PARIS (AFP) - Raf Simons headlined day one of the Paris menswear shows on Wednesday, sending out an urbane, playful look that showed a lot of leg, days before his hotly awaited debut as the top designer at Dior. All but a handful of the Belgian designer‘s looks were built around bermuda shorts cut high on the thigh, and slashed at one side, paired with clean white shirts and single-breasted jack...

An elderly woman recently discovered several pieces of her own jewelry in an auction catalogue six years after she lost them. The Duchess of Argyll, 68, found three pieces of her jewelry in a catalogue for Scottish auction house Lyon and Turnbull after she lost them at Glasgow Airport in 2006. “I’m absolutely amazed,” the Duchess said. “I thought that after six years I’d lost them forever.” Th...

PARIS (AP) ― For the first time in its history, the French capital’s iconic Louvre Museum opened up its storied arcades Tuesday to fashion: a catwalk show by Italian house Salvatore Ferragamo. Proof enough of the unique setting of this collection lay with the celebrity-filled front row ― from actresses Freida Pinto and Leighton Meester to Oscar-winner Hilary Swank. The mid-season resort show wa...

NEW YORK (AP) ― When you wake up as Tommy Hilfiger, the day’s possibilities are almost endless. Maybe you’ll be jetting off to Paris or Hong Kong on business, or to the lovely island of Mystique for pleasure. Really, if he wanted to, he could just sit in his superluxe apartment at The Plaza Hotel overlooking Central Park, arranging the dozens of upward-facing pencils that sit on his desk. That’...

The beginning of summer always seems to be accompanied by an onslaught of sunscreens. The market is crowded with lotions and sprays, powders and lip balms, and, increasingly, multi-tasking products with inventive application methods that are touted for their ability to do more than just block the UVA and UVB rays that lead to sunburns, skin cancer and premature aging of the skin. Indeed, many of...

NEW YORK (AP) ― If it’s got his name on it, Lenny Kravitz says he has been involved in it 100 percent, so when you see his stamp on the new collection of Toms shoes, know the Bahamas beach-meets-modern architecture influence is genuine. “If I’m in, I’m in it all the way,’’ Kravitz says. The singer got involved in designing the shoes with Toms founder Blake Mycoskie at the urging of his daughter...

VERSAILLES, France (AP) ― As some of the world’s most glamorous women prepare for the Cannes Film Festival later this week, Karl Lagerfeld has shown again that he’s a step ahead of the game on the Riviera’s red carpet. The celebrated designer rolled out a baroque-tinged cruise collection on Monday at the seat of French opulence, Versailles Palace, with film stars and other celebrities such as ac...