The former Spice Girl’s collection with the high street chain is likely to be a fruitful new ventureAs a twentysomething Spice Girl, Victoria Beckham proclaimed that she wanted to be “as famous as Persil automatic”. Now, as she enters her sixth decade, the pop star turned designer has eclipsed her goal.On Tuesday, her debut designer collection for the...

Celebrity fashion designer, who recruited couriers to transport bags from her native Colombia to US on commercial flights, receives 18-month sentence A leading fashion designer whose accessories were used by celebrities from Britney Spears to the cast of the Sex and the City TV series has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty in...

Most of 200-plus lots are complete looks, with some showing signs of repeated mending by late designerA taffeta ball gown with the span of a light aircraft is one of the more magnificent items to go on sale at Christie’s in June as part of an auction of the personal wardrobe of Dame Vivienne Westwood.From her 1999 Dressed to Scale collection, the gown...

In this week’s newsletter: From not-suitable-for-work catsuits to dirty denim and skorts, the get-ups at Coachella provide clues for what festivalgoers elsewhere will be wearing this year• Don’t get Fashion Statement delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereWhile British festivals are known for beer and mud, Coachella – an annual two-weekend event in the...

Scheme is part of effort to reduce ‘staggering’ quantities of textiles going to landfill or incineratorInstead of throwing stained, ripped and misshapen clothing in the bin, Britons are being asked to stick the dregs of their wardrobe in the post in a trial aimed at tackling the “staggering” quantity of textiles sent to landfill or incinerated each...

Woman Begging With Two Children, by an unknown artist, shows what appears to be a denim skirt in 17th-century ItalyThe origin of the world’s most enduringly popular fabric is in ­dispute, as a new exhibition spotlights a claim that firmly links denim with 17th-­century Italy and takes its history back 200 years.Blue denim, that all-American ­symbol...