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.

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

Check out who's wearing what at the first of this year's big Hollywood award ceremonies.

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.

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

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.

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

A Maori design network vying for a slice of the $1.5b tourism spend projected during this year's Rugby World Cup, has struck a deal with an international retailer to pitch its product to the world stage.

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.

Insidiously, over the past decade or so, a new cult of physical perfectibility has crossed the Atlantic.

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.

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.

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

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.

A Muriwai-based company's panel mounting system is holding together an exhibit celebrating the fashion house's 125th anniversary.

Handmade bath and body company Lush will release chewable toothpaste tablets next year.

It's not called the silly season for nothing, get decked out like a Christmas tree, writes Janetta Mackay.