FG10 Tips: How to Carry your Handbag this Season

Ladies.... If you don't carry it will, you'll kill it! You should "hug" your bag.. Love it, and watch how this love pays back ;)

1. Give it some weight: sure, it will kill your back after about five minutes, but it needs substance to anchor it to your side.

2. Make sure it's not top heavy: no one wants to be street-style papped picking up their Oyster card and old tissues off the floor when the bag goes for a Burton.

3. Treat it like a VIP: this bag will be showing off its bottom a lot, so no parking her on the floor of the restaurant/bar/ladies. She needs her own seat so she's pristine and camera-ready at all times.

Claudia Schiffer said no to having an Hermes bag named after her

In a letter to her 17-year-old self, supermodel Claudia Schiffer reveals that her agent advised her against having an Hermès bag named after her.

If I was giving advice to my 17-year-old self, it would probably be along the lines of: 'you might want to reconsider that perm, you're going to want to destroy every photo of you in about five years from now'.

But apparently, most supermodels are far less superficial than me, and a lot more spiritual.

Polled for the spring/summer 2013 issue of Elle Collections, the genetic elite had the following cheesy McNuggets of wisdom to impart to their teenage selves:

Naomi Campbell: "Always trust your instincts" 

Amber Valletta: "Relax and truly enjoy the adventure ahead of you" 

Helena Christensen: "Feel with your heart and think with your brain. Be curious, adventurous, kind, and don't ever let anyone bring you down. Don't forget that sad moments are as important as the joyous ones" 

Niki Taylor: "Be still… and truly know what it means"

Then luckily, just as it's all getting a bit too emotional, German supermodel, Claudia Schiffer steps in with some life advice which we should all heed ladies:

Claudia Schiffer: "In five years time Hermès will ask if they can name a bag after you, as they have Kelly and Birkin. Ignore your agent and say 'Yes'"

First look: Dolce & Gabbana Alta Moda couture spring/summer 2013

The top-heavy presence of innumerable headset-wearing security guards was an unexpected add-on to proceedings at last week's Dolce & Gabbana's "Alta Moda" show in Milan. But the surprise didn't last for long. For the 80-strong audience included Arabian princesses (one in a strikingly short ostrich feather dress), African heiresses, Italian contessas, Russian oligarchs' wives and Chinese millionairesses.

Along with Monica Bellucci and five Vogue editors (including Alexandra Shulman from London and Anna Wintour from New York), they had flown in from the couture shows in Paris - "really not so great, this season", reported one guest, "with the exception of Chanel and Valentino" - to see the Italian designers' second collection of uncompromisingly lavish couture.

This Alta Moda "Milan" collection, sometimes virginal and sometimes vixenish, was much more focused that the extraordinary debut show held in Sicily last summer. And just like that first show, it was far, far more beautiful to watch than the vast majority of fashion collections I have seen.

Ex-Giorgio Armani employee sues label for alleged sexual harassment

A former employee of Giorgio Armani is filing a lawsuit against the company after claiming her then-boss "exposed herself" in front of her - but the company denies the allegations.

Laura Giulini allegedly subjected a former employee to months of sexual harassment at Giorgio Armani. She has since left the company Photo: Courtesy of The New York Daily News

Kelle Azzopardi, a former executive assistant at the label's Manhattan headquarters, claims that her then-boss, Laura Giulini, spent months harassing her. In one incident, Giuilini apparently summoned her to her office and "proceeded to take off her pants and expose herself." 

Azzopardi is suing the company over claims that she was fired last November for speaking up about her alleged sexual harassment - claims which Armani refuted in a statement today: "Giorgio Armani Corporation absolutely denies any wrongdoing in connection with Ms. Azzopardi's employment and can say without hesitation that Ms. Azzopardi was terminated for unsatisfactory performance."

Simon Cowell ZERO sense of Style

Britain might have talent, but if Simon Cowell's terrible outfit for day one of the auditions was anything to go by, it has zero style.

