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Damir Doma gets monk-chic in slouchy show
Croatian-born designer Damir Doma went to his roots to explore the patterns of East Europe in a slouchy, texture-rich menswear collection for ...
Hermes lets clothes do the talking in classy show
Hermes has become a byword for simple, unpretentious luxury. With panache, veteran menswear designer Veronique Nichanian proved this again in a classy ...
Givenchy makes menswear combatorial
Gladiatorial combat is in the air for Givenchy's ever-creative Riccardo Tisci. For the fall-winter 2013 menswear show, the Italian designer delved ...
Joseph Beuys inspires slouchy John Galliano show
The trilby hat and short, baggy pants of German artist Joseph Beuys was the muse behind John Galliano's fall-winter 2013 show. Designer Bill Gaytten ...
South Korean designer Juun J. reverses menswear
Juun J. presented a typically oversized, multilayered fall-winter showing, in which the popular South Korean designer dabbled in what he called ...
Louis Vuitton climbs Himalayas, brings back fur
Could it be the recent death of Maurice Herzog, the first man to scale the 8,000-meter (26,500-foot) Annapurna peak, that inspired Louis Vuitton to ...
Lyon starting to believe it can beat PSG to title
After playing down their title ambitions for most of the season, Lyon's players are finally starting to believe they can challenge inconsistent Paris ...
Issey Miyake gives fashion an emergency blanket
Issey Miyake is one house with its finger firmly on the pulse of the weather forecast. During last summer's heat wave, the Franco-Japanese fashion ...
2014 Tour de France to start in Leeds, England
Leeds, Sheffield and London will host the opening stages of the 2014 Tour de France, when organizers hope the same fervor will be generated as six ...
Raf Simons in colorful ode to the dandy, geek
Raf Simons gave the dandy a colorful, 21st century makeover in his accomplished menswear show in Paris, replete with flappy collars, cravates, long ...
Germany to bring home gold stored in US, France
In what sounds like the setup for a stylish Hollywood heist movie, Germany is transferring nearly 700 tons of gold bars worth $36 billion from Paris ...
Confident Valentino in first Paris menswear show
The Valentino fashion house explored new landscapes in its first menswear show in Paris, travelling first class to London's Saville Row via a dash of ...
Its allies reluctant, France goes it alone in Mali
France's allies have offered vocal support for the country's military operation in Mali, but when it comes to sending troops or weapons, they are ...
Carven takes fashion to the office, the subway
Carven designer Guillaume Henry channeled a day in the life of the suited city businessman — on the subway and at the office — for his fall-winter ...
Peugeot workers occupy plant slated to be sold
Hundreds of Peugeot Citroen workers occupied a French factory scheduled to be sold off, largely shutting down production on Wednesday in a protest ...
France girds for new threats amid Mali operation
France's military campaign to stop advancing Islamist insurgents in Mali has been met with a volley of threats from the extremists, feeding fears that ...
Deschamps steadily making France competitive again
France coach Didier Deschamps has been successful wherever he's played and coached. In attempting to turn the national team back into the force it ...
Report: Turkey strikes Kurd rebel targets in Iraq
Turkish jets have struck suspected Kurdish rebel targets in a cross-border raid in northern Iraq, Turkish and Kurdish media reported Tuesday, even as ...
No easy exit for French fighting terror in Mali
France, breaking its own rules with a surprise military intervention in Mali, raises the specter of an African quagmire in a new theater of the West's ...
Gay marriage protest converges on Eiffel Tower
Holding aloft ancient flags and young children, hundreds of thousands of people converged Sunday on the Eiffel Tower to protest the French president's ...
Beaches, bombs and gangsters _ Corsica's dilemma
The bombs exploded across hundreds of miles of Corsican coastline, gutting two dozen villas nearly simultaneously on some of Europe's most beautiful ...
Hundreds of French troops drive back Mali rebels
The battle to retake Mali's north from the al-Qaida-linked groups controlling it began in earnest Saturday, after hundreds of French forces deployed ...