The monarch’s choice to wear mostly faux fur comes as a number of fashion labels have opted to forgo real fur. She has sat next to Anna Wintour at London Fashion Week and awarded Stella McCartney the Order of the British Empire. Now Queen Elizabeth II is building on her …
BEIJING — Chinese authorities have tried over the years to ban all sorts of behaviors on the grounds that they are “uncivilized.” They’ve attempted to stop public spitting. They’ve tried to stop people from slurping their soup too loudly. They’ve had a go at prohibiting people from jaywalking and cutting …
Being associated with taking off clothes turns out to be good marketing It is a little bit of magic. A gesture up and a seam comes together. A gesture down and a garment comes apart. The zip was one of the later fruits of the Industrial Revolution, and one that was …
SEOUL/PARIS/TOKYO (Reuters) – From an eye shadow that opens with the flick of a thumb, Zippo-style, to a barely-there foundation in subtle blue-gray packaging: men’s make-up is getting a makeover as manufacturers bid to take it more mainstream. France’s Chanel and Japan’s Pola Orbis are among firms launching new ranges …
MADRID/SYDNEY (Reuters) – A jump in the price of wool from drought-ravaged Australia, the world’s top exporter of high-quality fleeces, is rattling through the global clothing supply chain, with some mills passing along costs and retailers cutting down on wool or raising prices. A shearer removes wool from a sheep …
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth made a surprise appearance in the front row at a fashion catwalk on Tuesday where she watched a show by emerging designer Richard Quinn. Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II stands next to Caroline Rush, Chief Executive of the British Fashion Council (BFC), as she …
Visitors view a 1906 trunk, displayed as part of the “Volez, Voguez, Voyagez,” Louis Vuitton exhibit, in the former American Stock Exchange building, in New York Financial District, Monday, Nov. 6, 2017. NEW YORK (AP) — As travel changed, so did luggage. That’s the story told by an elaborate exhibition …
600 years in the history of trousers. GO TO A MEETING WITH any male politician today and you’re almost certainly going to be standing in front of a man wearing pants, except perhaps in Bermuda, where the eponymous shorts are the nation’s official dress. But in Imperial Rome, obviously, things were …
Etiquette experts reveal the traditional rules which determine what the royals wear. The outfits worn by the Royal Family have fascinated many – from the Queen’s rainbow coats to the Duchess of Cambridge’s tiaras. But fans of the royals will have noticed that they have never seen Prince George in …
My closet looks exactly like Donald Duck’s: two dozen identical white shirts all in a row. About three years ago I decided to start wearing a uniform to the office, so I went to J. Crew and ordered three of the same suit in the same fabric and a score …
The absence of ornaments on men’s bodies and clothing for two centuries was a historical anomaly. Things are now getting back to normal TUTANKHAMUN went to his grave decked out in gold, and for millennia after, jewellery was for men as much as for women. For a short time, though, …