Simon Cowell arrives at the Welsh auditions for the ITV programme Britain's Got Talent at the Millenniumm Centre, Cardiff Photo: PA

Ever since his primetime TV debut on Pop Idol, Simon Cowell has been a steady figure of fashion ridicule, from his stratospherically high-waisted trousers, to his penchant for a moob-hugging T-shirt.

But the ensemble the millionaire music mogul touted at the first day of Britain's Got Talent auditions this week really took the sartorial biscuit.

The Eighties aviators (it was a freezing, grey day in Cardiff) and snug v-neck (a knitted, wintery take on said moob-hugger), were standard issue. But the finishing flourishes to Cowell's outfit really took the term 'fashion lowpoint' to unchartered depths.

First, the oversized Crombie-style overcoat which ostensibly gave him the look of a puffed-up nightclub bouncer, until you realise that he is about 5 ft tall, giving him instead the look of a heavy set 12-year-old playing a nightclub bouncer in Bugsy Malone.

Next, the pointy shoes/boots. With his enormous upper torso and huge head, those pointy shoes are making him wither away to nothing, giving the effect of a genie popping out of a lamp. Seriously Simon, pointy shoes are an absolute no-no in 2013. Actually, they've always been a no-no for men…

Photo: Wenn

But the piece de résistance here are his 'trendy' jeans. Bad enough that they're stonewashed, baggy and bootcut, Cowell adds insult to injury by having the hems sweep the floor!!

Philipp Plein military guns Fashion Show

Milan Men's autumn/winter 2013 fashion week saw Philipp Plein showcase a military-inspired collection, complete with guns, gasmasks and balaclavas.

A look from Philipp Plein’s autumn/winter 2013 catwalk show Photo: Vladimir Potop

Philipp Plein has been raising his sartorial profile, of late. Far from ordering his PR team to pump out the press releases, the German designer has gone full throttle into his 2013 campaigns and collections, with some controversial imagery.

First up, Plein's spring/summer 2013 campaign sourced Márcio and Marcos Patriota - the Brazilian twins who have overtly shown their brotherly love, while clad in tight briefs, on more than one occasion. For Plein's summer range, Terry Richardson captured the duo locked in a lustful, suit-bedecked embrace, mere metres away from a glam Poppy Delevingne and transexual model Lea T.

Philipp Plein's spring/summer 2013 campaign featuring models Marcio and Marcos Patriota, Lea T and Poppy Delevingne.

Milan men's autumn/winter 2013 fashion week then saw the designer spark shock and Twitter frenzy as he showcased a collection of gun-wielding models, with war-painted cheeks and capitalised red-inked slogans on their bare torsos. Though the statements 'ONLY KILL FOR REAL LOVE' and 'LIFE'S A GAME AND IT'S NOT FAIR' might stand as morally ambiguous - or teen angst ridden - the machine gun, balaclava and gas mask accessories left little scope for viewers to see the collection as merely high fashion.

Looks from Philipp Plein's autumn/winter 2013 catwalk show. PHOTOS: Vladimir Potop

Stealing the 'activist' press from Vivienne Westwood, who presented her collection in Milan the day before, Plein took his bow in a khaki get-up with dog tag and military boots.

Rihanna will Launch her River Island Collection

Rihanna will launch her River Island collection with a show at London Fashion Week in February.

Photo - Rex Features

 Her hotly anticipated debut SS/13 collection includes both clothing and accessories and will go on sale in River Island stores and online on Tuesday 5 March. It will also be stocked exclusively in the United States and Japan at Opening Ceremony stores. 

Speaking about her upcoming London Fashion week debut, to be held on Saturday 16 February. Rihanna explained: 'Launching at London Fashion Week is a dream come true for me. I have wanted to design my own collection for a long time and to present my collection for River Island alongside all of the other great design talent at LFW is a real privilege. I can’t wait to see the reaction from my fans and the fashion press!'