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Acclaimed British fashion designer Luella Bartley said Tuesday that her company has stopped trading because of financial problems.
Owning more than 3,000 dresses, many of them designer, many from a era long gone, is a dream for most women.

For women in Tanzania's humid Dar es Salaam port city, the "kanga" is must-have material, functioning as an everyday wraparound dress, bath towel, shawl and, when ragged, dish cloth and mop too.

Musician Rihanna accepts a 2009 Glamour Women of the Year award during the magazines annual award show in New York November 9, 2009.

Madonna is to front Dolce & Gabbana's spring/summer 2010 campaign, reports People.
No one wanted Anina Trepte to come to China. The agents and designers she was working for in Paris told her it would ruin her career.

Rihanna joined U.S. first lady Michelle Obama, British fashion designer Stella McCartney and nine others on Monday to be honored as "Women of the Year" after the R&B singer took a public stand on domestic violence.
Sylvie Razafindrakoto, whose divorce was finalized three weeks ago, came looking for tips on coping with difficult teenagers as a newly single mother.

Never mind the recession. Workers can still find ways to do less and get away with it, says the author of a tongue-in-cheek look at the workplace, "How to Relax Without Getting the Axe."

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama may be in for a nasty surprise when he reaches the final pages of the best-selling book Life of Pi, which he said on Monday he was reading with his 11-year-old daughter Malia.
In an interview with Reuters, Obama called it a "wonderful book" that was enthralling his daughter.
"There are whole chapters that really have to do with Hinduism, Christianity. There is a lot of philosophical stuff in there, but for some reason she (Malia) is hanging in there," he said.
The prize-winning book by Yann Martel centers on the journey of Pi Patel, who is cast adrift in a lifeboat with a tiger, a hyena, a zebra and an orangutan after a ship carrying him and his family from India to Canada sinks.
There is a battle for survival and eventually it is just Pi and the tiger left in the small boat.
But the fantasy adventure is revealed to possibly have been a fabrication by the narrator in the last pages of the book, with the real story emerging of a horrific tale of cannibalism and murder.

"'Twilight' here! We got your red hot 'Twilight' angle heah!"
Menswear design has always been weaker than for women, but China Fashion Week 2009 was determined to correct this.
More than 40 fashion shows by 50 brands and 220 designers went to China Fashion Week Spring Summer 2010 at D Park, Beijing House and Beijing Hotel, and all the talk was about Chinese elements.

Despite having twice taken her designs to the center stage of Paris fashion, Ma Ke remains an exception in the world of fashion and a mystery to the media and admirers.

Some women strode the catwalk in vicious spiked bracelets and body armor.
Mariah Carey’s erratic behavior bar is set high.