
Transgenders break into Brazil's modeling sector
Walking the catwalk in a Brazilian bikini is a nerve-racking experience for even the most seasoned of models, but for Felipa Tavares it's nothing ...

Rihanna a rock star on Victoria's Secret catwalk
Rihanna rocked lingerie at Wednesday night's Victoria's Secret fashion show in New York, providing the highlight of the live-music soundtrack and ...

Young Fendi branches out with recycled material
Ilaria Venturini Fendi has translated the same attention to detail and craftsmanship she learned working over the years in her famous family's Italian ...

European fashion buyers look to Nigeria
A model struts the runway wearing a flowing newspaper print gown in this African megacity where international high-end fashion buyers are looking ...

Warhol Foundation takes on cosmetics with Nars
Francois Nars had Andy Warhol coffee table books in his living room and Yves Saint Laurent in his closet growing up in the '70s in the south of France

Leona Lewis at peace with One Direction fans
Leona Lewis understands that One Direction fans are protective of their lads. Since being linked with Liam Payne from the boy band, the British singer ...

Louis V, Miu Miu and Elie Saab give grand finale
Marc Jacobs, more than anyone, knows that it's not what you say but how you say it. The Louis Vuitton showman thus capped an incredibly strong Paris ...

Chanel heads up imaginative, spirited day of shows
"Don't take things too seriously," said Karl Lagerfeld standing next to a towering wind turbine inside Paris' Grand Palais, "especially not fashion.
Fashion show canceled after collection is lost
There's going to be a one-hour hole in the normally tight Paris Fashion Week calendar, after representatives of label Hakaan said its entire ...

Givenchy, Hermes and Celine get elegant
True style doesn't try too hard. That was the statement at Paris Fashion Week, alarmingly simple, but proved in a number of ready-to-wear ...

Dior hemlines rise and designers use color, black
Spring signals new beginnings. Not only in statement-making prints and new colors — as the Paris spring-summer 2013 season has shown — but in bold ...

Fashion shows travel continents and eras in Paris
Paris fashion has no boundaries and no borders. Thursday's cultural melting pot of spring-summer 2013 shows was proof enough. Curious designers, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...