The UK has topped a ranking of countries with the highest affinity for luxury handbags, while labels including Coach, Louis Vuitton and Chanel top a compilation of the most searched luxury handbag brands globally.

This first digital analysis of the luxury handbag market, dubbed World Luxury Index Handbags, has been presented by Paris-based luxury executives’ online community Luxury Society and international company Digital Luxury Group.

Sigrid Agren stars alongside male model Sam Way in Chanel’s Spring Campaign for its fine jewelry collection. Shot by photographer Dominique Isserman, the campaign highlights creations featuring the diamond in Place Vendome, Paris.

From unusual sculptural looks to geometric shapes and vintage designs, the red carpet at the 2012 Cannes film festival offered a dazzling variety of jewelry styles.

French luxury brands from Chanel to Vuitton on Wednesday launch a campaign with several European countries to fight back against the increasingly lucrative and damaging flood of counterfeit goods.

The global market for luxury fakes has exploded, fed by Asia where 85 percent of articles seized in Europe are produced and the increasing popularity of on-line shops that give the buyer a sense of anonymity and impunity.

Chanel’s Cruise collection at Versailles earlier this week didn’t disappoint in the beauty stakes, and now fashionistas will be able to recreate the Marie Antoinette-inspired aesthetic with the launch of Chanel logo beauty spot stickers.

To coincide with Chanel’s Cruise 2012-13 collection which was presented at the Chateau de Versailles, the French fashion House has unveiled the campaign images for the pre-fall 2012 collection.

Shot by Karl Lagerfeld and styled by Carine Roitfeld, the Chanel Pre-Fall 2012 ad campaign stars Russian model Daria Strokous.