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Playful gender-bending at the Paris fashion shows
Blurring the lines between the masculine and feminine is as old as Shakespeare. Wednesday's fashion week previews in Paris — the second of eight days ...
New, emerging talent kicks off Paris Fashion Week
Fashion week in Paris is always a race against time. Paris — the last city after New York, London and Milan to host shows — is offering up 95 frenetic ...
LA's red-carpet fashion gets filtered for shoppers
Style looks a little different when it comes through a Hollywood lens, and shoppers often like what they see. Sunday's Emmy Awards featured the first ...
Milan designers: Summer fashion should be fun
The looks were sheer and the message for next summer from Milan was crystal clear: Fashion should be fun. Many designers showing spring-summer ...
'Homeland' and 'Modern Family' win big at Emmys
The post-Emmy champagne surely tasted sweet for the people at "Modern Family" and "Homeland," but they needed only to look around the Nokia Theatre ...
SHOW BITS: Moore a wallflower, Klum a traffic cop
IT'S NOT TV, IT'S AN AFTER-PARTY Show Bits brings you the 64th annual Primetime Emmy Awards through the eyes of Associated Press journalists.
AP PHOTOS: Color, skin get star billing at Emmys
The new black? Big, bold color. The Emmy Awards red carpet got a lot of its sizzle Sunday night from TV stars in red, orange, yellow, blue and green.
Jimmy Kimmel hosts an efficient Emmycast
What did we learn from Sunday's Emmycast? We learned who won the Emmys, of course. But there were other lessons to be gained from the three-hour ...
SHOW BITS: Stewart drops f-bomb; Party starts
Show Bits brings you the 64th annual Primetime Emmy Awards through the eyes of Associated Press journalists. Follow them on Twitter where available ...
Color - and a little leg - get noticed at Emmys
Sofia Vergara and Heidi Klum ramped up the sizzle Sunday night on the Emmy Awards red carpet that already had TV's biggest stars talking about just ...
Colors in, and black out, on Milan runway
At least the fashion world can agree on one antidote to the financial crisis: Color. Black, a wardrobe staple that might be a safe haven in a crisis, ...
Sharon Stone checked out before Milan auction
Sharon Stone helped raise more than $1.1 million (€846,000) for AIDS research at a charity auction, hours after a brief trip to a hospital during ...
Milan runway not all black and white
It's not all black and white in Milan this season. Women's collections coming off the runway for next year's warmer weather are all about the pastoral ...
Ballet meets Valentino at glittery NYCB gala
One by one, the ballerinas of New York City Ballet made their grand entrances in "Bal de Couture," a new work by Peter Martins, and the glittery crowd ...
C'est chic! Impressionism taken down the runway
Paris fashion week will soon open in style, with an exhibit that puts impressionist art down the runway — literally. The exhibit, "Impressionism and ...
Jimmy Kimmel rolls out red carpet as Emmy host
After rolling out the red carpet Wednesday morning in anticipation of Sunday's Emmy ceremony, host Jimmy Kimmel warned he's planning a prank on folks ...
Milan offers women color, patterns for next summer
After New York and London, it's Milan's turn to have a say as to how women will dress for the spring-summer 2013. If the first day of previews ...
Alex Morgan face of future for US Soccer
Alex Morgan and her U.S. soccer teammates are on a victory tour after winning the gold medal at the London Olympics. Morgan's late header against ...
Flights of fancy at Day 2 of London Fashion Week
A catwalk of faux grass and barefoot, denim-clad models took audiences to 1960s America. Sweet dungarees and clogs conjured up a fisherman's tale at ...
Fashion designer Pinto teams with Chicago museum
Designer Maria Pinto, well-known for dressing first lady Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey, used her eye for fashion to curate antiquities from the ...
If you're a top designer, you gotta have a theme
The luna moth. Oscar Wilde. Eighteenth-century Japanese scrolls. An obscure Bauhaus artist. Antique porcelain. Quick, what do these things have in ...
William and Kate 'saddened' over nude photo claim
The British palace will investigate a French magazine's claim of having topless photographs of Prince William's wife, Kate, an aide to the royal ...
AP PHOTOS: Bold style highlights NY Fashion Week
Forget about delicate flowers and pastels — there's no room for shrinking violets in the spring designs previewed over eight days at New York Fashion ...
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 ...