Rome looks for revival on global fashion stage
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When native designer Valentino packed his bags for the catwalks of Paris 17 years ago, Rome's fall from the pinnacle of fashion glory appeared complete.
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Fashion Wire Daily - All roads for anyone who was anyone in the world of fashion and elegance led to Rome this past weekend for the opulently operatic and sophisticatedly self-indulgent celebration of designer Valentino&#39;s 45th anniversary.
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London Fashion Week, the country's biggest style extravaganza, opened to the sounds of jazz legend Josephine Baker crooning her love to Paris in an arch message that forward fashion has moved elsewhere.
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A model presents a creation designed by Italian fashion designer Stephano Pilati for Yves Saint Laurent&#39;s spring-summer 2005 ready-to-wear fashion collection presented Sunday, Oct. 10, 2004 in Paris.
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The designer Valentino has been busy this weekend reaping the rewards of 45 years of being Romeâs most glamorous name.
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London Fashion Week sashayed into action  on Monday with a clutch of feted young designers promising to  boost its star status on the industry's map.
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The designer outlet concept, long popular in the United States, has swept through Europe over the last several years.
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The Rome Film Festival opened its second edition Thursday, harkening back to the Eternal City's 1960s cinematic heyday.
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Age crackdown on fashion industry aims to end 'size zero' crisis.
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Desperately seeking Madonna. Hundreds of Italians have gathered in front of her hotel and rushed to Rome's most chic street in hopes of getting a glimpse of the American pop star, who is to perform in a concert Sunday night at the Olympic stadium.
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Italy's fashion capital is in a tizzy   over a ban on overly thin models at Madrid's fashion week,   fearing it could be next with its own catwalk extravaganza less   than two weeks away.
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Britain produces some of the world's top fashion designers -- Stella McCartney and Alexander McQueen among them -- but many of the best fly off for Paris, New York or Milan as soon as their star has risen.
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In Italy's banking capital fashion asserts its tough, often intoxication vitality.
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The global fashion industry is under siege from critics who want skinny models off catwalks, and with New York's fashion week in full swing the focus on models' health has shifted to the American capital of fashion.
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At New York Fashion Week on Monday, everything old felt new again.
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Lo stilista presenta la sua collezione a Milano
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Urban creativity versus rural gentility is the story of the shows that opened the London fashion season. There are spare, sharp, often hyper-sexy clothes that go with the Brit/art and music scene, and are