The French agency devoted to combating discrimination has determined that the burqa inhibits integration into French society.

More than 35 young women wearing tight trousers were arrested in South Sudan for disturbing the peace, senior police officials said.

There is very little freedom in the Balenciaga collection for a personalized expression, and that has been true for a while with Nicolas Ghesquiere’s work, though this season the attitude seemed more inflexible and emotionally cold.

An appeals court convicted six people on Thursday of selling T-shirts to aid Colombian and Palestinian extremist organizations.

A simple shoe popular among Chinese laborers gets a style makeover for the Western consumer.

Sunday marked just about the only time that Berlin, an aspiring fashion hub and perennial economic also-ran, could safely claim it was the center of the fashion world.

Western luxury brands were restricted to selling their goods in stores in the lobbies of high-end hotels, but that will change next month.

Whether designers have been looking at the same art, reading the same books or just wishing they were anyplace but here, their spring 2009 men?s collections seem to have hit the same wall with the modern exception of Raf Simons.

France?s powerful and glamorous held funeral services on Thursday for Yves Saint Laurent, who was regarded by some as the finest fashion-designer of the last half of the 20th century.

The world of French power and glitter held funeral services on Thursday for Yves Saint Laurent, who was regarded by some as the finest fashion-designer of the last half of the 20th century.