© 2008 AFP - Models clad in kimono-inspired dresses and sarong skirts influenced by the Orient strut down the ramp at India's premier fashion event in New Delhi.

Police have seized more than 230,000 fake shirts, sports shoes and other fashion items shipped from China in the biggest-ever haul of its kind in Spain, the economy ministry said Thursday March 11th.

Growing international interest in India because of its booming economy has infused a new confidence among local designers showcasing the country's crafts at the ongoing fashion week.

Oscar-winning director Ang Lee has come out in support of Chinese actress Tang Wei, whose advertisements have been blacklisted in China following her steamy turn in Lee's "Lust, Caution.

As Western fashion brands look to Asia to provide cheap skilled labour, two Hong Kong-based designers are bucking the trend.

Investment funds that have ploughed tens of billions into commodities are now sniffing around Australia's small wool futures market for a new play as surging food prices begin to reduce land for grazing.

Singapore's GIC sovereign wealth fund is to take a 14.3 percent stake in the Benetton family's holding company, Luxembourg-based Sintonia SA, for one billion euros (1.53 billion dollars), Sintonia said Tuesday March 11th.

For decades, China's massive workforce of factory hands and construction workers had little choice but to work long hours in often poor conditions for pitifully low salaries.

Major department store chains reported lower February same-store sales on Thursday as consumers spent less on home goods and women's apparel in the weaker U.S. economy. J.C. Penney Co Inc reported a 6.

Warren Buffett, the famed U.S. investor who heads Berkshire Hathaway Inc, replaced his friend and Microsoft Corp founder Bill Gates as the richest man in the world, Forbes magazine said on Wednesday.

Sales of a bracelet will go towards a U.N. fund to combat violence against women under a plan announced on Tuesday by the United Nations, the Avon cosmetics company and movie star Reese Witherspoon. Avon Products Inc.

Sales of a bracelet will go towards a U.N. fund to combat violence against women under a plan announced on Tuesday by the United Nations, the Avon cosmetics company and movie star Reese Witherspoon.

Warren Buffett, the famed U.S. investor who heads Berkshire Hathaway Inc, replaced his friend and Microsoft Corp founder Bill Gates as the richest man in the world, Forbes magazine said on Wednesday.

Platinum prices spiked to an all-time peak close to 2,300 dollars on Tuesday March 4th as the white metal got fresh support on the back of a weak dollar and supply worries in key producer South Africa.

Whether it be worldwide obesity, seniors craving to be juniors, or the return of form-fitting frocks, nip-and-tuck lingerie is on the up and up, fixing insides to look good outside.