India's faction-ridden and highly competitive fashion industry is getting ready for four rival fashion weeks this season to showcase the country's talent, designers say.
London Fashion Week got under way Sunday with seasoned Irish designer Paul Costelloe presenting his spring-summer 2009 collection, but the event faces a battle for survival.
Imaginative styles evoking journeys to far-off lands dominated New York fashion shows this week, with experts saying the spring lines reflect consumers' economic woes and desire to escape uncertainty.
The final six contestants on U.S. television's "Project Runway" showed their design collections on Friday, hoping to become the hit show's winner and someday join the professionals on the fashion show circuit.
One-piece romper suits that combine shorts with a shirt are mostly worn by infants, but that may be about to change.
Fashion trends come and go, but "green" is here to stay, say designers and sponsors at New York's fashion shows this week.
Prim and proper met stunning and sexy for the new Marc Jacobs extravaganza at the highlight of New York's Fashion Week.
French fashion house Lacoste presented its 2009 spring collection aimed at the well-heeled young as Tropical Storm Hanna doused the city with heavy rain.
With casual sweaters and sharp suits in shades of black, white and grey, Ji Wenbo became the first Chinese designer to showcase a collection at Japan's Fashion Week in a bid to woo customers in fashion-savvy Tokyo.
From avant-garde couture to wispy romantic ready-to-wear, South Africa's growing viability as a new fashion frontier was paraded on the ramps at Cape Town's Fashion Week this weekend.
The British Fashion Council, which runs London Fashion Week, said Wednesday August 13th it has ditched a plan to demand health certificates proving models do not have anorexia.
The adjectives hip, chic and fashionable are not usually used when speaking of Sears, an American retailer better known for selling practical items like power tools and appliances, sturdy jeans and boxy shirts.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc presented a colorful, casual line of youthful looks for kids and teens on Saturday at a fashion show that previewed the mass-market chain's new low-cost offerings for back to school.
Cocoa runs in the family of Ivorian fashion designer Felicite Mai. It was her father, a tailor-turned-cocoa planter, who gave her first sewing machine, a model dating back to 1952.
Ma Ke, the first Chinese designer to be invited to show in haute couture week, used the opportunity to make an anti-fashion statement and stage performance art on the last day of the collections here.
