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Thick, textural cardigans and comforting, earth-toned sweaters were featured on the Paris and Milan runways during the autumn/winter 2008-09 menswear collections. Here is a version from D&G.
By SUZY MENKES
The moment of the "metro-sexual" male is past. This season sweaters are rugged and comforting and the patterns, indisputably masculine.
By GUY TREBAY
Black Friday had an unreal quality for stores selling luxury goods, as retailers had to drastically slash prices to stay afloat during a turbulent economy.
HOLIDAY SHOPPING
By JOYCE WADLER AND PENELOPE GREEN
Five design experts offer guidance on what to buy for people who truly are impossible to shop for.
By JESSICA MICHAULT
Well-known luggage brands like Samsonite, as well as luxury brands better known for fashion like Gucci and Prada, are tapping into a desire for distinctive luggage.
By BEN SEIDLER
It's not just a fashionista's fantasy: Pret-a-Portea at the Berkeley Hotel in the Knightsbridge section of London really does serve edible versions of designer collections, updated every six months for a fashionable high tea.
By SUZY MENKES
Jourdan Dunn, 19, picked up the award as model of the year at the British Fashion Awards last week.
By SUZY MENKES
"Sonia Rykiel, Exhibition" at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs (until April 19) celebrates 40 years of the designer who was part of a generation that rejected the staid grandeur of haute couture and made prêt-à-porter for the newly emerging, dynamic woman of the 1960s.
By SUZY MENKES
Wearing a crown of his own design, Stephen Jones, milliner extraordinaire, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the model and fashion personality Erin O'Connor at the British Fashion Awards.
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Swedish fashion retailer H&M AB on Tuesday said Britain's Matthew Williamson will design its summer guest collection.
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Jennifer Aniston could watch herself on a TV, a movie screen, an iPhone or a laptop. But mostly she tunes herself out — while everyone else tunes her in.
By - SUZY MENKES
The challenge for the de Young museum in San Francisco, which is hosting "Yves Saint Laurent" until April 5, is to put this great body of YSL work in context.
By - SUZY MENKES
Jeanne Lanvin's collection of 31 artworks, which reads like a list of Impressionism to early Modernism, goes on sale at Christie's in Paris on Dec. 1.
By SUZY MENKES
The elegant shop that Yohji Yamamoto opened last week in Paris marks a fashion moment: a flagship on the cusp of haute couture and hip style for the Japanese designer, and the consecration of a discreet new shopping street - the Rue du Mont Thabor.
By SUZY MENKES
Romeo Gigli, the Italian designer who defined the softer and poetic side of the brash 1980s, is back. But not under his own name, which no longer belongs to him, but a combination of words that the cognoscenti will recognize immediately: io ipse idem. With Italian investment, the renaisssance was announced on Thursday.
By VICTORIA GOMELSKY
What global financial meltdown? Ready or not, here comes a new wave of jewel-encrusted accessories.
By VICTORIA GOMELSKY
With an eye toward diversifying, jewelers are giving their trade a whole new context: deluxe designer bags, embellished with precious metals and stones.
By KATIE WEISMAN
From Saks to Bergdorf Goodman, from Tiffany to Harry Winston, creative geniuses try to outdo each other with window displays that delight the eye and lift the spirit.
By GENEVIEVE ROBERTS
From the very rich to the simply well off, customers who need shopping done quickly can find people to do it for them.
By ALICE PFEIFFER
From Saks Fifth Avenue in New York to Mitsukoshi in Tokyo, and several places in between, luxurious pet departments are flourishing.
By NAZANIN LANKARANI
Feeding an insatiable appetite for novelty, perfumers now bring more than 300 new scents to market every year - more in a single year than the total number of new fragrances introduced in the 1970s and 1980s combined.
By SUZY MENKES
As China sets out to rebuild its artistic heritage, support is coming from an unexpected source: The global luxury industry. The big brands have targeted the country - both for exhibition displays and for collaborations with contemporary artists.
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The International Herald Tribune has decided to postpone its annual luxury conference, which was to have taken place at the Imperial Hotel, New Delhi, from Dec. 2-4.
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