Zegna

Presenting a ski jacket with solar panels sewn into the collar so you can charge your ipod while slaloming on the piste.

Mind you, at $1350 you could buy a lot of batteries instead and still get something that made you look less like a dork.

LumiTops

And I thought those see-through blouses back in the '80s were bad.

If they figure out how to stream videos on these things, I'm leaving.

Astro Fashions 1967

From the era when fashion designers needed a little lie down.

The Butt Bra

They are not kidding.

Urban Security Suit

The answer to why no one in his right mind will allow fashion designers to develop NBC suits.

NEW! Future Fashion

For the style conscious, or unconscious, we present our new Tales of Future Past section:

Future Fashion

Haute Couture

Having exhausted all the trivial issues of the day, the BBC weighs in on The Question of Our Times:

They do charity work. They want their contribution to British culture to be taken seriously. But why do people look down their noses at the fashion industry?

At a guess, it might have something to do with the industry being top heavy with a load of narcissistic, talentless frauds who have reduced the making of overpriced frocks to an irredeemable laughing stock.