Italian fashion group Gucci has won a suit against a Chinese shoe maker that counterfeited the exclusive "GG" logo in its footwear, state media said Tuesday.

Dazzling jewellery from the collection of Greek shipping heiress Christina Onassis is to go under the hammer in London on June 11, auction house Christie's told AFP on Friday, April 18th.

China became the world's biggest producer of gold last year, overtaking South Africa which held top spot for 100 years, the independent precious metals consultancy GFMS said here on Wednesday.

Luxury watch brand Vacheron Constantin said Wednesday April 10th it had turned to security features more commonly used in bank notes and passports in its fight against counterfeiting.

Besides the hefty five or even six-digit price tags, the prominent presence of mobile phone brand Vertu at the world's largest watch show in Basel seemed somewhat out of place.

Time waits for no man, or woman -- even a queen, as Marie-Antoinette found to her cost amid the tumult of the French Revolution in the late eighteenth century.

Swedish cheap'n chic clothing chain H&M said on Thursday the Japanese founder of the Comme des Garcons fashion house, Rei Kawakubo, would guest design its autumn collection.

In the 1980s, Diep Bach Duong worked for a pittance as a bureaucrat in communist Vietnam. Now, she cruises around in a new Rolls-Royce and carries a Louis Vuitton handbag.

International watchmakers opened their annual showcase fair here on Wednesday with a warning that the industry could be undermined "at any time" by turmoil on financial markets.

Nicolas Hayek, chairman of the world's largest watch-maker Swatch told a newspaper on Monday, March 31th that he was considering taking the group private.

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, French President Nicolas Sarkozy's new wife, dominated the British press on Thursday, drawing comparisons to Princess Diana and Jackie Kennedy.

Top jewellers De Beers and Swarovski on Thursday opened flagship stores in Tokyo in a bid to lure customers in the highly lucrative but increasingly saturated Japanese luxury market.

Directors and staff at the German fashion retailer Hugo Boss have reached an agreement that guarantees jobs and German work sites, the private equity group that owns Hugo Boss said Wednesday March 19th.

German fashion retailer Hugo Boss said Tuesday March 18th that the head of its supervisory board would leave, with the news coming just a few weeks after the departure of its managing board president.

Louis Vuitton has won a lawsuit against a Chinese hotel who leased space to a shop selling counterfeit products using the French luxury producer's logo, state media reported Tuesday March 18th.