CULTURE

Luxury brand Chanel has officially confirmed British model, Alice Dellal as the new face of its Boy Chanel handbag collection.

A long-lost painting by English Victorian era painter, William Powell Frith has set new world records after being sold for £505,250 at a London auction.

At the 2011 Ein Herz fur Kinder (A Heart for Children) ceremony in Berlin, Germany, Princess Charlene of Monaco was presented with the prestigious Golden Heart Award for helping poor and handicapped children to swim in her native South Africa.

The family members of Hermes has announced the establishment of a holding company H51 having 50.2 percent controlling power over the French luxury group. This new move by the company is aimed to prevent any kind of hostile takeover by fashion giant LVMH.

Luxury lingerie brand, Victoria's Secret has responded to recent child labor allegations linking them to illegal use of child labor in the Burkina Faso fields.

The tiny unpublished manuscript from Charlotte Brontë's youth has set a new record for a manuscript by the author and for a literary work by any of the Bronte sisters.

The author of Steve Jobs' biography has announced that the book may be added to in the future and that the current edition is "not the final draft".

When US Rapper Drake sang the words "Tat my name on you so I know it's real" on his song "Free Spirit" unbeknown to him one dedicated female fan took him very seriously and did just that.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has admitted he cried when he discoverd that the late Steve Jobs had tricked him into designing a game for which Jobs received a majority of the profit.

The 1976 contract that established Apple as a corporate company sold at auction on Tuesday for $1.59 million (£1.03m), some ten times high than its estimate.

Nineteenth Century Mystery Objects

The British Fashion Council has announced the names of the next NEWGEN scholarship recipients, regarded as London's emerging fashion design talents.

The winners of the Travel Photographer of the Year award 2001 have been named (Slideshow)

John Kinsella, visionary Australian poet and novelist, nominated for his work "Armour," has joined British poet Alice Oswald in withdrawing from the T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist in protest of its sponsorship by a hedge fund firm.

The winner of the 19th annual Literary Review’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award has taken the dubious honour in good humour.

German fashion designer and creative director of Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld launched an India-themed luxury show during the Metiers D'Art Show for Chanel fashion house in Paris on Tuesday. Since 2003, the show has been paying homage to Chanel workshops with high-end couture collections.

According to the book, the two-piece swimsuit takes its name from the Pacific atoll in the Marshall Islands which was the site of 23 nuclear weapons tests between 1946 and 1958. The bikini came out a few days after the first test and was said to be "split like the atom”.

American author David Guterson won the 19th Bad Sex in Fiction Award for his novel "Ed King."

Murakami and King are among 12 authors shortlisted for having written the worst sex scene of the year.

A 'lost' Jane Austen portrait has been uncovered by biographer Paula Byrne, revealing a previously unseen view of the writer.

A pair of special evening shoes designed for the late Princess Soraya of Iran in 1962 was sold at a recent Paris auction to renowned French shoemaker Roger Vivier.

J.K. Rowling is one of the top five self-made female billionaires in the world, according to Forbes magazine. The Harry Potter author has fascinated children and young teens with her magic spell-laced writing ever since she started working on the stories of the bespectacled wizard boy.

Chantelle Taylor, a woman medic, killed an enemy fighter in combat in Afghanistan.

Vintage couture gowns and designer accessories are the highlights of an auction to be held at Christie's in South Kensington, on Dec. 1.

The tomb of acclaimed writer Oscar Wilde was unveiled Wednesday to mark the anniversary of his death in 1900. The stonework of the tomb had suffered damage due to well-wishes planting kisses on its surface.

A set of previously unseen Pablo Picasso etchings worth £1 million have been donated to the British Museum in London.

A rare cache of photographs of the tragic Romanov family are set to go under the hammer.

With an estimated value of £20,000, the Amy Winehouse chiffon dress with a red belt was designed by Thai-based Disaya Sorakraikitikul.

The younger sister of the Duchess of Cambridge was seen smiling and exchanging mischievous grins with a man during the final of the ATP World Tour tennis tournament at the O2 in London.