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PARIS (AP) — French President Francois Hollande's $11,000-a-month barber bills have ignited a national scandal, undermining his carefully constructed image as a regular guy. But hair challenges have bedeviled plenty of other politicians.
MILAN (AP) — Light and transparent fabrics — from organza to lace to netting — dominated the shows Friday at Milan Fashion Week.
Milan womenswear designers experimented with all manner of sheer fabrics, creating decidedly feminine looks for next spring and summer that new materials gave a contemporary modern flair.
CANNES, France (AP) — Natalie Portman is at home on the Cannes red carpet, but her appearance Saturday was her first as director as well as star.
Portman wrote, directed and stars in the Hebrew-language festival entry "A Tale of Love and Darkness."
NEW YORK (AP) — Shoe great Manolo Blahnik will be honored in September with the Artistry of Fashion award from The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
His "dedication to superior craftsmanship and innovative design" was cited for the honor, to be bestowed September 9 at a Lincoln Center luncheon ahead of New York Fashion Week, the museum said in a statement.
PARIS (AP) — Their musical styles couldn't be further apart, but that didn't stop rapper Kanye West and former-Beatle and fashion dad Paul McCartney arriving at the Stella McCartney show buddy-buddy to join actor Woody Harrelson on the front row.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood took its collective gaze off itself and shifted it to fashion Friday night as designer and director Tom Ford staged an eye-popping show rivaled by the starry makeup of the audience.
NEW YORK (AP) — At his Fashion Week runway show in September, Oscar de la Renta sat in his usual spot: in a chair right inside the wings, where he could carefully inspect each model just as she was about to emerge in one of his sumptuous, impeccably constructed designs.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama went under Tim Gunn's fashion microscope and got an approving nod, but not all first ladies fared as well — Hillary Rodham Clinton among them.
Gunn and a panel of fashion experts reviewed the fashion sense of the nation's first ladies at a National Archives forum Tuesday, and found plenty of do's and don'ts.
NEW YORK (AP) — Would Audrey Hepburn have snatched up one of the neoprene straight-legged trouser sets or girly off-the-shoulder dresses from Zac Posen's New York Fashion Week runway?
Or maybe the white, all-over embroidered trousers with a matching long-sleeve top?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tongues are wagging over President Barack Obama's audacity to wear taupe.
The sight of Obama discussing possible U.S. military action in Syria in a light-colored suit lit up Twitter on Thursday, and the reviews of his unusual fashion choice were less than fashionable.
MILAN (AP) — The line, long under-rated as one of geometry's most basic form, is getting a lot of exposure on the Milan menswear runway.
Designers are embracing stripes of, well, every stripe, and using them as a metaphor of sorts to clean up the line, that is the silhouettes, of the collections presented during Milan Fashion Week, in its third day on Monday.
LONDON (AP) — Heritage luxury brand Mulberry always nods to traditional Britishness on its catwalks, and its new spring showcase Sunday was no different, with hints of 1960s London, English roses and a bulldog called Turbo.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The favorite guessing game in Rome these days is who will be the next pope. Few take it more seriously than the Gammarelli family, tailors to the Vatican for over 200 years. For the past seven conclaves, Gammarelli has prepared three identical white outfits in small, medium and large for the new pontiff's first appearance on the balcony of St.
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Just minutes before showtime, the neophyte models fidgeted nervously as helpers rushed to put the final touches on makeup and adjust the clothes.
But when the time came, the 15 young women and men, each in turn, headed down the catwalk — some gracefully, others a little more challenged by the artificial limbs they all use after surviving cancer.
MILAN (AP) — The winter fashion statement coming out of Milan this time has been decidedly conservative.
Milan designers stuck to the classics in their menswear collections for next winter, presented during four days of previews that ended Tuesday, but sought to enhance the traditional with a focus on technology and details.