Spanish retailer Zara tops this week’s ranking of most popular Facebook fashion brands, followed by Swedish ‘arch rival,’ H&M.

The sketch of a polar bear by Karl Lagerfeld on the invitation to his autumn-winter show for Chanel on Tuesday was already a big hint.

As a howling wind came over the sound system, screens were hoisted up to reveal gigantic ice floes, from which his models emerged enveloped in shaggy furs to keep out the Arctic cold and splashed through puddles of melted ice in knee high yeti boots.

With bouffant platinum blonde hair swept up, they snuggled into floor-sweeping snow white coats quilted like the Chanel signature handbag, with deep black fur hems, cuffs and stole collars.

French actress and star of the current Chanel Rouge Coco lipstick ads, Vanessa Paradis has been announced as the face for the brand’s new Coco Cocoon handbag campaign.

Paradis previously starred in Chanel’s commercials for the Coco fragrance in 1992 and Ligne Cambon handbags in 2004.

Former star of the Coco Cocoon ads, singer Lily Allen announced via the British Radio 1 last year that she was planning to take a time-out from music for ‘at least one or two years’ in order to pursue a fashion career.

Following her last concert for the time being, for which she joined rapper Dizzee Rascal at the London 02 Arena this past weekend, Allen plans to open a boutique called Lucy in Disguise

Shanghai Tang is the first luxury brand from China with a mission to revitalize Chinese sartorial heritage by combining Shanghainese tailoring traditions with innovative modern shapes that are easily wearable in the urban landscape today.

In 1925 Louis Vuitton created a special trunk in its iconic monogram canvas to house a portable set of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica for the traveling scholar.

A later owner adapted the rare item to a more practical purpose, turning it into the world’s most stylish portable humidor.

The trunk was refitted to house 500 cigars in removable boxes lined with seasoned Spanish cedar along with a removable humidor in burled American walnut.

Measuring 36 inches in length (overall), this exquisite humidor is priced at $27,800 and available at Pullman Gallery’s, Kingstreet store.

The Breitling for Bentley collection welcomes a new one-of-a-kind model, dedicated to the founder of the prestigious British car manufacturer.

Based on a late 19th century design from Breitling’s archives, the timepiece comprises almost 700 parts.

The 2010 vintage is a pocket-watch combining two of the most sophisticated complications in the horological repertoire.

A perpetual calendar (displaying the date, day, month, leap years and moon phases) that takes account of the quadrennial occurrence of February 29th…