It is well known that for any bounded Lipschitz graph domain Ω ⊂ R d , r ≥ 1 and 1 ≤ p ≤ ∞ there exist constants C 1 (d, r ) , C 2 (Ω , d, r, p) > 0 such that for any function f ∈ L p (Ω ) and t > 0where ω r ( f, ·) p is the modulus of smoothness and K r ( f, ·) p is the K -functional, both of order r . As can be seen, the right hand side inequality depends on the geometry of the domain. One of our main results is that there exists an absolute constant C 3 (d, r, p) such that for any convex domain Ω ⊂ R d and all functions f ∈ L p (Ω ), 1 ≤ p ≤ ∞,For bounded convex domains, the above estimate can be improved for 'large' values of t K r f, t r p ≤ C 4 (d, r, p) 1 − t r diam (Ω ) r µ (Ω , t) −(r −1+1/ p) + 1 ω r ( f, t) p , 0 < t ≤ diam (Ω ) .