Light-weight metal, steel and wood instead of gold and brightly coloured gems instead of diamonds featured at a jewellery fair in northern Italy aiming to tempt consumers with lower prices.
Major palm oil buyers face being graded for their green credentials after figures showing they have bought only a fraction of the sustainable palm oil available, environmental group WWF said on Tuesday 12 May.
It's the fashion statement of the year: Bravo's new reality series "The Fashion Show" is not -- repeat, not -- a knockoff of the recently decamped Bravo show (now at Lifetime) "Project Runway."
Thought Sacha Baron Cohen couldn't get any more outrageous? Think again. The British actor debuted a video excerpt on Friday from his new mockumentary style movie "Bruno" featuring a gay, Austrian fashionista alter-ego to rival his 2006 over-sexed Kazakh TV reporter Borat.
Madonna will be the new face of Louis Vuitton in its next publicity campaign, for the ladies’ off-the-peg collection for next winter following the “unprecedented success” of the previous campaign, announced the luxury house.
Procter & Gamble failed to adequately address contamination and other manufacturing problems at a plant in Puerto Rico that produces over-the-counter drugs and Olay cosmetics, U.S. regulators said in a letter released on Tuesday 5 May.
Amid the swine flu outbreak, face masks are becoming a common sight around the world, but in Japan they have been part of everyday streetwear for decades and even spawned their own fashion trends.
Kate Harding has spent most of her life on one diet or another, losing weight but always gaining it back. Determined to improve her quality of life, she joined a fast-growing group of anti-dieting activists promoting overweight people's civil rights.
German fashion house Escada will face insolvency if its plan to raise fresh cash, replace a bond and renegotiate credit lines fails, Chief Executive Bruno Saelzer said on Tuesday 28 April.
A source close to the company confirmed to AFP today the news that Axa Prvate Equity is on the lookout for a buyer for the Lorraine based cystal producer Daum, which it acquired in 2000.
MTV is getting into the fashion-competition space with a new project from the producers of "The Real World." The network is set to announce a series order for "The Stylist" on Tuesday 28 April during its "upfront" presentation to advertisers.
Steven Madden Ltd raised its 2009 profit outlook and the shoe maker expects to report first-quarter results above market estimates, driven by the performance of the Steve Madden Womens and Madden Girl brands.
Style Network has ordered a new reality series about the world of mother-daughter socialites. In "Mothers and Daughters of Dallas" (the show's working title), the Comcast-owned fashion-themed network will tell the stories of wealthy women in the Lone Star State as they struggle to maintain their status.
Fashion reality show "Project Runway" will make its long-awaited return to TV on August 20 on its new Lifetime cable channel home, Lifetime Television said on Tuesday.
Uma Thurman has joined the Givenchy dream team. From this autumn the heroine of cult films Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill (Quentin Tarantino) will be the face of the fashion house, with a perfume that is still under review due in September.
