A new book about Coco Chanel captures the spirit of the great designer. Here Viva explores how Chanel revolutionised women's fashion, and why, even 25 years after Karl Lagerfeld took over, the label remains as iconic as ever.

Lagerfeld's shows are never presented on anything less than the grandest scale but, even so, such an ostentatious display of wealth and power was breathtaking.

Prominent figures from the world of art and architecture demand action over huge, floodlit ads obscuring palaces up and down the Grand Canal.

Watch this video - filmed by a tourist - of two lions attacking their trainer in front of horrified onlookers at a circus in the Ukraine.

Stay ahead of the game with some of the key trends and moments from the latest international fashion weeks.

Report shows wealthy people are least likely to care about cleanliness or to enjoy housework.

Since it opened in 1872, Hastings Pier has hosted everyone from Victorian holidaymakers to the Rolling Stones.

French counter-terrorism investigators arrested 12 people in two separate raids this morning.

A bomb has exploded outside a shopping centre in the Northern Irish city of Londonderry.

Wedged between the Far East and the Mediterranean, Turkey offers a wealth of culinary delights that are too often under-rated.

If anyone can be credited with the return of so-called 'real' clothes to the catwalk then it is the British-born designer, Phoebe Philo.

4G mobile phones are set to disrupt households' cable television - and possibly their neighbours' sets as well.

Spanish winemaker Telmo Rodriguez has seduced a Kiwi distributor with his ravishing reds.

Archaeologists have gained an unexpected benefit from global warming.

Sarkozy has back to wall as spread of al Qaeda terror group in France's ex-colonies hits region.

London insurers have radical plans to reduce seaborne hijackings.

More than three decades later, Stuttgart court hearing revisits one of Germany's most devastating political murders.

The country may have to suffer the indignity, like Greece, of asking for a bailout to keep it afloat.

A Queenstown man who went to Britain to get married was turned away at London's Heathrow airport as he didn't have the appropriate visa.

Germany will make the last of its First World War reparations payments this weekend - 92 years after the end of hostilities.