Luxury brand Chanel's choice of a Hong Kong carpark roof to launch a global-trotting art exhibition raised some eyebrows, but the location reflected Asia's growing importance to the fashion world.
As Western fashion brands look to Asia to provide cheap skilled labour, two Hong Kong-based designers are bucking the trend.
Away from the hullabaloo of the catwalk presentations of autumn-winter ready-to-wear fashion, an Anglo-Japanese couple are in Paris this week to promote their debut collection for the vintage French label Cacharel.
When young fashion designer Bill Ruterana was looking for inspiration and cheap material to make clothes in his native Rwanda, he found it sprouting under his feet.
The grandchildren of ground-breaking French fashion designer Paul Poiret on Thursday February 12th auction off dozens of items from the 1910s and 1920s that they once used to play with in the family attic.
Museums and collectors on Thursday February 12th snapped up dozens of designer items fashioned a century ago by ground-breaking French stylist Paul Poiret, the man credited with emancipating women from the corset.
A Thai fabric designer has unveiled a new line of saffron-coloured robes infused with bug repellent to keep mosquitoes from biting Buddhist monks, a company announced Wednesday, January 30th.
With only days to go before the haute couture collections for summer 2008, the workrooms of Marcelle Guillet tucked behind the Bastille opera house in Paris are a hive of activity putting the finishing touches to orders for the house's unique speciality : artificial flowers.
Feeling frumpy, style-dead, or just plain sick about shopping ? Once a service reserved to the rich and famous, more and more people nowadays are going to personal shoppers to look just right.
The days of big-brand designer domination are numbered, with fashionistas now poised to go for the different, the exceptional, and the ethical, says one of the world's leading fashion gurus.
During a weeklong visit to New York City, Rosa Costa on Monday was stocking up on cosmetics, Levi's jeans and designer sunglasses, items that she said are "much cheaper" here than in her native Spain.
Valentino, the Italian fashion house whose founder will present his last collection during couture week in Paris this month, on Wednesday, January 9th named Ferruccio Pozzoni as its new head of menswear.
Shu Uemura, a beautician who parlayed success as a Hollywood make-up artist into an international cosmetics brand under his name, has died aged 79.
Rescued from near oblivion 20 years ago by an idealist entrepreneur, the central Italian village of Solomeo is today churning out elegant cashmere sweaters proudly labelled "Made in Italy".
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - From doggy perfume to paws nail polish to a Louis XV-style dog house.
