Change your shades! Here are the NEW cult Sunglasses!

Introducing Spektre, the Italian sunglasses brand the fashion pack has hailed as their new affordable favourite.

While we all expected Prada's sculpted floral shades and Linda Farrow's lens collection for The Row to be the stars of the shows, it was a range of high-shine, mirrored sunglasses spotted perched on the tip of many a front row nose, that caught the eyes.

The coveted brand in question? Spektre: A Milanese sunglasses company established in 2009. Street style favourite Viviana Volpicella, a freelance stylist from Milan, has been championing mirror lenses of purple and blue, and chic Italians Eleonora Carisi and Giovanna Battaglia have also been parading the show grounds in high-vis pairs. For a label that maintains "we don't care about the market, we do what we like" Spektre have certainly caught the eye of the right ladies.

Giorgio Armani autumn/winter 2013 in pictures

FG10 readers.. Checkout the stunning Giorgio Armani AW 2013 collection.. What's your favorite?

Milan Fashion Week AW 2013: Bottega Veneta's modest alchemy

Bottega Veneta turn modest materials into a truly beautiful collection.

Under Tomas Maier, Bottega Veneta has blossomed into luxury fashion's most adroit generator of understated high-design desirability. This company's artisinally meshed leather goods have driven a 46 per cent jump in profit during 2012 - the first year in which it notched up US$1 billion in sales. This morning Maier presented a collection that exemplified his softly spoken philosophy.

Working with modest materials - woollen flannels and felt - Maier managed to rustle up clothes that were far more compelling than the Swarovski scattered, fur swathed, decadently decorated Milan norm. Fold and drape, pleats and proportion, monochrome with the odd reddishsplash - all were masterfully deployed. High waisted 1950s Secretary jumpers in cashmere above pleated flannel skirts were teamed with smaller than usual bags in softened crocodile and lace- up high heeled boots. There was a lot of distressed seaming and expressively visible stitching as Maier used the imprint of construction as a form of introspective embellishment. Seriously beautiful stuff.

Roberto Cavalli autumn/winter 2013 in pictures

Roberto Cavalli autumn/winter 2013

Rihanna mixes high street with high fashion

Singer launches first fashion collection for River Island at London Fashion Week

London: Pop star Rihanna showed off her first fashion collection on Saturday in London, with a raunchy street-style range displayed to the sound of thumping hip-hop beats.

The Barbadian singer said it was a “dream come true” to design a line of clothes and accessories for the high street chain River Island, a range which had its worldwide first outing amid London Fashion Week and will hit the shops next month.

At the Old Sorting Office in London, the 24-year-old swapped a catwalk for a stage separated into compartments which the models moved between as hip-hop pumped out from the speakers.

The clothes on offer were street-style, with bra tops, dresses slashed to the thighs, tummy-baring tank-tops and thigh-high boots.

Rihanna came out at the end to give the designer’s traditional bow and wore a short black dress with sparking jewellery.

“I’ve wanted to design my own fashion line for a very long time,” she said beforehand. “This has been something I wanted to do ever since I started loving fashion. I got passionate about it and I just felt like every time I saw something on a rack, there was something that I would want to do to it to change it.

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.

EXCLUSIVE First Look at Lady Fozaza SS2013 Collection

Savoir Flair offers you an exclusive first look at hot Dubai-based brand Lady Fozaza’s latest collection.

Lady Fozaza SS2013 Collection

Dazzling structured blazers with major shoulder emphasis encourage a bold new silhouette – perfect for elevating any outfit to the next level. Youthful indiscretion might at times cause us to break out the credit card for flash-in-the-pan trends, but Lady Fozaza’s brilliant blazers have proven staying power. 

Click through Savoir Flair gallery for a look at Lady Fozaza’s latest offerings.

Brand to watch: Ostwald Helgason

We caught up with the design duo behind Ostwald Helgason, Susanne Ostwald and Ingvar Helgason, to find out how they captured the hearts and lenses of editors and street style photographers alike.

New York casting agent Natalie Joos wearing Ostwald Helgason at fashion week in September 2012. Photo: REX Features

In a jam-packed studio in Hackney Wick, overlooking the Olympic stadium, Susanne Ostwald is wiping up a tiny spillage from under my tea cup. "For Susie, everything has its place," her boyfriend and business partner Ingvar Helgason sniggers. "Getting things to fit in this studio is like a game of Tetris." Susanne readily admits her obsession with order. "I have a little bit of an OCD. If I get things fitting in perfectly in here, then I get 10 points!"

If all goes according to plan, Susanne's Tetris obsession will soon be a space-saving eccentricity of the past. Together the couple comprise Ostwald Helgason, a brand with a loyal following of fashion editors setting out to win them pavement exposure. Street style favourites Miroslava Duma and Tatler Russia editor-in-chief Anya Ziourova are frequently snapped in head-to-toe looks; bloggers Susie Bubble and Natalie Joos are also fans. Buyers have followed suit: their first order for New York boutique Fivestory sold out within 24 hours, and ASOS, Opening Ceremony, Browns Boutique and Moda Operandi have all put in orders.

Chanel ordered to pay 960,000 AED in counterfeiting case

Chanel has been ordered to pay the sum to their former knitwear supplier, World Tricot, who accused them of copying one of their designs.

Chanel has been ordered to pay a former knitwear supplier, World Tricot, £161,000 (€200,000) by the Paris Court of Appeal.

The ruling is the latest twist in an ongoing legal battle between the two companies.

In 2009, World Tricot attempted to sue Chanel for £3.6 million: £1.3 million for wrongful termination of the business relationship, and £2.3 million for alleged counterfeiting of a white crochet pattern. Chanel denied all accusations and the commercial court ruled in their favour ordering World Tricot to pay Chanel £161,000 euros for "public disparagement".

However, the court decided on Friday to overturn that ruling and instead ordered Chanel to pay World Tricot.

"This is the first time we have faced this type of situation, although we work with close to 400 suppliers. This very specific case is in no way a reflection of the quality of our relations with our suppliers," Bruno Pavlovsky, president of Chanel fashion told WWD .

Chanel says they will decide "shortly" whether or not to appeal the decision to the French Supreme Court.

Olivia Palermo Walks The Runway For Rio S/S 2012 Fashion Week

IT girl and fashion icon Olivia Palermo hits the runway at Rio de Janerio spring/summer 2012 fashion week. Palermo walks the Coca-cola show, strutting her stuff in 60s inspired designs, full of fringes and dolly minidress with full length sleeves.

It's about time we see Olivia on the catwalk!

Images sourced from Fashion.telegraph