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Michiko Hughes & Clifton Piper give their verdict on the highs and lows at this year’s Air New Zealand Fashion Week

View the Felipe Oliveira Baptista spring/summer 2010 collection from Paris Fashion Week.

TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire - Sept. 30, 2009) - Sweetspot.ca , Canada’s online lifestyle guide for women, has a brand new look. The site has been reorganized, redesigned and relaunched to sweeten the user experience. Over the last five years, sweetspot.ca has grown to include the following sections: SweetMama, SweetHome and MySweetBaby. This redesign will keep the ever-growing family and …

In a pop culture landscape where most young female characters seem to be scheming gossip girls, fashion-obsessed social climbers or hopelessly besotted by vampires, “Whip It,” opening in theaters here Friday, is a sweet, empowering and thoroughly entertaining change of pace.

View the Limi Feu spring/summer 2010 collection from Paris Fashion Week.

Wrap Yourself in Sleep with WÜL Natural Bedding for Boston Fashion Week! (Cambridge, MA) – Prepare yourself for all the celebrations taking place during Boston Fashion Week by getting a good night’s sleep in style!

View the Anne Valerie Hash spring/summer 2010 collection from Paris Fashion Week.

Carrie Hudek-Chiuso was one of 5 women killed in 2008 in Tinley Park case About 10 girls clad in this season’s expected trends — bulky sweaters in yellows, teals and bright purples paired with high boots — are slated to mingle with a crowd next week to raise money for academic scholarships in honor of a woman slain in Tinley Park last year.

National and local fashionistas will be in Royal Oak for a two-day fashion event. Models will hit the runway during “Fashion in Detroit” at the Detroit Zoo from 1-6 p.m. Thursday and Friday. The event is the brainchild of Birmingham designer Joe Faris, who appeared as a contestant on TV’s “Project Runway” during its fifth season. Shown are, from left, Styline magazine editor Karen Buscemi, K’Kao …

View the Moon Young Hee spring/summer 2010 collection from Paris Fashion Week.

View the Impasse de la Defense spring/summer 2010 collection from Paris Fashion Week.

Kate Hudson, Diane von Furstenberg, Michael Kors and Anna Wintour made Queens the center of the fashion world for a few hours on Thursday, September 10.

A BUDDING fashion designer from Hatfield launched her own clothing range inspired by her Moroccan heritage during the 25th anniversary of London Fashion Week.

We’re super relieved no one was hurt in today’s crazy-ass Times Square bombing but thought one bit of conspiracy theory motive interesting: that it occurred the same day that the Weather Underground mistakenly set off a bomb in the Greenwich Village townhouse, which killed three of the group and sent the rest truly underground, where they stayed for over a decade.

Classic signs in Greenpoint; click on images for greater detail. (Photos by Rolando Pujol) First off, thanks to all of you who have submitted signs to our ever growing collection . These signs are disappearing every day from our streets, and we’re happy to provide a space for their digital preservation.

As a kid, we knew nothing of the Paris Review, but we did know George Plimpton. In the 1980s, he was busy hawking the doomed Intellivision home video-game system and later, microwave popcorn.

Despite news of rising employment rates and other positive economic indicators, the recession is still very much on everybody’s minds. The Fall 2009 collections that debuted last spring are interesting snapshots of the fashion community’s take on where we were then and where we would want to be this fall. The general consensus is that designers handled the gloom in one of two ways: through …

Galleria Dallas has long been recognized as a source for fashion innovation in North Texas and across the Southwest.

Forget Coco Chanel and Paris. On Saturday, you can get your fashion fix and support a good cause too all at the Eye on Fashion runway show at Frockx in La Cañada.

It was while researching back issues of British Vogue for a special millennial issue in 1999 that I came across something quite unexpected among the fashion photographs in the magazine’s archive: thousands of canines. “The next best thing to having the world at your feet is to have a dog at your heels,” Vogue proclaimed in 1930, and over a century of its pages, the animals have been companions …