Giorgio Armani is a quiet revolutionary, but a powerful one. This year, he celebrates the 50th anniversary of a brand whose ...

Simply sign up to the Fashion myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Bar hardcore fashion geeks and 19th-century history buffs, few have probably heard of Charles Frederick Worth.

London has long been a place where fashion’s changemakers cut their teeth, and Torishéju Dumi is one of them. The designer, ...

‘A crinoline dress with tiers of lavender silk and a lovely bonnet which had been lying in a basket for a long time,’ Mrs Harper beamed. ‘We had to sit in the back of Cuba’s Cadillac with ...

She had neither stockings nor shoes, and her hair was dishevelled, her crinoline wilted. I had buried my whole heart into her. The other doll, a Nordic blonde, was still perfect, down to the ...

June is the month of roses. It is also, traditionally, the month of weddings. The June bride! We picture her in a long white dress, crowned with a flowing veil and carrying an armful of flowers. I ...

The burn test is one of the most accurate methods for evaluating genuine silk. Take a tiny piece of thread from the saree's inner edge and burn it carefully (with the right measures). Real silk ...

Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have recently successfully bred the world’s first CRISPR-Cas9-modified spider to produce red fluorescent silk. For this work, they used a species of ...

Chennai: Silk has long been worn on the skin. Now, city scientists have found a way to make it help the skin heal too.A research team at CSIR-Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI) developed a ...

The World Silk Road Forum has announced the selection of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, as the Inspirational ...

Two volumes of 2,300-year-old silk books – the earliest known in China – arrived in Beijing from the United States in the early hours of Sunday, marking the end of their 79-year journey abroad.