The new 10, 800-square-foot store, the largest of Douglas’ 29 locations in Berlin, is part of the German capital city’s new Upper Eastside residential-commercial development area that’s luring investors and shoppers.

The Douglas store occupies a key location at the corner of Friedrichstrasse and the historic boulevard Unter den Linden, a tourist mecca.

It’s also steps away from a luxury shopping stretch awash in high-end stores such as Escada, Herms,…

According to Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, from around February 2000 to February 2007, MJI used an intermediary to pay Jackson cash and goods valued in excess of $35,000 to allegedly get preferential booking for the armory space during New York Fashion Week.

The civil settlement with the New York State Attorney General’s office was reached in…

“This is the world’s most liberated club,” said owner Steve Ostrow,…

The area’s budget for worldwide fashion promotion of apparel is only roughly 500,000 euros, or $638,850 at current exchange rates, confirmed Michael Wieting, director of Extenda’s New York office. “The budget is negotiable,” he added. “If the project proves worthwhile, we’ll do our best — and better.”

Part of the heightened-exposure plan, Wieting…

“Stay true to yourself,” the actress said. “As with any form of the arts, that’s the most important thing.”

Theron could have been describing her friend John Galliano, whom she later introduced on stage. He gave an inspiring and extensive speech about his career, from his childhood in Gibraltar to his work as a dresser at London’s
National Theater, studying at Central Saint Martins and, fresh out of school, landing his first…

The packaging trade show, which ran from Oct. 28 to 31, saw a spike in attendance to 6,478 visitors, a 5.8 percent increase over 2007.

“The mood is cautiously positive,” said Christophe Czajka Luxe Pack president, “we are determined to deliver on the quality of the business and prove the show can only be stronger in a moment of crisis.”

To that end organizers jam-packed the fair’s four-day run with 30 conferences and launched a new workshop on packaging design trends.

Among…

The company on Monday said it had ended its association with British design couple Mary Eley and Wakako Kishimoto, known together as Eley Kishimoto.

The duo joined Cacharel in November 2007, and showed their first proper runway collection in October here, earning mixed reviews. Spring 2009 was their final collection for the house.

They had been tapped to replace another British designer couple, Suzanne Clements and Inacio Ribeiro, who spent seven years trying to rev up Cacharel.

The French company billed the split…

Featuring some 200 outfits, the exhibition underscores the manner in which Rykiel crafted one of fashion’s most readily identifiable signatures. It also reveals the influence she had on the generation of designers who came after she founded her business in 1968, said Olivier Saillard, who organized the exhibit.

“Rykiel did minimalism before the Japanese and turned clothes inside out before the Belgians,”…

For most of us, the world can appear small while peering through a camera’s viewfinder.

But when top fashion photographers stare through their lenses, they see unlimited opportunity to elevate their subjects—and themselves—to larger-than-life status.

Such enviable power is wielded by an insular group of global photographers who have shaped beauty’s collective visual vocabulary by lensing nearly all of the high-profile images on which we’ve laid eyes during the last…