TOP FASHION NEWS

• Taiwan firm uses recycled paper in shoemaking

  AP – Fri Nov 20, 1:14 am ET
  AP

  TAIPEI, Taiwan - Confronted with an ever-growing pile of old newspapers, Taiwanese fashion designer Colin Lin came up with the idea of using them to make shoes and tote bags for her environmentally friendly footwear company. Full Story »

• Make trendy face masks to fight flu: Russia official

  Reuters – Wed Nov 18, 7:32 am ET

  MOSCOW (Reuters Life!) - Russia's top health official has proposed that the country's fashion designers create trendy face masks to combat swine flu, his spokeswoman said on Wednesday. Full Story »

• Claudia Schiffer plans to create own fashion label

  Reuters – Tue Nov 17, 1:38 pm ET

  BERLIN (Reuters Life!) - After lending her image to fashion designers for more than two decades, supermodel Claudia Schiffer says she is now ready to create her own fashion business, which could include cashmere wares and handbags. Full Story »

• Couture comes to the tea cup through luxury blends

  Reuters – Thu Nov 12, 2:05 am ET
  Reuters

  SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) - Haute couture has come to the tea cup, with a luxury tea retailer launching collections to complement the colors, scents, trends and tastes of each season. Full Story »

• British fashion label Luella stops trading

  Reuters – Wed Nov 11, 10:00 am ET

  LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Luella Bartley, the young British designer whose quirky yet feminine designs have adorned model Kate Moss and singer Lily Allen, has become the latest fashion casualty of the recession. Full Story »

• If couture could talk: collection charts women's lives

  Reuters – Wed Nov 11, 12:46 am ET

  SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) - Owning more than 3,000 dresses, many of them designer, many from a era long gone, is a dream for most women. For Sydney-based fashion curator Charlotte Smith, it's a reality. Full Story »

• Saint Laurent's everyday objects to be auctioned

  AP – Tue Nov 10, 2:26 pm ET
  AP

  PARIS - The 18th century porcelain Yves Saint Laurent ate from, a Cartier watch he used to wear, the leopard-print couches and gilded chairs he lounged on: It's all to hit the auction blocks as the late French couturier's longtime partner liquidates their art-and-knicknack-filled residences. Full Story »

• British designer Luella Bartley stops trading

  AP – Tue Nov 10, 12:21 pm ET

  LONDON - Acclaimed British fashion designer Luella Bartley said Tuesday that her company has stopped trading because of financial problems. Full Story »

• Fashion show hails kanga as east Africa's kimono

  Reuters – Tue Nov 10, 10:42 am ET
  Reuters

  DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters Life!) - For women in Tanzania's humid Dar es Salaam port city, the "kanga" is must-have material, functioning as an everyday wraparound dress, bath towel, shawl and, when ragged, dish cloth and mop too. Full Story »

• Rihanna joins Michelle Obama as "Women of the Year"

  Reuters – Tue Nov 10, 7:42 am ET
  Reuters

  NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Rihanna joined U.S. first lady Michelle Obama, British fashion designer Stella McCartney and nine others on Monday to be honored as "Women of the Year" after the R&B singer took a public stand on domestic violence. Full Story »

• Maya Angelou, Rihanna among Glamour mag's honorees

  AP – Tue Nov 10, 7:40 am ET
  AP

  NEW YORK - Even for a venue as grand as New York's Carnegie Hall, there was a pretty dazzling concentration of star power at Glamour magazine's Women of the Year awards.