CNN's Alina Cho talks with designer Tommy Hilfiger about how menswear is booming.
The Fashion Star mentor says a report of feuding between the two "couldn't be further from the truth"
A triple dose of bad news sent stocks sharply lower Wednesday afternoon, with the Dow and S&P 500 posting their steepest losses in nearly a year.
Men's Wearhouse founder George Zimmer discusses his strange trip from the trunk of his car to starring in his own TV ads.
When the fashion elite gathered this spring at the Council of Fashion Designers of America awards -- the Oscars of the rag trade -- the crowd at Lincoln Center sat transfixed as they watched Vogue editor Anna Wintour present the lifetime achievement award. Only this year, the distinction went not to a legend of European couture, like Yves Saint Laurent or Christian Dior, nor to an American icon like Ralph Lauren (though those design kings have all won in the past). It went instead to Michael Kors, at 50 the youngest recipient ever.
John Malkovich is used to people circling him. Whether it's fans asking for an autograph or reporters pressing for a quote, the actor's public appearances rarely pass unnoticed.
CNN's Emily Chang reports from unlikely fashion capital, Dalian, China, exporting a new image one suit at a time.
Dayang Trands, a little-known Chinese company that began making clothing for peasants and now makes suits and separates for a slew of Western brands, is getting a lot of attention from one famous client.
Standing 6 feet 3 inches (1.9 meters) tall and with a shaved head, fashion designer Ozwald Boateng often cuts a dash as much as his tailored suits.
CNN's Monita Rajpal talks British-Ghanaian tailor Ozwald Boateng about his rise to fame and tailoring for President Obama's Ghanaian visit.
The actress strips down as she appears with costars in a revealing photo for their model drama
• Fergie and her Black Eyed Peas bandmates sat next to Bradley Cooper at the Louis Vuitton
menswear show in Paris. The Hangover hunk had just flown in
from Los Angeles but he made it to the fashion show on time, taking his seat
just before the Peas arrived. When the show ended, Cooper headed backstage,
where he chatted up Fergie and her bandmates.
In a clothing store chain's promotion tied to these recessionary times, men can buy a new suit, and - if they lose their job - get their money back and keep the suit.
Do you want to rip the clothes off your partner's body not because you're insanely attracted to him, but because you hate his style so much?
In a rare interview, model Paul Sculfor also talks boxing and Botox
Young fashion designer Ali Khan made his debut at New York Fashion Week with male models strutting down the runway in his avant-garde menswear designs.
The NBA's modern era, in terms of rules, scores and statistics, began with the advent of the 24-second clock for the 1954-55 season. Its unofficial pullback from the brink -- of irrelevancy, of bankruptcy -- started in 1979 when Magic Johnson and Larry Bird entered the troubled, tape-delayed league. Then there are those players, owners, fans and sponsors who still mark NBA time from that day in June 1984 when the Chicago Bulls drafted Michael Jordan.
He has seen the face of death, poked it in the eyes, cut its arm off, and called it ugly. We're not talking about Brendan Fraser, the 39-year-old Indianapolis-born actor, son of a Canadian tourism official, youngest of four brothers and father of three sons.
"I should be at home with my feet up," the super-busy star tells PEOPLE
The designer helped introduce the actress to her model boyfriend, Gabriel Aubry
The hottest menswear on the runways in Milan are also the warmest: extravagant, oversized, embroidered, fur-trimmed coats.
InStyle experts sorted through the season's strongest and most-wearable looks and selected five fashionable must-haves for fall.
Not long after opening its doors - in 1818, Brooks Brothers, with its traditional suits and generously cut shirts, became the de facto outfitter for the American businessman. Starting in the late 1980s, however, a series of owners - Federated, Robert Campeau, and finally Marks & Spencer - stood by as the store's core customer defected to dot-com casual and designer labels.
Quest for styleupdated: Tue Aug 14 2007 06:33:00
"Style ... you can't buy it. You've either got it or you don't". No mercy from hotel heiress Nicky Hilton -- but her advice fails to instil confidence in CNN's Richard Quest as he embarks on a "Quest for Style".
On this month's Art of Life legendary fashion designer, Tom Ford gives us unprecedented access to his life and his home.
Once known mainly for wine and sailboats, Auckland has recently undergone a style makeover. Owing to financial support from the city and a vogue for renovating historic buildings, the town is now home to a lively boutique scene.
Fortune: London callingupdated: Mon Oct 02 2006 11:40:00
The suit is silky-smooth as I slip my arm into the sleeve, the three-button jacket's gray, white, and blue windowpane pattern offset by an eye-catching canary-yellow lining. It's the last thing I ...
Fortune: Guide to Savile Rowupdated: Mon Oct 02 2006 11:12:00
From perfectly fitted bespoke to a new breed of off-the-rack options, Savile Row has something to suit every style (if not every budget). Here's a look at the players, plus a few spots to grab a pi...
Fortune: LONDON CALLINGupdated: Mon Oct 02 2006 00:01:00
THE SUIT IS SILKY-SMOOTH as I slip my arm into the sleeve, the three-button jacket's gray, white, and blue windowpane pattern offset by an eye-catching canary-yellow lining. It's the last thing I e...
The suit is silky-smooth as I slip my arm into the sleeve, the three-button jacket's gray, white, and blue windowpane pattern offset by an eye-catching canary-yellow lining.
Despite its many changes, Savile Row is still very much a street in London where some of the world's best tailors ply their trade.
