Fashion week: Angry neighbour storms catwalk

Andrew Hornery   A furious neighbour has marred the opening of night of Mercedes Benz fashion week by storming the catwalk as renowned Australian designer Kym Ellery was closing her show. 

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Five designers who got their break at Australian Fashion Week

Georgina Safe   To celebrate 20 years of glamour, hard work and trailing hems, here are five of the best brands who got their big break at Australian Fashion Week

Maggie Alderson The Rules: It takes time

Maggie Alderson   Rule: Grow into style

Get the look: Dream-colour coats

Erin Munro   Now that the clocks have gone back and the weather's growing colder, it's time to rug up in an eye-catching coat.

Kym Ellery set to raise the barre at Fashion Week Australia before American jete

Jenna Clarke   Just like the iron ore she grew up surrounded by in Australia's north-west, Kym Ellery is one of Australia's most successful exports. Now the aspiring Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest of fashion is getting ready to spread her wings to the City of Angels.

Fashion Week entree

Carla Zampatti's quest to become the Rupert Murdoch of fashion

Jenna Clarke   She's 72 and been running her fashion empire for 50 years but the only thing that is passe, according to Carla Zampatti, is retirement.

Fashion Week entree

Carla Zampatti's quest to become the Rupert Murdoch of fashion

Jenna Clarke   She's 72 and been running her fashion empire for 50 years but the only thing that is passe, according to Carla Zampatti, is retirement.

Pakistan model caught with $US500,000 in her suitcase

She's one of Pakistan's most recognised models, but Ayyan Ali has lately been trying to dodge publicity having spent the past few weeks in prison for allegedly attempting to smuggle half a million dollars out of the country.

Roll back the years without Botox or surgery

Lisa Armstrong   Sometimes an incremental tweak can be your ladder out of that rut.

Luscious locks indeed

How 'rich girl hair' became 2015's biggest trend

Nedahl Stelio   There's one thing in every girl's life we continually struggle with. Something huge, with enormous impact on our day to day. If it works, it can make us. But if it doesn't we are destined to a day filled with uncertainty and self-conciousness. We find ourselves making excuses. "I overslept," or, "It wasn't meant to be like this." But in the end we want to hide under a rug until it all goes away.

Perth pair takes top fashion prize in One Fell Swoop

Candice Barnes   Womenswear label One Fell Swoop was the toast of the town on Monday night after it was named designer of the year at the Western Australian Fashion Awards.

Get the look: Care to bare

Erin Munro   Dare to bare a little skin in cropped T-shirts and semi-sheer skirts.

Coming a cropper

Maggie Alderson   The re-proportioned crop top is simply ab-fab.

What men want

And the biggest fashion turn-offs for men are ...

Nedahl Stelio   Hands up ('scuse the pun) who has dirty fingernails right now?

Street seen: Josie Warren

Erin Munro   Gone are Josie Warren's days of neon track pants and Dunlop volleys.

McDonald's launches its own fashion line

Livia Gamble   McDonald's revealed the new range this week at the McWalk fashion show in Sweden.

Functional to seductive: 350 years of underwear

Lisa Visentin   From the functionality of billowing bloomers to the skimpy satin numbers of the present day, the Undressed exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum offers a peek inside the boudoirs of women and men across 350 years of evolving fashions in underwear. Below are some of the collection's feature pieces.

Blue steel

Zoolander stars in Valentino's new fashion campaign

Jenna Clarke   Not content with crashing Valentino's Paris Fashion Week show to announce the Zoolander sequel, Derek and Hansel now appear in campaign-style images for the luxury Italian fashion house.

Get the look: White of way

Erin Munro   There's nothing vanilla about an all-white ensemble.