Making wine without chemicals and other processing techniques is slowly catching on here.

Tongan rugby star Finau Maka has been cleared of allegations that he had "enslaved" an illegal migrant at his Toulouse home.

There are a handful of NZ bands in New York for the CMJ Music Marathon, but that's not our only international presence by a long shot.

Take a flick though our gallery of NZ bands around the world.

While we ponder what to buy this season, designers in Europe are showing what will be hot for summer in 2012.

L'Oreal is considering a bid of US$44 ($58.16) a share for Avon, the UK's Daily Mail reported.

Sometimes the simplest of garments brings out a display of virtuosity in designers more effectively than anything more obviously sensational.

The French are the experts when it comes to all aspects of culture. Julie Harries explores Auckland's Gallic connections in a quest to gain some quintessential French style and attitude.

When a champagne house can name Marie Antoinette and Marilyn Monroe as fans, you'd think the brand couldn't get any more glamorous - then they announce a collaboration with shoe designer Christian Louboutin.

Marc Jacobs has long flirted with danger and it has yet to do him much harm.

The company will make the services available on Airbus A340-500s and A380s and Boeing's 777-300ER models.

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.

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

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

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.

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