Today's News

The price of cotton fell to 77.16 cents last weekend as a result of an expected rise in American production and world stockpiles reaching a historic high.

The Body Shop recently unveiled model and actress Lily Cole as its Global Brand Advocate and face of its 'Beauty with Heart' campaign.

Dick's Sporting Goods Inc reported quarterly results that comfortably beat Wall Street estimates, helped by stronger sales at its online business and Golf Galaxy stores.

The Royal Mail has launched a series of stamps celebrating Great British Fashion. Featuring designs from Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen, Zandra Rhodes and Ossie Clark, the images were shot for the series by...

Fragrance company Coty Inc withdrew its $10.7 billion takeover bid for Avon Products Inc on Monday evening, saying the world's largest cosmetics direct seller had missed a deadline to start discussing a deal that...

Swedish budget fashion giant H&M said on Tuesday sales at stores open a year or more dropped 10 percent in local currencies in April, right in line with a Reuters poll forecast.

The Swiss competition commission said it will extend measures for Swatch Group to supply mechanical components to competitors through 2013.

A growing number of people are attracted to a career in horology as Swiss watch firms vie to meet buoyant Asian demand and to fill the hole left when industry heavyweight Swatch decided to cut the volume of mechanical...

Italian luxury shoemaker Salvatore Ferragamo said on Monday its net profit including minorities in the first quarter rose 10.2 percent to 17 million euros boosted by higher sales.

British fashion label Paul Smith said Tuesday it was planning to open 24 stores in China over the next five years in its second attempt at tapping the country's booming luxury market.

A sweeping new Moscow fashion exhibit illustrates the evolution of Soviet couture behind the Iron Curtain from the post World War One era to Perestroika.

Platinum will remain in surplus this year, weighing on prices, but sister metal palladium will switch into a deficit as demand recovers, industrials group Johnson Matthey predicted Monday.

Selfridges has won the title of department store of the year at the Global Department Store Summit, held in Paris on 10th and 11th May.

Avon Products Inc shares rose more than 5 percent in premarket trading on Monday, a day after the cosmetics company said it would consider the latest proposal from Coty Inc, raising hopes of a takeover.

It had been the American brand’s dream for so long. And now it’s become reality: Levi’s opened last week its flagship store on the Champs Elysées in Paris.

To celebrate the launch of the Eau de Lacoste L.12.12 Rouge fragrance, Lacoste teamed up with Central Saint Martin's and challenged students to design original visual statements that encapsulated the fragrance...

Prices of rough diamonds are expected to rise this year after a turbulent 2011, driven by recovering consumer demand in the United States and a robust appetite for the gems in Asia.

Women's specialty retailer Francesca's Holdings Corp said it fired its chief financial officer Gene Morphis after an internal probe found that he had improperly communicated company information through...

Italian eyeglasses maker Safilo said on Friday it plans to cut 1,000 jobs after losing a contract to manufacture eyewear for designer Giorgio Armani to larger rival Luxottica last November.

Avon Products Inc on Sunday said it told Coty Inc that it would consider the smaller company's $10.7 billion (6.6 billion pounds) takeover bid and it expected to respond within a week.

The highly anticipated British brand has provoked rumours of its arrival in France to resurface by hiring a French press agency. After previous failed attempts and the launch of Topshop and Topman online stores, could...

Will Italians be the best-dressed squad of the London 2012 Olympic Games? The Italy team is pinning its hopes of striking gold in the style stakes on fashion guru Giorgio Armani, and his 50-piece Olympic collection.

Britain's biggest department store chain John Lewis posted another double-digit rise in sales last week as the nation's wet weather proved favourable for its key household goods business.

Lectra has announced the appointment of Bruno Mattia as Director, Strategic Accounts Fashion.

Boutiques like Aesop and big multinationals such as L'Oreal, Estee Lauder and Unilever are finding that men, especially Asian men, are increasingly willing to shell out sizeable sums to take care of their skin.

Consumer morale in Britain worsened in April as people became more worried about the availability of jobs and shied away from buying big-ticket items like cars, a survey by lender Nationwide showed on Friday.

Retailer Nordstrom Inc reported a quarterly profit below Wall Street's expectations after pouring tens of millions of dollars into its e-commerce business, and said it would spend more on that during the rest of...

Procter & Gamble Co will move its skin care, cosmetics and personal-care headquarters from Ohio to Singapore to be closer to the growing Asian market, and the president of the group will leave rather than move.