Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury has been inundated with orders for the final installment about the boy wizard and hopes a book on billionaire investor Warren Buffett will become one of its new best-sellers. Demand for British author J.K.
Apparel designer Liz Claiborne, who founded a namesake women's sportswear label that grew into a multibillion dollar global empire, has died at age 78, the company said on Wednesday.
Lunch with Warren Buffett will again prove a costly feast. The annual charity lunch the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
Milan Fashion run of men's fashion shows for next summer displayed brazen irreverence Monday, June 25 with Moschino's fluorescent tones, Gucci's slimline tweeds and John Richmond's gangster chic suits.
A week after Italian designer Gianfranco Ferre died the fashion house that bears his name on Sunday, 24th presented its summer show for men to a tearful audience that gave him a posthumous ovation.
Milan kicks off a hectic five-day run of men's fashion shows for next summer on Saturday, June 23rd under a sombre cloud following the sudden death of leading Italian designer GianFranco Ferre.
Burberry, the British maker of luxury clothes and accessories, announced on Wednesday, June 20th that its former chief executive Rose Marie Bravo would step down as group vice chairman on July 1.
France raised the prospect of a repeat of Europe's "Bra Wars" of 2005 on Tuesday by saying it would push to extend quotas on Chinese textile imports that are due to expire at the end of this year.
Dawn had barely broken and 200 fashionistas were beginning to gather for the opening of London's newest shopping experience. From 4 a.m.
Household products and cosmetics giant Procter and Gamble has signed an agreement to build a massive cosmetics plant in central Poland, a spokeswoman for the Polish subsidiary of the US multinational said Wednesday June 13th.
With fur back in fashion, the illegal fur trade is also on the rise, wildlife crime experts said Thursday June 7th at a world forum in The Hague on regulating wildlife commerce. "Unfortunately, fashion takes cycles and fur is back in," said John Sellar, a wildlife crime expert.
Valentino Garavani, whose luxurious dresses have adorned the Hollywood set and European royalty for over 40 years, looks set to see his brand change hands for the third time in a decade.
Swiss construction group Implenia could be on the radar screen for a takeover, a major shareholder of the Swiss company was quoted as saying in a Sunday newspaper.
Bekaert BERTt.BR, a steel cord and wire maker, will close its carding business in Cleckheaton, which now employs 57 people, it said on Wednesday.
Private equity firm Permira PERM.UL is in exclusive talks to buy more than half of famed Italian fashion house Valentino V.MI, it said on Friday, dimming the chances of a bid battle with U.S. rival Carlyle.
