Fast-fashion retailer H&M has just announced that their next designer collaboration will be with the house of Versace. For Autumn 2011, creative director Donatella Versace will look back on the brand’s heritage – featuring leather, print and colour – and translate these elements to affordable high-street pieces.

American model and ballet dancer Karlie Kloss has been enlisted to inject some high-fashion DNA into the budget collection, and can we just say we’re impressed by how much pricier the 18-year-old beauty has managed to make the clothes appear.

Last month, we broke the news on the impending arrival of H&M’s cosmetics line, which has now been confirmed to launch across the GCC region on May 19. Various launch events have been scheduled throughout the region to celebrate the brand’s new line of trendy and affordable makeup products.

H&M has just released their Spring/Summer 2011 campaign images featuring none other than Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen.

The lookbook of H&M’s annual Fashion Against AIDS collection is out, and in its fourth year the line comes with a new twist. To further emphasize the fact the disease affects both genders, the Swedish high-street retailer is releasing an array of sporty unisex styles that will suit everyone’s personal take on fashion.

Having followed the Spring/Summer 2011 shows back in September, we had formed an almost clear image in our heads of what the mood of the next season was going to be. To say that most of the collections shown in various fashion weeks are whitewashed would be an understatement, thus we thought, “Hey, Spring is going to be all fresh and clean and neutral!” But look at the clothes at the stores now and you’ll find yourself asking where the heck all those colours came from.

This spring, H&M is proud to be working with the cult shoe label Swedish Hasbeens, to bring its wooden-soled style to the rest of the world. Available from April 20 in around 150 stores worldwide, the three styles of wooden-soled clogs, made exclusively for H&M, are inspired by the traditional Swedish styles of the ’70s. Using handcrafted methods and environmentally friendly materials, Swedish Hasbeens are…

Olay relaunches swap campaign: Two Fridays from today on January 21, Olay will be offering women in the UAE and Saudi Arabia the chance to trade in their empty moisturiser bottles in exchange for an original-sized bottle of Olay Total Effects cream. This isn’t a free-for-all event though, as specific terms and conditions apply to this promotion.

The lookbook for H&M’s Party 2010 collection has just arrived in the mail and as we pored over the photos, we just couldn’t resist picking out our favourites and adding them one by one to our Christmas shopping list. The line is very on-trend, with animal print, gold details, lace and the classic women’s blazer dominating the style DNA of the collection.

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There’s been much speculation about H&M’s latest designer collaboration. It started with the suspenseful “Who’s it going to be? I bet it’s JPG!” and moved on to the curious “I wonder what the pieces are going to look like.” Now, it’s the anxious “Oh my god, what’s the price range? I hope it’s not too expensive.”

Given that the first two questions have…