Monthly Archives: February 2012

AP – Paris fashion week is rarely known for understatement, as confirmed by Portuguese designer Fatima Lopes who opened the fall-winter 2012 season with a proverbial bang at the iconic war museum Invalides that houses canons and artillery.

Reuters – Behind the scenes of New York Fashion Week, reams of legal contracts bind together designers, models, hair and make-up artists, photographers, stagehands, lighting technicians and even celebrities flaunting their clothes.

Reuters – Designers at Milan Fashion Week stitched velvet roses and gilded threads on embroidered winter fabrics seeking to lure the kinds of consumers who can still afford to splash out on luxury clothes during a period of financial austerity across Europe.

Reuters – Italian model Diana Gelsi strode straight onto the fashion catwalks of Milan from high school and now at the grand old age of 24 is already considering how she’ll spend her retirement.

It was night of nostalgia when it came to red carpet fashion for the 84th Academy Awards and the jewelry worn by the movie industry's biggest stars kept with that trend. Green, last year's most popular color, was still very much in the limelight but shared the stage with red and blue. Necklaces were more …

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Hollywood's most important night of the year is forever captured in memory and this year's Oscar hopefuls and VIPs reflected the timelessness of the event with …

AP – All it takes to be Armani stylish next winter is a pair of Bermudas.

Reuters – French fashion brand Yves Saint Laurent is parting ways with its head designer Stefano Pilati, parent group PPR said on Monday, with his replacement to be announced after his last fashion show on March 5.

AP – There were many new fashion faces on the red carpet at the 84th annual Academy Awards on Sunday night, but they brought with them a lot of old Hollywood glamour.

AP – Summertime looks are spilling onto Milan’s winter runway.