J. Crew Set to Open Two Stores in Asia

Kate Bosworth, Jared Leto and Jamie Chung made appearances at the party.

Hailee Steinfeld, Anna Kendrick, Zoe Kazan and Zosia Mamet were some of the young actresses in attendance.

Marc Jacobs is the sole advertiser in Love collector’s edition.

For fall Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen took over a classic car showroom in downtown Manhattan and let the clothes do most of the talking.

The spree of frenetic colors and patterns the designers unleashed was a product of fertile imagination and incredible technical skill.

The French luxury goods maker said it expects to post a record operating margin for the full year.

The designer held her fall presentation in the basement of the Paramount Hotel.

The company said it may be getting closer to reaching a settlement related to the ongoing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigations.

Kim Basinger, despite the weather, was right there beaming in the front row.

French fashion house reported sales advanced 14.4 percent in the fourth quarter.

The online fashion site has tapped two reporters to replace its deputy editor Matthew Schneier, who decamped earlier this month.

The former top Saks Fifth Avenue executive has joined the corporation as president of global digital and global e-commerce.

An imagined journey at sea inspired Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig’s latest collection.

For its newest women’s fragrance, Cartier gleaned inspiration from the panther — the jewelry house’s iconic symbol that’s also the stuff of legend.

The company said the settlement will help “avoid a lengthy and costly confrontation over an issue whose interpretation is objectively uncertain.”

Lupita Nyong’o and Naomi Watts sat front row at the fall show.

The collection was a bold departure that distorted the rules of minimalism with unexpected depth.

Beginning in the spring, blonde-haired Sims will be featured in a campaign to promote the brand’s new Color Assure line.

Over the next two years, plans call for four new spa locations in the U.S., two in London and several in the Middle East.

Gilles Mendel’s collection was all about bold geometric coats and jackets — some dizzying with the number of elements combined in a single piece.

The designer showed two very different aspects of his world, the signature collection and his new Polo women’s line, with which he opened.

Winter Storm Pax brought snow, sleet, rain and ice to the Northeast after pounding the South earlier in the week, forcing thousands of retailers to stay closed.

The retailer will open two stores in the city in May, its first locations in Asia-Pacific.

The momentum at London Fashion Week shows no signs of flagging, with big luxury groups backing young designers and London-based investors eager to build brands.

The chief executive officer of the bankrupt chain left the company this week.

The group is taking an aggressive stand against counterfeit merchandise, especially on the Web.

The opera singer performed at a dinner that followed cocktails attended by Terrence Howard, Lisalla Montenegro, Caroline Byron, and Kate Bosworth.

Furla SpA ended 2013 with a 7 percent gain in sales compared with the previous year.

The department store is developing a freestanding men’s store on Bloor Street in Toronto to tighten its grip on Canada’s luxury market.

Amid the runway madness, fall accessories presentations took place all over town.

The collection was beautiful — chic, unfettered and, typical of Jacobs, a reversal of last season’s dark, highly embellished Victorian melodrama.