MILAN The mammoth advertisement featuring Madonna wearing a track suit draped the scaffolding on the side of Milan’s cathedral for weeks this summer and made one thing clear, the Swedish clothing retailer Hennes & Mauritz was taking the Italian market very seriously.
What started three years ago as a tentative one-store foray onto Milan’s busiest pedestrian […]
Dolce & Gabbana put sex back on fashion’s agenda with a show that tipped its cap to the lewd, rude and cartoonish designs of Thierry Mugler and Jean Paul Gaultier.
It was hard not to think of Gaultier’s costumes for Madonna’s 1990 Blond Ambition tour when the first model stepped out on to the UV-lit catwalk […]
Last week, designer Giorgio Armani took aim at the media and fashion stylists. These two groups, he maintained, were responsible for the ultra-thin models now collapsing on runways around the world. My mother always told me to make sure I had on a pair of clean underpants in case I got run over by a […]
You can never be too rich or too thin, or so the saying goes. But moves at major catwalk shows to stem the use of underweight models suggest the tide may be turning.
The debate kicked off when Madrid fashion week decided, in response to local government pressure, to ban models with a body mass index […]
Whether you’re 7 or 70, this fall there’s one fashion trend that promises to bridge the gap between the young and the old: leggings and tights. Yes, even if you’ve got a “grand” in front of your name, you can still pull off (and on) the latest craze in fashion. Just follow a few simple […]
SOME say fashion is pain. And with women’s high heels hitting dizzying heights, it is something the fashion conscious are going to find out all about.
The craze has already hit Britain, with some heels reportedly as high as 13 centimetres.
And the trend is coming to Australia. Jasmine Bingemann, business manager of footwear and accessories for […]
One might guess that “no” isn’t a word Paris Hilton hears very often…that is, until now.
TellParisNo.com was recently launched in protest of Paris Hilton’s posession of a pet kinkajou monkey, which, according to the site, is a crime. The following is from a statement made by the animal-rights group:
“The latest victim of Paris’s affections is […]
At their Milan atelier last week, designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana were wrangling over the theme for their D&G fashion show Monday in Milan. Which backdrop, music and props would render the spring-summer 2007 collection more “sexy, glamorous and, I hope, fashionable?” fretted Mr. Gabbana.
Messrs. Dolce and Gabbana have a lot riding on the […]
White House national security adviser Stephen J. Hadley met with Republican senators yesterday in an effort to reach final agreement on legislation that would govern the military trials of terrorism suspects, but they did not resolve a dispute over whether the captives should have access to U.S. courts.
The complex measure, which President Bush has called […]
Are you stylistically challenged? Follow these tips from the experts.
We had this teacher in high school we called Mrs. Penis Head (horrible, I know) because her short hair had been the same for years: parted in the middle and feathered on the sides. We wondered in whispers why she still had that haircut in the […]