Correction: Retailers-Bangladesh story
In a story May 15 about retailers' reactions to a proposal aimed at making garment factories safer in Bangladesh, The Associated Press erroneously ...
Chains grapple with how to improve safety
While several more global clothing chains on Tuesday were announcing that they agreed to a historic pact to improve factory conditions in Bangladesh, ...

Bangladesh honors the dead from building collapse
Thousands of mourners gathered Tuesday at the wreckage of a Bangladeshi garment factory building to offer prayers for the souls of the 1,127 people ...

Big retailers back safety accord in Bangladesh
Some of the world's largest retailers have agreed to a first-of-its-kind pact to improve safety at some of Bangladesh's garment factories following ...

Search ends in Bangladesh; death toll put at 1,127
Several of the biggest Western retailers embraced a plan that would require them to pay for factory improvements in Bangladesh as the three-week ...

Stars put punk edge in their Met Gala outfits
Miley Cyrus, Anne Hathaway and Cameron Diaz were among the celebrities to embrace the punk theme at Monday night's Met gala, the fundraiser at the ...

Brands risk image in varying Bangladesh responses
Global clothing brands involved in Bangladesh's troubled garment industry responded in starkly different ways to the building collapse that killed ...

Big brands rejected Bangladesh factory safety plan
As Bangladesh reels from the deaths of hundreds of garment workers in a building collapse, the refusal of global retailers to pay for strict ...

Friendships bubble up at NY Fashion Week
Rachel Roy was at Vera Wang's NY Fashion Week show Tuesday, in a choice seat next to John Legend. Tory Burch regularly attends the shows of Narciso ...

Weather's silver lining: coat comfort on runways
Rain, snow, ice. There's a lot of grumbling about the stiletto-adverse weather as New York Fashion Week hit Day 5 on Monday. But there's a silver ...

Hilfiger updates preppy, menswear styles with mod
Tommy Hilfiger taught a lesson on mixed messages to the New York Fashion Week on Sunday night. At first, the looks at the Park Avenue Armory, staged ...

The sound of NY Fashion Week: smartphones snapping
Remember clapping? As in when a fashion designer puts on his runway finale and then takes a bow before an adoring crowd. The fashion hordes these days ...

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 ...

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 ...