
Wal-Mart warns suppliers on stricter measures
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has alerted its global suppliers that it will immediately drop them if they subcontract their work to factories that haven't been ...

AP Photos: Post-baby Danes among Globes style wins
With all the pressure to strike the right style note at the Golden Globes — the kickoff to Hollywood's award season — Claire Danes had one more: a ...

Why efforts to stop factory fires have failed
About a year and a half before a fire at a clothing factory in Bangladesh killed 112 people in November, executives from Wal-Mart, Gap and other big ...

Katy Perry gets a perfume deal
Katy Perry is adding some new scents to her perfume line. The singer and songwriter is to develop a line of signature scents with beauty company Coty ...

Known for photos, Vogue's Coddington pens memoir
The last time Vogue creative director Grace Coddington was impressed by fashion, she was at a Balenciaga runway show in Paris. Since then, designer ...

Teri Shields, Brooke's mom and manager, dead at 79
Teri Shields raised eyebrows when she allowed her 11-year-old daughter, Brooke, to be cast as a prostitute in 1978's "Pretty Baby." A few years later, ...
PVH to buy Warnaco for $2.9B, gain Calvin control
PVH Corp., whose brands include Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, has agreed to buy rival clothier The Warnaco Group Inc. in a cash-and-stock deal ...

Top designer labels abandon Argentina
Adios, Armani. Hasta la vista, Louis Vuitton. The world's most luxurious designer brands are abandoning Argentina rather than comply with tight new ...

Bold looks at NY Fashion Week turn up the volume
The designers previewing spring collections at New York Fashion Week may not have had a single voice, but they all spoke loudly. "Bold" was the word ...