An Italian conman who allegedly swindled freebies from some of Paris's top hotels and restaurants by posing as a rich aristocrat has been arrested, police said on Tuesday, July 31th.
A strike by thousands of miners employed in South Africa by the world's biggest diamond producer De Beers was called off on Tuesday, July 31th after they accepted a new management pay offer, both sides said.
Nicolas Sarkozy, the newly elected president of France, is now rubbing well-tailored shoulders with Hollywood heartthrob George Clooney, at least among this year's Vanity Fair best-dressed list.
ICI has rejected an improved 7.8 billion-pound takeover proposal from Dutch rival Akzo Nobel, saying the 8 percent increase in the offer price is not enough.
Queen Elizabeth II's wedding dress and gifts from dignitaries including Mahatma Gandhi are going on display as part of an exhibition about her wedding day 60 years ago which opens in London Saturday, July 28th.
Sixty year old Paola Mazzini is no celebrity designer. But after more than a decade in jail, the drugs convict and a dozen fellow prisoners are looking to break into the world of glamour by launching their own clothing brand.
Shares in French luxury goods group LVMH rose on Friday, July 27th despite first-half results at the lower end of expectations, but the group stood by its objectives for the rest of the year.
PPR, the French luxury goods empire, said on Thursday, July 26 that second-quarter sales had risen by 18,1 % to 4,793 euros on a 12-month comparison, driven by its acquisition of German sportsgear maker Puma. Sales grew by five.
Britain's advertising watchdog on Wednesday rapped cosmetics firm L'Oreal for a misleading television advert for mascara with Hollywood actress Penelope Cruz.
Finnish customs arrested five European and African citizens as they were trying to smuggle fake brand watches and mobile phone components destined to the Spanish and Polish markets, the Finnish authorities said on Wednesday, July 25th.
South Korea's Samsung Electronics said July, Tuesday 14th it is considering an arrangement with Italian luxury goods designer Giorgio Armani to develop new premium products.
German fashion house Hugo Boss may soon be on the look-out for acquisitions to grow and wants to buy a second brand name, the group's chairman Bruno Saelzer said in a newspaper interview published on Tuesday, July 24th.
It all starts with one simple sentence, spoken almost in a whisper, but which has a thunderous effect. A female police officer deployed in Tehran's latest moral crackdown tells a woman that her manto (overcoat) is too short and infringes Iranian Islamic dress rules.
Iran is to launch a new crackdown Monday, July 23 on slack dressing that targets both men and women whose clothing and haircuts are deemed to be unIslamic, police said.
French actor Gerard Depardieu will be honored at this year's tribute of the Film Society of the Lincoln Center which recognizes the extraordinary career of a distinguished film artist each year.
