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Luxury shoemaker Ferragamo in jewelry debut

MILAN (Reuters) - Italian luxury goods maker Salvatore Ferragamo launched its first jewelry collection this week, targeting wealthy clients who see gold, precious metals and jewels as a safe-haven amid uncertain financial times.Global sales of designer clothes, leather bags and jewels showed ...

South African designer goes from shanty town to London

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African-born fashion designer and entrepreneur Lesego Malatsi has gone from stitching ready-to-wear garments in a Soweto township mall set amid shanties to savoring the sweet success of London's fashion week.Malatsi had his first international show at the weekend ...

Emmy fashions lean toward bright colors, simple lines

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Playing up one of the most popular colors of the fall season, the red carpet was awash in a variety of crimson and scarlet dresses at the Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday."One of fall's hottest trend colors is ...

At Emmy time, the gift suites hit Hollywood

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Adults can embrace their inner child with T-shirts by Lotty Dotty featuring the image of a paper doll who comes with her own detachable Velcro clothing to mix and match, changing the doll's outfit to fit the wearer's ...

Canada to crack down on cadmium in kids' jewelry

TORONTO (Reuters) - The Canadian government said on Monday it plans to restrict the use of cadmium in children's jewelry, all but banning the toxic metal.Guidelines proposed by the Health Department would limit the total concentration of cadmium in to 0.013 percent, ...

Chanel dazzles Paris with starlit haute couture show

PARIS (Reuters) - Chanel's Karl Lagerfeld dazzled the fashion world on Tuesday with a rare nighttime presentation of his fall-winter haute couture collection that conjured up all the magic of a walk through starlit Paris.With his usual sense for high drama, the ...

Lanvin chief declares email-free Wednesday

LAUSANNE (Reuters Life!) - Thierry Andretta, chief executive of France's oldest fashion brand Lanvin, has found a radical remedy against the avalanche of emails he gets every day: he has declared Wednesday an email free day.That way, he says, he gives himself ...

Pierre Cardin puts fashion label up for sale: report

PARIS (Reuters) - Pierre Cardin, one of the longest lasting living French fashion designers, has put his fashion label up for sale, he told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published on Tuesday.Cardin, known for his avant-garde designs, told the paper ...

Disgraced Galliano fired from own fashion label: report

PARIS (Reuters) - Scandal-tainted designer John Galliano has been fired from his own fashion label just weeks after an anti-Semitic outburst cost him his top job at Dior, Women's Wear Daily (WWD) reported on Friday.The British designer was ousted from the "John ...

Dior suspends Galliano pending racism inquiry

PARIS (Reuters) - Christian Dior has suspended star fashion designer John Galliano pending an inquiry into allegedly anti-Semitic remarks, he said on Friday.Galliano was escorted home by French police late on Thursday after a drinking session that ended with him hurling insults ...