A striking brunette sashayed down the catwalk, showing off her simple yet elegant white robe and black headgear to the enraptured audience. Sister Lucja of the Order of the Sacred Heart of Jesus smiled as the crowd burst into applause.
Italian casual clothing brand Diesel on Monday April 21th unveiled a new flagship store in Tokyo, its biggest in Asia, setting its sights on hip baby boomers and ageing fashionistas amid a shrinking youth market.
Environmental demonstrators targeted Unilever across Europe on Monday, entering plants and scaling walls, including those of its London headquarters.
By Nellie Andreeva LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Jennie Garth has abruptly departed from a CBS comedy pilot, raising speculation that she will return to the "Beverly Hills, 90210" fold in a spinoff being developed at the CW network.
By Marie-Louise Gumuchian MILAN (Reuters Life!) - Fashion house Versace takes a trip around the world in its new furniture collection by rolling out luxurious period sofas and majestic white beds for its wealthy admirers.
Italy's Luxottica has signed a new deal with fashion designer Stella McCartney for the design, production and distribution of sunglasses.
In a rare moment of candor in Hollywood, Jackie Chan admitted he was unimpressed with the script of his new movie, "The Forbidden Kingdom" but the chance to work with fellow martial arts star Jet Li for the first time lured him to the project.
High-profile protests against Canada's annual seal hunt would be less effective if hunters were banned from clubbing the animals to death, say two leading Canadian provincial politicians.
Some have called it a technological breakthrough, others simply an elaborate publicity stunt, but a controversial space-age swimsuit has gripped the swimming world.
Brazil, China, Turkey and South Africa are the top picks of high-profile emerging markets fund manager Mark Mobius, who also sees value in developed market firms with heavy emerging market exposure.
A suggestive sunglasses advert for American designer Tom Ford showing a woman's lips biting a man's finger was banned in Italy Tuesday April 15th for being too "vulgar.
In a rare moment of candour in Hollywood, Jackie Chan admitted he was unimpressed with the script of his new movie, "The Forbidden Kingdom" but the chance to work with fellow martial arts star Jet Li for the first time lured him to the project.
For Sarah Jessica Parker and Dennis Quaid, the decision to work on the film "Smart People," which opens on Friday, might seem like a risky choice given the jarring contrast between their roles as a lonely doctor and cranky professor and their public images.
A major Australian fashion event on Friday April 11th scrapped plans to use a 14-year-old model on the Sydney catwalk after an outcry over her age.
A gold encrusted dagger once owned by the Indian emperor who built the Taj Mahal has sold for more than 1.5 million pounds ($3 mln) at auction in London -- three times its expected price.
