Stacey Duguid has led a life most girls would die for. After stints at Paul Smith, Giorgio Armani and Prada, Stacey was asked by Elle’s editor Lorraine Candy to join her favourite magazine, and now proudly takes her place as Executive Fashion Editor at Elle. Having met – and worked with – some of the most prestigious people in fashion, she doesn’t...

Designer shoe label Jimmy Choo has signed an agreement with Inter Parfums SA to licence their first fragrance.

No, no, Paul Smith himself isn’t rubbish he’s actually quite clever. But he is turning his artistic hand to help solve the issue of rubbish. I wonder if designers ever get to a point and they think “what can I do next?” or perhaps he has always planned to create a dustbin. Either way, it is of course the quirkest and cleverest bin created. In an attempt...

Remember when Paul Smith showed us he had a sense of humour with the release of his Credit Crunch tote? Well now it seems Smith is showing us a softer side, turning his attention to a worthier cause than say, somewhere safe to stash our cash. War Child is the children’s charity that recently released War Child Heroes, the charity music album featuring the likes...

We know we probably shouldn’t poke fun at the credit crunch, but it seems us fashion lovers are in a delightfully ignorant little place called denial. I certainly am anyway. What’s this? We need to spend our way out of this financial crisis? Well OK then, if you insist.

If you’re a regular to the site, then you’ll know that we do like ourselves a bit of Mika and we’re not the only ones. According to the metro fashion designer Paul Smith is fond of him too and has signed the curly haired singer to front his spring/summer ad campaign scheduled to launch on the 1st of February, for a six figure sum. Can’t wait! [Image:Flickr]