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Saab plays it safe with bejeweled couture gowns
Elie Saab's couture never ventures far beyond his safe signature: fitted high-waists and long feminine gowns in powdery sumptuous silk that are always ...
Oil holds near $97 ahead of US debt ceiling vote
The price of oil was steady near four-month highs around $97 a barrel on Wednesday as markets awaited a vote in Congress which would provide a ...
Alan Parker to get BAFTA's highest honor
Alan Parker, the lauded British director whose work includes "Midnight Express," ''Fame" and "Mississippi Burning," is to receive the British Academy ...
Armani mixes classic couture with exotic panache
Only a few living designers can execute a couture show where almost every look glistens as much with classic timelessness as it does with innovation.
Bolshoi ballet names acting artistic director
The Bolshoi ballet on Tuesday named a former prima ballerina to fill in for artistic director Sergei Filin, whose face and eyes were burned in an acid ...
Stephane Rolland perfects sculptural white couture
Stephane Rolland finally hit the right aesthetic for his spring-summer 2013 couture show in Paris, perfecting his take on pure architectural styles.
Lagerfeld supports gay marriage in lesbian couture
Karl Lagerfeld, Chanel's veteran couturier, has shown his support for the legalization of gay marriage in France by sending two models down a catwalk ...
London exhibit features dozens of Manet portraits
A new exhibition is bringing the works of French Impressionist master Edouard Manet to London — although snow is delaying one painting's arrival.
Report: Schwarzenegger says he still loves Shriver
Arnold Schwarzenegger is quoted in an interview in Germany's top-selling newspaper saying he's still in love with his estranged wife, Maria Shriver.
Chanel evokes 19th century in spring couture show
One palace, 90 oak trees and more than 3,000 bushes is the kind of luxury that spells only one thing: Chanel haute couture. The natural landscape ...
INAUGURATION WATCH: A special dress ends a big day
AP journalists fanned out across the capital to cover Inauguration Day as part of a running feed of content and analysis. Here are their reports.
Spring, electricity in the air in couture day 1
There's never a gray moment for haute couture. As it snowed outside, it was a spring garden party for Christian Dior on Monday, the first day of ...
Raf Simons makes his Dior couture garden grow
A garden within a garden was the setting for Christian Dior's flower-obsessed — and typically decadent — couture show. Carrying on with the "flower ...
Atari US files for bankruptcy to break from parent
Video game maker Atari's U.S. operations have filed for bankruptcy protection in an effort to separate from their French parent company, which is ...
Editor who grew up black in Nazi Germany dies
Hans Massaquoi, a former managing editor of Ebony magazine who wrote a memoir about his unusual childhood growing up black in Nazi Germany, has died.
Iris Van Herpen electrifies haute couture
Iris Van Herpen's electrifying haute couture show should have come with a warning sign: Danger High Voltage. A mysterious black statue in a dimly lit ...
Filmmaker Michael Winner dies at 77
"Death Wish" director Michael Winner, a British filmmaker, restaurant critic and bon vivant, died Monday. He was 77. Winner's wife, Geraldine, said ...
Amsterdam-Brussels high-speed rail link is halted
It was supposed to be the perfect 21st century link between two bustling European capitals. Instead, the new high-speed Fyra line connecting Amsterdam ...
80s models return in Galante's natural couture
Maurizio Galante is inspired by nature. To the sound of birdsong, the Italian-born designer presented a textural and organic haute couture ...
More delays at Heathrow as Britain hit by snow
Hundreds of flights were canceled in Britain, France and Germany on Monday as snow and ice blanketed Western Europe. London's Heathrow airport ...
Louis Vuitton, Valentino, Dior perfect menswear
White was the color of Paris menswear fashion shows for fall-winter. But it was not in the clothes. The last of five frenetic days of collections saw ...
Heathrow cancels 260 flights, blames snow
London's Heathrow airport canceled 260 flights — about 20 percent of its usual schedule — on Sunday because of snow and low visibility, causing a ...
'Twilight' creator Meyer makes Sundance debut
Stephenie Meyer knows all about obsessive fans. So it makes sense that the "Twilight" author should produce a movie about a woman who takes another ...
Lanvin plays on proportions, as snow quilts Paris
The snow fell in Paris all day, blanketing the left bank's grand Fine Arts School, the stage for Lanvin's fall-winter 2013 show. The snowy cover saw ...
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 ...