NEW YORK (AP) — Tory Burch was inspired by higher learning for her fall collection at New York Fashion Week. Specifically, she looked to Black Mountain College, a progressive school in North Carolina.

"I'm amazed by how many people don't know about it," Burch said backstage. "It was founded in 1933, rural North Carolina and it's really where modern art started in America. Not started but really informed the trajectory of modern art."

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal homeland security agents seized a large haul of counterfeit luxury handbags, wallets and belts smuggled through ports in the New York-city area and Los Angeles, officials said Thursday.

NEW YORK (AP) — Rent the Runway is adding a less expensive option for its fashion rental service.

The company, founded in 2009, said Monday that will offer a service called RTR Update, which will cost $89 per month and will include four fashion pieces delivered from more than 200 top brands, including Milly and Tory Burch.

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — U.S. designer Tory Burch has changed the description of one of her designs, a traditional Romanian-style coat, after her brand angered thousands of Romanians for marketing it as a garment inspired by Africa.

The online group La Blouse Roumaine, which promotes traditional costume, showed on Facebook Burch's design next to a virtually identical Romanian one on display in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.