"Once Upon a Time" celebrates the founding of the famous Parisian luxury label's first store exactly a century ago.  Starring recently married Chanel favorite Keira Knightley, the 18-minute long film was directed by the brand's creative director Karl Lagerfeld, and was unveiled as the brand showed the latest Cruise collection in Singapore on May 9. 

Italian knitwear impresario Ottavio "Tai" Missoni, whose distinctive colourful zigzag dresses became a global fashion empire, died on Thursday at his home in northern Italy at 92, his family said. Missoni co-founded the fashion brand in 1953 with his wife Rosita Jelmini and their designs have graced the rich and famous from Jackie Kennedy to the Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton. Missoni was born in the then Yugoslavia on February 11, 1921 and started out with a career in track athletics after moving to Italy.

ROME - Italian fashion company Missoni says co-founder Ottavio Missoni has died at 92. Missoni founded the iconic fashion brand of zigzagged-patterned knitwear along with his wife, Rosita, in 1953. The Missonis are a family fashion dynasty, with the couple's children and their offspring involved in expanding the brand. Sorrow struck the family earlier this year when the fashion patriarch's eldest child, company CEO Vittorio Missoni, 58, disappeared with his wife and four others while flying in a small plane during a vacation to a Venezuelan island.

Italian-owned luxury outerwear label Moncler has worked with cult Japanese brand White Mountaineering on a new capsule collection called Moncler W.   Set to debut at Tokyo's Olympic stadium on May 24 this year, the Moncler W line is a collaboration between the famous brand and up-and-coming Japanese label White Mountaineering.  Designed by young Japanese creative Yosuke Aizawa, White Mountaineering was founded in 2006 and focuses on design, utility and technology.