China Pressure Cooker: Ethical Questions Grow Over Low-Cost Sourcing

Jaime Pressly is on a roll with an Emmy, a baby and now a lifestyle fashion collection launching for spring.

Call it hippie minus the dippy. A lightly bohemian style, seen in everything from fringed scarves to tribal embellishments, made its presence felt on the Paris runways.

Robert Normand’s sun-kissed beachy collection offered floor-sweeping T-shirt dresses splashed with floral prints and colorful abstracts, plus bubble-shaped batik minis that were charming.

Visitors to the eco-friendly section of Première Vision applauded the diversity of fibers on offer, as well as the wide range of ultralightweight fabrics.

Even the most evolved men sometimes have a hard time dealing with their wives’ success.

Some actors figure out their characters through the accent. Others do it through their backstory.

Stricken with a series of hand injuries that left him unable to perform and sometimes unable to play a single note on the piano, Murray Perahia worried a few years ago that his musical career might come to an end.

Everyone knows fashion is theater. But what happens when theater becomes fashion?

Too Faced co-founder Jerrod Blandino believes women are beginning to opt for a bolder lip — whether shiny or matte.

Leda “Lee” Pucci, who with her late husband Nicholas founded the Pucci Manikin Co. in the basement of their Mount Vernon, N.Y., home in the Fifties, died of…

Kihachiro Onitsuka, chairman of Asics Corp., a leading footwear and activewear company, died of heart failure in a hospital in Kobe, Japan, on Saturday. He…

Low prices are coming at a cost that consumers and fashion companies can no longer ignore.

After nearly two decades of stagnant wages and poor labor conditions, China’s manufacturing workers have started demanding higher salaries, pushing up the price of production nationwide.

Jonathan Newhouse, chairman of Conde Nast International, is to receive an award of merit from the French government and will be pinned as an Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters during a ceremony in Paris on Jan. 16.

At Ralph Lauren’s 40th anniversary show and black-tie dinner here last month, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said that if asked for a great New Yorker, central casting would send the designer.

Glasses are as much a part of Karl Lagerfeld’s image as white shirts and slim-fitting suits.

Donna Karan has turned to fashion to further her humanitarian efforts.

Hedi Slimane has been replaced by none other than Karl Lagerfeld — as the photographer of the Dior Homme campaign.

It’s a $346.5 million payday for Giorgio Armani.

Bonnie Young, senior creative director for Donna Karan Collection, has left the company to focus exclusively on her namesake children’s wear label.

Wall Street rallied to a record high Monday amid speculation that the subprime mortgage crisis has bottomed out, and apparel retail stocks benefited.

Although the latest handbags from Prada, Gucci and Bottega Veneta are coveted, their vintage counterparts are rare.