Spring’s Marathon Ends: No One Trend Emerges But Retailers Laud Paris

Despite the lack of a unified direction at the Paris collections, some buyers said they would increase their spending by as much as 15 percent.

Top African diplomats warned they will block a deal to advance the Doha global trade talks if their demands for action on cotton subsidies aren’t met.

Moody’s Investors Service downgraded its ratings on the corporate family and senior debt load of Tommy Hilfiger USA Inc.

A brief look at some of the day’s stories.

Keep it light — from oversized sweater dresses to beribboned caftans, that’s the mantra behind some of spring’s most appealing looks.

Globalization: It’s a good thing. And the French worry far too much about China being a threat to their jobs.

Recognizing that women can’t go to the office dressed like dinosaurs, Yohji Yamamoto has more to offer than the spiky looks shown on the Paris runway last week.

She made a hit with that circular snakeskin bag, but Devi Kroell has many more tempting numbers this season.

Louis Vuitton took over the gilded Petit Palais Sunday night for a fashion show and a party to celebrate its new Champs-Elysees flagship.

Lapo Elkann, grandson of the late Gianni Agnelli, has been hospitalized after an apparent drug overdose.

China is set to make the jump from garment center to fashion capital, according to designers featured in an exhibition at the Kennedy Center.

Han Feng’s decision to design costumes for the English National Opera’s new production of “Madam Butterfly” was partly a gesture of friendship.

Textile vendors exhibiting at Material World’s inaugural New York show said quality, innovation and dependability were attracting buyers.

Textile vendors are grappling with lingering uncertainty over Chinese quotas and escalating energy prices as they prepare for the Los Angeles International Textile Show to be held Oct. 17-19 at the California Market Center.

Evelyn Lauder and Elizabeth Hurley made quite a team.

The Body Shop is bound for Russia.

On a rundown stretch of 39th Street, far from the bohemian rhapsodies of the Lower East Side or Williamsburg, the Fashion Center Business Improvement District held a party Wednesday to promote its first arts festival, which kicks off on Oct. 17.

Wal-Mart’s new contemporary line, Metro 7, marks a number of firsts for the world’s largest retailer — ones it hopes will help give its $25 billion apparel business a fashionable edge.

The number of U.S. buyers increased by more than 50 percent at the seventh edition of White, establishing the cutting-edge fashion and accessories fairs as an essential stopover in their increasingly tight schedules.

Poleci is growing slowly and deliberately.

The Collection at Chevy Chase, the first luxury retail enclave set for metro Washington, has signed on four more high-profile tenants.

A discrimination charge by a former department manager was filed on Tuesday with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against a Saks Fifth Avenue store in Raleigh, N.C.

Haggling over finds is so yesterday for the Turkish shopper, who is waiting, credit card at the ready, for a pageant of new stores to move into Istanbul.

The retail sector trotted out its sometimes-schizophrenic mix of cynicism and optimism here Monday when asked to “vote” on issues ranging from the strength of the holiday season to corporate social responsibility.

Poor Joanne Lipman. First The Wall Street Journal sends her off after 22 years of service and now Conde Nast can barely find a place for her to sit.

Spyder Active Sports is keeping it in the family.

A new location outside Milan did not discourage exhibitors and visitors from attending Mipel, the four-day leather goods exhibition here.