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With a deal to buy the beleaguered Italian house imminent, it's unclear whether Roberto Cavalli can deliver a return in a rapidly changing fashion market.

Masculine stereotypes were well and truly challenged on Donatella’s catwalk by a killer combination of rococo decoration and hormonal teen rave culture. But even her challenge was overtaken by the speed of life.

The strength of Donatella’s new work is the way she embraces it, with love and fearlessness and the same dry wit with which she deals with all the tricky propositions in her life.

Capri chief John Idol reveals his strategy for the budding luxury group that owns Michael Kors, Versace and Jimmy Choo.

The collection brooded on the scattergun codes of modern masculinity with an orgy of quite gorgeous separates likely to hit their target.