Easy luxury is at the heart of a Lanvin collection but there was something almost stern in a knee-length coat tied tightly at the waist.

Let me pinpoint the moment the world first became aware of the ageless, year-zero face.

Great news for students - jeans left unwashed for a year are no dirtier than those that have been worn for a fortnight.

Isaac Hindin Miller reports from the French capital on the latest in winter menswear fashions.

In the lead-up to their appearance at the Big Day Out, Billie Rogers and Emily Littler share their style preferences with Viva.

If you want to minimise chances of a shark attack, leave your fluorescent boardshorts or yellow polka-dot bikini at home.

Isaac Hindin Miller reports from Italy's style capital on the latest in winter menswear fashions.

What do you get when you combine fashion's young in-crowd with sumptuous food and great wine in a stylish Hawkes Bay lodge? A chic alfresco party. Viva was there.

Isaac Hindin Miller reports from Italy's style capital on the latest in winter menswear fashions.

TV3 has confirmed it will produce a third series of the popular talent search New Zealand's Next Top Model.

The wealthiest man in Spain has announced his imminent retirement from fashion giant Inditex, parent company of the Zara chain.

Cooling spray-on mists are a summer godsend.

Grab your diaries for Viva's essential guide to what everyone will be talking about in 2011. Here's to an eventful year.

A NZ's Next Top Model trailer has been slammed as taking its cue from sick videos where animals are crushed by women in high heels.

It's now that shops start to push their various diet supplements, that magazines and newspapers pontificate on the new year's new you.

To most 8-year-old boys, the idea of a sartorial dilemma is whether or not to change tops after a Heinz spaghetti spillage.

Board shorts had arrived with surfing sometime in the 1960s and looked good, I had to admit, when the wearer was standing on water. But those of us decently immersed had no use for them.

A group of Auckland retailers wants to remind shoppers of the pleasures of buying in stores.

When we head to the beach, Kiwis have clear preferences on what to wear. What we put on our feet leaves us more divided.

A New Zealand makeup artist has risen to the top of her field, painting the skins of the world's most famous people, but this year she is homesick.

A 22-year-old woman in a borrowed 1960s dress has won the annual Fashions in the Field title at the Boxing Day Races at Ellerslie.

Up to 25,000 people could flock to the Boxing Day racing carnival at Ellerslie today but the horses seem a minor attraction.

All Danielle Hayes wanted for Christmas was a RipStik.

Some of the country's leading fashion boutiques are playing fast and loose with the law on replacing or refunding damaged goods.

The grandfather of Spanish fashion, 81-year-old Elio Berhanyer, has become the latest victim of the country's ailing economy.

Big Day Out songbirds Bic Runga and Kody Nielson share their style secrets and their preference for keeping things simple.

Go with the flow this summer by embracing beachy hair.