paul Gaultier

Gender-bending sailors, NYC bikers and chameleon man strode the catwalks at the opening of Paris Men's Fashion Week.

Fashion's billionaires

Luis Vuitton CEO Bernard Arnaut

Marie Thibault, Forbes.com These fashionistas make a few bucks every time you go for a run, try on some jeans or buy a new pair of shades.

Ask the stylist: snow fashion

Ask the stylist pics supplied10TH AUGUSTMy girlfriends and I are heading to the snowfields for a week, howeverI'm not sure my fluoro green one-piece ski-suit from 1986 still cuts itin the style stakes. What's hip in skiwear these days? Burton jacket, $XX, from Auski - emailed through Burton pants, $XX, fromAuski - emailed through Salomon ski boot, $XX, from Auski - emailedthroughPrada sunglasses, $380, from OPSM

Sophie Hexter What's hip in snow wear these days? Stylist Sophie Hexter ditches her one-piece ski suit.

Fashion Week warms to va-va-voom

Launch of GPO's Spring Fashion Carnival 2008.

Janice Breen Burns Melbourne Spring Fashion Week's first public event appeared to be a cold fizzer.

'Pied Piper of fashion', dead at 71

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Farah Farouque, with agencies Farah Farouque pulls together the colourful threads in the life of a fashion legend.

Jewels return to runway at Milan Fashion Week

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Baubles and bangles have returned to the Milan runway after several seasons locked tightly in the jewellery box.

On the fashion radar: bows

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The oversized bow, once a feature of Madonna's wardrobe, is back in vogue.

Real life, after a fashion

Metro.Pic shows Dr. Lisa Dethridge for story on fashion in Second Life (online).Pic Simon Schluter,10 July 2008.sms080710.001.002.jpg

In a virtual world, you get to build yourself from the ground up - clothes included.

Fashion Week too expensive

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Angela Cumming Calls for Australian Fashion Week to be overhauled.

On the radar: Mad Men fashion

Mad Men - Jon Hamm  as Don Draper

The '60s stylings of a cult TV show prove a fashion favourite, writes Rachel Wells.

Fashion flashback

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Sophie Hexter If you are thinking about racewear fashions, take a step back into the days of The Great Gatsby.

Fashion cleans up NY punk venue

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John Varvatos opens a shop in the space that once housed famous music club CBGB.

Fop fashion

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Rachel Wells Menswear is having an aristocratic moment, writes Rachel Wells.

The height of men's fashion

The man heel is going over big in Melbourne.

Rachel Wells Nicolas Sarkozy wears them. So too Tom Cruise, Daniel Craig and Marc Jacobs. Check out this season's hottest new trend: man heels.