"Sex and the City" fashioned a surprisingly strong opening at the North American box office on Sunday, as frenzied female fans used the romantic comedy as an excuse for a big party.
A Singapore-based "Sex and the City" fan who bought a $19,000 (9,600 pound) travel package inspired by the movie was cheated out of the film's premiere and after-party, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.
By Tim Gaynor SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (Reuters Life!) - Arizona realtor Marie Richert raises the pink, palm-sized gadget and takes aim at the silver foil outline of a man set up in the kitchen of her friend's home.
The clothes make the superhero: Clark Kent ripping his shirt open to reveal an "S" emblazoned on his brawny chest. Bruce Wayne slipping into his Batman outfit to battle the whip-cracking Catwoman.
A gunman died when armed police stormed a house in the fashionable Chelsea area of London to end a siege late on Tuesday.
Legendary dandy Oscar Wilde once declared "One should either be a work of art or wear a work of art," a sentiment endorsed by designer Christian Dior, who acknowledged dandyism as a significant influence on his fashion.
A retrospective of works by US photographer Richard Avedon has taken Milan fashion week by storm, with pundits prophesying that the man who breathed life and soul into glamour will remain an icon.
If South Korean voters think they can scent victory when they go to the ballot box next week, they are absolutely right.
Christian Lacroix, arguably the most extravagant couturier in Paris, never intended to be a fashion designer. His dream was to be a museum curator, a wish come true this week via a breath-taking walk through two centuries of fashion.
While the hope of any major designer nowadays is to come up with the season's "it" bag, in Amsterdam the Museum of Bags and Purses is filled with the "it" bags of centuries past.
From hair cropped short, to smoking cigarettes and making-up in public, the Roaring 20s revolutionised women's wear and lifestyles like no other era before, according to a show kicking off in Paris this weekend.
One of the world's poorest countries, Myanmar is also home to a hidden treasure: rubies, sapphires and other gems, among the finest in the world, whose trade is thriving despite the political unrest gripping the country.
A little black dress and a Soviet painting, gold embroidery and Russian icons: fashion and art are brought together at an exhibition devoted to French fashion house Chanel that opened here on Thursday, September 18th.
British designer Vivienne Westwood's warm eccentricity and frank sensuality imbue a retrospective opening Wednesday, September 26th in Milan alongside fashion week.
Mandy Moore Album: Wild Hope Single: Extraordinary NEW YORK (Billboard) - Even though Mandy Moore's first musical exploits were as a teen during the 2000 bubble-gum boom, she appeared to possess greater gifts that lent promise to adult artistic potential.