In Art of Life's Personal Shopper guide this month, British designer Neil Barrett talks about his history with Italy and shares two of his favorite haunts in the country's fashion capital, Milan.
For people who make more money and drive bigger cars than anyone else in the world, American men are just a bit behind in the suit department.
Jeans, suits and pajamas were the most sought-after clothing items last year, according to market research firm NPD Group, which estimated that totaled apparel sales last year grew 4 percent to $181 billion in 2005.
Hussein Chalayanupdated: Thu Feb 02 2006 11:28:00
A genuine maverick, Hussein Chalayan burst onto the fashion scene in 1993, when he graduated from London's prestigious St. Martin's School of Art with a degree collection of decomposed garments that he had buried in his garden with iron filings.
For two decades, Ozwald Boateng, has been changing the face of classic British tailoring and now he has been honored with a gong. An officer of the Order of the British Empire -- OBE, Boateng has had a hand in getting men to dress more adventurously.
They've been making suits on London's famous Savile Row since the 18th century.
At the ripe old age of 20, Marc Ecko, erstwhile graffiti artist and seller of hand-painted T-shirts, founded his first clothing line, Ecko Unlimited, in New York City. Almost immediately, the edgy ...
In popular lore, the well-dressed man charts a steady course: the blue blazer, the gray flannel suit, a solid pair of wingtips.
Often the traveling businessman is seen as a stuffy suited executive with traditional tastes and habits. But another type of road warrior is now checking in: the metrosexual male.
Fortune: Beware the Mandalupdated: Mon Jul 21 2003 00:01:00
In the early days of men's footwear, there was the Sandal. The style, as Gordon Thompson, creative director at Cole Haan, points out, has "been around since Jesus." While most A.D. versions (the fl...
Fortune: Suitable Stocksupdated: Mon Mar 18 2002 00:01:00
Just as the business world was getting comfortable in golf shirts and khakis, the fickle fashion tide is turning once again. This time it's back to those formal crisp collars and worsted-wool getup...
Money Magazine: Brothers in Armaniupdated: Mon Oct 01 2001 00:01:00
Deals such as Comcast's bid for AT&T's cable business and EchoStar's offer for DirecTV have been grabbing all the M&A headlines lately, but a merger with far more important consequences on Wall Str...
Fortune: Meet John Varvatosupdated: Mon Nov 27 2000 00:01:00
Just because you've never heard of men's wear designer John Varvatos doesn't mean you've never worn his clothes. The newest old name in the industry, Varvatos (pronounced like Barbados, but nowhere...
As rush hour descended on New York one evening in the early 1950s, Israel Myers, a Baltimore raincoat manufacturer, hurried to Penn Station to catch his train home. In his pocket, a crumpled napkin...
"Do not touch my tie!" snaps Kiton's normally charming founder, Ciro Paone, slapping away our photographer's hand. "You can make a mannequin look perfect, but not a real man--you must leave him the...
One of the dullest stops on a fashion editor's calendar is a men's wear trade show known as MAGIC, the Men's Apparel Guild in California. Somehow, balding men hawking pleated khakis and argyle sock...
Ralph Lauren had a problem. When he was preparing his Purple Label suit line, he wanted to offer English-looking suits that actually were English. But England's standing as a men's wear mecca stems...
Housed on the top floor of Paul Smith's newest store in London is a made-to-measure suit service. This is notable not only because young men from the City of London can now get suits made with the ...
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...
It's not surprising that a city that regards T-shirts and sneakers with the same suspicion as sleeping late on a weekday should be home to some of the world's finest tailors. And though many of Hon...
On a brilliantly sunny summer afternoon, the kind of day people dream about to get them through the dreary frigid winter, we're in a Manhattan office building trying to figure out where Ralph Laure...
Looking for a great price on a top-quality men's suit? Easy: Newspapers are awash in sale ads that ballyhoo 60%, 70%--hey, for you, 75%--reductions. Discount stores tout low prices for high-price d...
MOST multibillion-dollar corporations can be accused of any number of management failings. Being too entrepreneurial is rarely one of them. Which is part of what makes the story of the Limited, the...
AND NOW the fashion report on men's suits for fall. It's arrivederci Milano and three cheers for the home team. ''The Italian extended-shoulder look is on its way out,'' says Chrys Fisher, CEO of O...
Fortune: THE MEANING OF CAPSupdated: Mon Jun 14 1993 00:01:00
Why do grown men wear baseball caps? The sociology is complicated -- sort of like men themselves. They know they're too old to be mistaken for sluggers like Barry Bonds or Jose Canseco, who wear su...
GOOD MORNING. What do we have for me to look at today?'' Linda Joy Wachner, the chief executive of Warnaco, breezes through the small ''stitch room'' on the 12th floor of her headquarters at 90 Par...
Money Magazine: BUTTON OF THE YEAR updated: Mon Jan 01 1990 00:01:00
The November article ''Store of the Year,'' about Barneys New York, was fascinating. But I was shocked to see that Barneys had allowed MONEY senior editor Kevin S. McKean to commit a serious faux p...
A sameness has invaded the world of fashionable department stores, from the % pesky people spritzing perfume in the aisles to the racks of lookalike clothes to the indifferent sales help. But shopp...
Fortune: PEOPLE TO WATCHupdated: Mon Feb 04 1985 00:01:00
Edwin P. Hoffman He earned a doctorate in molecular biophysics, but Hoffman, 42, decided to pursue the intricacies of banking rather than the laws of nature. He has risen rapidly since joining Citi...
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