Model-turned-first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, actress Catherine Deneuve and the Shah of Iran's widow were among mourners Thursday at the funeral of legendary designer Yves Saint Laurent.
Thousands gather to bid adieu to the legendary designer
A funeral will be held Thursday for international fashion icon Yves Saint Laurent, who died Sunday night at his home in Paris, his longtime friend and business associate Pierre Berge told CNN Monday.
The 71-year-old fashion powerhouse passed after a long illness in Paris
Arguably the most influential and copied fashion designer of his generation, he always knew how to reflect the moment, to capture the spirit of the present
One of the world's greatest fashion designers, Yohji Yamamoto has helped blaze a trail for Asia over the last three decades.
Much has been made of people who live beyond their means. When you see a neighbor bring home a fancy new car, you can't help but wonder how she can afford it on her salary. However, you can't assume you know how much she (or anybody) makes unless you've seen her tax returns.
The designer helped introduce the actress to her model boyfriend, Gabriel Aubry
"I'm available for bookings if anyone wants me for a wedding or a bar mitzvah," she jokes
Dear FSB: I recently purchased a design/drawing from an illustrator to use as a design for my T-shirt. Since I paid for the drawing and it was originally my idea, do I own all rights to the design? Can I even copyright it?
Model-turned-first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, actress Catherine Deneuve and the Shah of Iran's widow were among mourners Thursday at the funeral of legendary designer Yves Saint Laurent.
Thousands gather to bid adieu to the legendary designer
A funeral will be held Thursday for international fashion icon Yves Saint Laurent, who died Sunday night at his home in Paris, his longtime friend and business associate Pierre Berge told CNN Monday.
The 71-year-old fashion powerhouse passed after a long illness in Paris
Arguably the most influential and copied fashion designer of his generation, he always knew how to reflect the moment, to capture the spirit of the present
One of the world's greatest fashion designers, Yohji Yamamoto has helped blaze a trail for Asia over the last three decades.
Much has been made of people who live beyond their means. When you see a neighbor bring home a fancy new car, you can't help but wonder how she can afford it on her salary. However, you can't assume you know how much she (or anybody) makes unless you've seen her tax returns.
The designer helped introduce the actress to her model boyfriend, Gabriel Aubry
"I'm available for bookings if anyone wants me for a wedding or a bar mitzvah," she jokes
Dear FSB: I recently purchased a design/drawing from an illustrator to use as a design for my T-shirt. Since I paid for the drawing and it was originally my idea, do I own all rights to the design? Can I even copyright it?
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen can now add author to their growing list of professions.
She's been making headlines lately for what she hasn't been wearing. But on Thursday, Lindsay Lohan turned heads in a Dolce & Gabbana dress at the fashion house's runway show in Italy. There as part of Milan Fashion Week, Lohan posed up a storm for photographers. Of course, the actress has been dabbling in high-fashion lately, especially after a recent New York magazine nude pictorial spread which recreated Marilyn Monroe's famous 1962 shoot.
Designers played it safe at New York Fashion Week, with simple, easy pieces. But achieving simplicity in fashion is one of the toughest things to do
It's only fitting, since he thinks his customer "tends to be a dreamer with her head in the clouds," that Peter Som would love to try skydiving. "I'm scared of heights really. But facing my fears is something I'm into these days," says the designer. And these days, Som has every reason for that face to be a happy one.
Ellen Pompeo had haute couture on her mind when she hit Paris Fashion Week – but she couldn't help gushing about wedded bliss with Chris Ivery.
Fashion designer Stella McCartney, 36, has given birth to her third child, a son, Beckett Robert Lee, PEOPLE has confirmed.
Three months after Robert Polet took over as chief executive of Gucci Group in July 2004, he gave his new colleagues a glimpse of the self-confidence and single-mindedness that landed him the job in the first place - and that have contributed to the company's stellar performance ever since.
Liz Claiborne is in advanced discussions with the fashion designer John Bartlett, part of a broader push to revitalize its namesake brand, Fortune has learned.
Diesel has cultivated an edgy image by selling pricey jeans and other apparel to urban hipsters, but when it came to the web, the company, like so many fashion brands, was behind the curve.
Thinking of getting Mom a new Fendi bag for the holidays -- or celebrating New Year's with Veuve Cliquot champagne? You might want to start buying now.
Karl Lagerfeld lamented the decision by Valentino to retire next year, saying Wednesday that he feared the 75-year-old Italian would find life after fashion a bore
It's the first day of fashion week in Milan, and at the neo-classical Palazzo Serbelloni, Burberry is about to show its 2008 collection. Backstage, designer Christopher Bailey is overseeing the models as they prepare to strut down the runway in a succession of outfits with a mock military look, including outsized Celtic warrior motifs on buttons and belts. This is his big day.
