Prada Raids Valentino: Graziano de Boni Named As Head of U.S. Division

The top 12 department stores and mass-discount stores favored by wealthy consumers.

China squeaked by Mexico to take over the title of top denim supplier to the U.S. in 2007 with 18.4 percent of the denim market, while, overall, Asia…

Prada Group has finally zeroed in on an executive to head its growing American business, poaching Valentino’s Graziano de Boni, WWD has learned.

The New York Times online broke the Eliot Spitzer scandal, invested untold energy and money on election coverage and went deep on Heath Ledger, but…

The Estée Lauder Cos. Inc. held a cocktail party Tuesday evening to introduce the company’s newly installed president and chief operating officer, Fabrizio Freda, to Wall Street.

Cleveland has risen, fallen and risen again numerous times in its 211-year history.

Greater Cleveland metro area population… City population… Median household income

Since opening its doors in 1995, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, which labels itself the “preeminent home for the celebration and study of rock and roll music” — has inducted music icons like Madonna, Billy Joel, Elvis Presley, the…

Who says Ohio has no style?

Holly Dunlap — and Kellwood’s new owner — hope to take Hollywould up a notch.

Adam lippes is broadening his basics.

NexCen Brands Inc., which is mired in financial difficulties, has hired Rothschild as its investment adviser, according to industry sources.

For Dsquared’s first cruise collection, the focus was on sleek, neutral pieces, including a trenchcoat worn with tailored denim and simple belted shifts of…

With its blinged-out starlets and stage performances ranging from hokey to outrageous, the Eurovision Song Contest is the guilty pleasure of plenty of fashion folk.

When it comes to the green movement, Miguel Adrover knows exactly where he stands.

A new exhibition “Arbiters of Style: Women at the Forefront of Fashion,” at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, features some of the usual suspects and a few of whom you may have never heard.

Anniversaries usually evoke diamonds, retrospectives perhaps, but what of sweating, Botox and almond-scented body wash?

Their Seventies incarnations may have been tight and racy, but jumpsuits are making a comeback for fall in loose-yet-tailored cuts. Left: Matsu’s wool and silk jumpsuit and Sari Gueron’s cotton tulle blouse. Right: Joline Jolink’s cotton and polyester…

Given the ornery economy, competition among specialty stores has gone from fierce to downright Darwinian.

For Mango’s second store in New York — the first unit opened in November in SoHo — the retailer didn’t choose the affluent Upper East Side or Upper West Side.

The House voted to override President Bush’s veto of a $300 billion farm bill on Wednesday evening…

The pouring rain didn’t keep Alberta Ferretti from playing hostess to the stars of “Che” on Tuesday aboard her yacht Prometej.

The devastating earthquake that shattered the countryside near this thriving peg of China’s western development has ground business here to a slow trickle, with continuing fears about aftershocks keeping citizens cautious.

Overseeing his first annual shareholders meeting as Jones Apparel Group Inc.’s chief executive officer, Wesley R. Card maintained the $3.85 billion vendor’s traditional brevity.

According to industry sources, Milan-based private equity fund Clessidra SGR SpA has been sounding out the Italian fashion group about acquiring a majority stake and delisting the company.

Executives continue to exit Kellwood Co. and Liz Claiborne Inc.