A bold Aztec print featured heavily throughout Stolen Girlfriends Club's show at Australian Fashion Week, as did diamante encrusted bandannas...

Flats are bad, stilettos are worse. Is there a shoe that will keep the podiatrist happy? Michelle Coursey does some research.

Viva's Zoe Walker blogs from Australian Fashion Week in Sydney...

They met "May-oris" wearing "butt flaps", posed with "horny beasts", and were confused about their geography.

Handbags, sweaters and dresses were flying as hundreds of shopaholics fought their way into the opening of New Zealand's first Topshop outlet yesterday.

World have collaborated with the Pashmina Environment and Community Trust to present a range of luxury pashminas.

Pick a palette like a true professional

A family-run skincare company claims it is being bullied by a larger rival over its logo, which the rival claims is a rip-off of its own.

Take the mystery out of makeup matching, writes Janetta Mackay.

Karen Elson is famous for modelling for designers from Gaultier to Chanel, gracing the cover of Vogue.

Australian Fashion Week starts next week and some of our top designers will be there to showcase their goods. Viva looks at what else will be hot and happening on the runway this year.

Fed up with vacuous celebrity scents, perfumer Geza Schoen is teaming up with beautiful minds to inspire his new fragrances.

Gus and Irene Fisher have won the fifth annual Arts Foundation award for patronage.

Trend forecaster Li Edelkoort knows what we are going to wear, eat and drive before we have even thought about it.

Jean-Paul Gaultier's Classique fragrance is given a makeover.

John Key wouldn't get into some shopping centres in his latest outfit, but the Prime Minister decided a hooded sweatshirt was what he needed at Gallipoli on Anzac Day.

Rachel Hunter loves life, Alison Mau is easygoing and John Campbell is understanding - at least, that's what their eyebrows tell us.

A pregnant Bernice Mene wears nothing but a hibiscus and a smile on the cover of this week's New Zealand Woman's Weekly.

As sure as rock stars marry models, their offspring grow up to star in celebrity advertising campaigns.

No matter which look you choose this school ball season, have fun.

Smoky eye begone, try a new look for ball night, writes Janetta Mackay.

Getting your beauty look for less is a great way of having more to spend on your dress, writes Janetta Mackay.

Auckland designer Amy Clarke focuses on what girls want to wear and says the best source for ideas is all around us.

Boutique owner Sheldon Edwards' wardrobe expresses his personality.

New approaches and age-old therapies offer much to explore, writes Janetta Mackay.

Australian Fashion Week is almost upon us - Zoe Walker reports on the New Zealanders who will be showing...

Jeans can be super flattering or show off everything you dislike about your shape. Here's Donna Thornton's guide to buying the perfect pair.

The days of there being anything unusual about men buying, or filching, beauty products or heading off for specialised treatments are long gone.