The eternal enfant terrible of fashion photography, Oliviero Toscani, has roiled the fashion world with a revealing ad
It's Fashion Week season. Last week was New York Fashion Week, and this coming week it's London's turn, before the traveling bandwagon of models, designers and celebrities visit Milan and Paris.
In February 2007, Robert Duffy sensed something was wrong with his longtime business partner, the fashion designer Marc Jacobs. "Something was going on in his personal life, but I wasn't 100% sure he was back on drugs," says Duffy, who was overwhelmed with work at the time and hoped his intuition was off.
When pop princess Ashlee Simpson was first photographed last summer post-nose job, it wasn't just her plastic surgery that garnered mass attention. Sales of the dress she was wearing in the photo skyrocketed.
The next time you're waiting for your bags to arrive at O'Hare, ponder this: In Milan there's a leather goods store called Valextra, just down the road from the famed La Scala opera house, whose signature product is a line of exquisite luggage quite unsuited to modern life.
Alessandra Facchinetti, a former designer of Gucci, will replace the legendary couturier as creative director of the Valentino women's collections
When Robert Polet jumped from Unilever's ice cream and frozen-foods division to the top of the Gucci Group in 2004, Women's Wear Daily quipped, "What do frozen fish and ice cream have to do with $8,000 crocodile handbags?"
Rome is buzzing with the weekend-long celebrations of designer Valentino Garavani's 45th anniversary.
Haute couturiers get a lot of mileage out of wedding dresses, especially Christian Lacroix. The designer celebrated his 20th year in business Tuesday with a concise and painterly collection that included a patchworked bridal dress that harkened back to Lacroix's rustic Southern roots and a short embroidered coat inspired by Watteau. Although the palette was predominantly black, Lacroix wowed the crowd with some pretty amazing color combinations -- the kind that only he can get away with in an haute couture collection. My favorite was a long draped chiffon dress shaded in plum, praline, and lime and topped off by violet fur sleeves. Another Lacroix signature -- the mixing of rough and fine materials -- appeared early on in the show in the form of an oxblood red dyed fox and goatskin coat worn over a slinky black cocktail dress. He definitely deserved the standing ovation.Feathers seem to have replaced fur on most couture runways here this week. At a press conference this morning, Giorgio Armani explained t
The soggy weather at the fall 2007 haute couture collections hasn't dampened fashion inspiration
Designer Liz Claiborne, whose name has adorned career-women's fashions since the 1970s, has died, her company announced Wednesday. She was 78.
Apparel designer Liz Claiborne, who founded a namesake sportswear label for women that grew into a multibillion-dollar global empire, has died at age 78, the company said Wednesday.
London Fashion Week got under way on Monday with the ongoing debate over ultra-skinny models continuing to distract from the styles on the catwalk.
A New York City Council member Thursday proposed pushing sponsors to ban abnormally thin models from walking New York Fashion Week's runways.
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The world's first ban on overly thin models at a top-level fashion show in Madrid has caused outrage among modeling agencies and raised the prospect of restrictions at other venues.
If fate had taken a different course, it may have been Dr Giorgio Armani, and not the fashion designer extraordinaire he became.
We're not the only ones excited that Bravo's Emmy-nominated "Project Runway" is back for its third season. On the widely popular reality TV show, 15 up-and-coming designers compete in weekly challenges for the chance to show their collections at New York's Fall Fashion Week.
The Scene catches up with the godfather of Italian style, Giorgio Armani, in Milan and hears about his lifetime in fashion.
Synonymous with Italian style, Giorgio Armani is one of the most successful and influential designers of all time, and a dominating presence in the fashion industry for the best part of three decades.
Alberta Ferretti made her first foray into fashion at an early age, opening a small store in her home town of Cattolica.
Every once in a while I have to pinch myself to remind myself that yes, I am indeed on assignment and working. This month, I have had to do just that.
She's the queen of Britain's fashion industry and an original punk rebel, but what's Vivienne Westwood really like?
Just about every fashion designer starts small. Before Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, and Ralph Lauren became eponymous empires, they were entrepreneurs, struggling to get their designs se...
If you're a big couch potato, this is a monumental week.
As New York winds down its bi-annual turn as the world's fashion capital, fashion designers, magazine editors, apparel industry insiders and, of course, celebrities, depart from the billowing white tents in Manhattan's Bryant Park with a look ahead to the fashion trends for fall.
Like most London fashion weeks, British veteran designer Julien Macdonald stood out on the catwalk this year, but he also shared the limelight with rising star and compatriot Giles Deacon.
Last year Jeff Schwartz, a 46-year-old technology consultant, spotted a pair of Puma shoes designed by Neil Barrett, Prada's former design chief. They were selling for $400 at a Seattle boutique, b...
Between selling Salomon, the ski-equipment maker, launching a line of women's gear designed by Stella McCartney, and blanketing China with Adidas shops, it's been a busy year for globetrotting Adid...
Saks Inc., target of an ongoing SEC probe of its accounting, was sued by the former licensee for the designer label Oscar de la Renta for withholding payments the supplier claims are due, a news report said Wednesday.
IN THE REALITY-TV-SPEAK of supermodel Heidi Klum, "You're either in, or you're out." When Jay McCarroll was dubbed "In" on the finale of Bravo's sleeper hit Project Runway, he walked away with a ma...
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Italian fashion house Gucci has shaken up its design team again, just two seasons after star designer Tom Ford left, handing the brand-building womenswear pen to its accessories stylist Frida Giannini.
More than 30 years since designing the dress that has been associated with her name ever since, Diane von Furstenberg is once again producing cutting edge clothes for the catwalk.
A mix of masculine and feminine, the elegance of a decade gone by and bright colors defined the wide array of looks in the first few days of New York Fashion Week.
It's been described as a dying art, but the biggest name in fashion has just given haute couture his vote of confidence at the Paris Fashion Show.
They've been making suits on London's famous Savile Row since the 18th century.
Melania Knauss, fiancee of real estate mogul Donald Trump, will be wearing a sumptuous gown made by fashion house Christian Dior when she walks down the aisle this weekend.
Last April, after a highly publicized power struggle over creative control at Gucci, Tom Ford, the company's creative director, left the Milan fashion house and headed to Hollywood. Ford, 43, who i...
The center of the fashion universe these days just might be the bar at the Bulgari Hotel, located steps away from Milan's most glamorous retailing district.
One day in September--no one knows exactly when--1,500 pairs of candy-colored sneakers, adorned with dollar signs and packaged in faux ice-cream cartons, will land in high-end shoe emporiums nation...
Zhao Xinyu still swoons when she remembers her first Prada. It was 1990. After years as a soprano with the Harbin Opera, she had moved to Beijing and reinvented herself as a pop singer. But with th...
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On the night before Louis Vuitton opened its new boutique in Tokyo this month, chairman Yves Carcelle guided visitors on a giddy tour. Past customers already queuing at the front door, past the dan...
'Am I volatile?" Patrizio Bertelli asks, getting up from a table at Prada's Milan headquarters to adjust the air conditioning and bawl out construction workers drilling in the office next door. Sit...
Like some sort of dark daffodil, camouflage is popping up all over. But even when coming from a chichi fashion house--and many have surrendered to the trend--it gives off a welcome whiff of insurge...
If you want to impress the CEO of a European fashion house, tell him (and they are mostly hims) that you're going to meet Patrizio Bertelli, the CEO of Prada. Eyebrows climb skyward, eyes widen, mo...
Senior year was hell for fashion's new wunderkind, Sandy Dalal. He was trying to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania in three years, finish his latest men's wear collection in time for the...
As if designer clothes, jewelry, and perfume weren't enough, now we've got couture plants. Karl Lagerfeld of Chanel has weighed in with his idea of what Coco Chanel--who spent the last half of her ...
Asia's economic troubles have caused the world's biggest market for luxury goods to all but fall off the map. American and European makers of expensive liqueurs, haute couture, and other pricey ite...
It's hard to resist the temptation to buy when you see the fancy fakes sidewalk vendors display. But pick the wrong thing, and you will look like a phony--or a fool--to those who know the genuine a...
Don't look to Europe to find the hottest new fashion designers. They're here: Asian Americans are stealing the show, and their ranks are growing faster than cotton prices.
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Ever since 1969, when Christian Dior put his moniker on a pair of $45 eyeglass frames, designer eyewear has proliferated, growing from 5% in the mid-'80s to an eye-popping 40% of the $4.6 billion f...
FRIENDS SAY Bernard Arnault is deeply in love with luxury goods. The 39-year- old French entrepreneur disputes that. ''You fall in love for inexplicable reasons,'' he says. ''This is completely rat...
AN ELEGANT STRATEGY BASED ON CLASSY BRANDS One of the new band of tough, U.S.-style European managers, Bernard Arnault, 39, revived a bankrupt textile company, then built a luxury-goods empire that...
Like politics, business can make strange bedfellows. Take these: the Chinese government, Japan's most successful fashion designer, and a Puerto Rican factory. They are the elements that Richard Mil...
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